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We theoretically examine the spin-transfer torque in the presence of spin-orbit interaction (SOI) at impurities in a ferromagnetic metal on the basis of linear response theory. We obtained, in addition to the usual spin-transfer torque, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Junya Shibata , Hiroshi Kohno

Antiferromagnets with vanishingly small (or zero) magnetization are interesting candidates for spintronics applications. In the present paper we propose two models for description of the current-induced phenomena in antiferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-03 Helen Gomonay , Vadim Loktev

The dynamics of current-induced motion of a magnetic domain wall in a quasi-one-dimensional ferromagnet with both easy-axis and easy-plane anisotropy, is studied. We pay a special attention to the case of a sharp domain wall, and calculate…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 V. K. Dugaev , V. R. Vieira , P. D. Sacramento , J. Barnas , M. A. N. Araujo , J. Berakdar

Spin-orbit coupling enables charge currents to give rise to spin currents and vice versa, which has applications in non-volatile magnetic memories, miniature microwave oscillators, thermoelectric converters and Terahertz devices. In the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Angie Davidson , Vivek P. Amin , Wafa S. Aljuaid , Paul M. Haney , Xin Fan

We introduce the general formalism to describe spin torques induced by the supercurrents injected from the adjacent superconducting electrodes into the spin-textured ferromagnets. By considering the adiabatic limit for the equal-spin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-08-28 I. V. Bobkova , A. M. Bobkov , M. A. Silaev

We have measured the statistical properties of magnetic reversal in nanomagnets driven by a spin-polarized current. Like reversal induced by a magnetic field, spin-transfer-driven reversal near room temperature exhibits the properties of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. B. Myers , F. J. Albert , J. C. Saneky , E. Bonet , R. A. Buhrman , D. C. Ralph

Joint influence of two effects, namely, nonequilibrium spin injection by current, and current induced surface torque, on spin-valve type ferromagnetic metallic junctions is considered theoretically. The CPP configuration is assumed. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 R. J. Elliott , E. M. Epshtein , Yu. V. Gulyaev , P. E. Zilberman

When a spin-polarized current flows through a ferromagnet, the local magnetization receives a spin torque. Two consequences of this spin torque are studied. First, the uniformly magnetized ferromagnet becomes unstable if a sufficiently…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 Z. Li , J. He , S. Zhang

First principles calculations show that electric fields applied to ferromagnets generate spin currents flowing perpendicularly to the electric field. Reduced symmetry in these ferromagnets enables a wide variety of such spin currents.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 V. P. Amin , Junwen Li , M. D. Stiles , P. M. Haney

We theoretically study the current-induced dynamics of a domain wall in a ferromagnetic nanotube by developing a theory for the orbital angular momentum of a domain wall and the current-induced torque on it. Specifically, a domain wall with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-13 Seungho Lee , Se Kwon Kim

We show that an unpolarized electric current incident perpendicular to the plane of a thin ferromagnet can excite a spin-wave instability transverse to the current direction if source and drain contacts are not symmetric. The instability,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. L. Polianski , P. W. Brouwer

We develop a macroscopic description of the current-induced torque due to spin transfer in a layered system consisting of two ferromagnetic layers separated by a nonmagnetic layer. The description is based on i) the classical spin diffusion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 J. Barnas , A. Fert , M. Gmitra , I. Weymann , V. K. Dugaev

We propose a spin-mechanical device to control and detect spin currents by mechanical torque. Our hybrid nano-electro-mechanical device, which contains a nanowire with a ferromagnetic-nonmagnetic interface, is designed to measure or induce…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Mohanty , G. Zolfagharkhani , S. Kettemann , P. Fulde

An experimental protocol is presented that allows the entropy generated by spin-transfer to be measured. The effect of a strong spin-polarized current injected on a ferromagnetic nanostructure is investigated with focusing on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-05 J. -E. Wegrowe , Q. Anh Nguyen , T. L. Wade

Noncollinear antiferromagnets, such as Mn$_3$Sn and Mn$_3$Ir, were recently shown to be analogous to ferromagnets in that they have a large anomalous Hall effect. Here we show that these materials are similar to ferromagnets in another…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-01 Jakub Zelezny , Yang Zhang , Claudia Felser , Binghai Yan

We theoretically study the current-induced spin torque in antiferromagnetic tunnel junctions, composed of two semi-infinite antiferromagnetic layers separated by a tunnel barrier, in both clean and disordered regimes. We find that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 H. Saidaoui , A. Manchon , X. Waintal

We predict that the magnetization direction of a ferromagnet can be reversed by the spin-transfer torque accompanying spin-polarized thermoelectric heat currents. We illustrate the concept by applying a finite-element theory of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Moosa Hatami , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Qinfang Zhang , Paul J. Kelly

Current induced spin-orbit torques have been studied in ferromagnetic nanowires made of 20 nm thick Co/Pd multilayers with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. Using Hall voltage and lock-in measurements, it is found that upon injection of an…

We consider an antiferromagnetic insulator that is in contact with a metal. Spin accumulation in the metal can induce spin-transfer torques on the staggered field and on the magnetization in the antiferromagnet. These torques relate to spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Sverre A. Gulbrandsen , Arne Brataas

In metallic ferromagnets, the spin-transfer torque and spin-motive force are known to exhibit a reciprocal relationship. Recent experiments on ferromagnets with strong spin-orbit coupling have revealed a rich complexity in the interaction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Kjetil M. D. Hals , Arne Brataas