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Abstract We study the temperature dependence of the absorption of microwaves by random-anisotropy magnets. It is governed by strong metastability due to the broad distribution of energy barriers separating different spin configurations. At…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-14 D. A. Garanin , E. M. Chudnovsky

The transfer of spin angular momentum to a nanomagnet from a spin polarized current provides an efficient means of controlling the magnetization direction in nanomagnets. A unique consequence of this spin torque is that the spontaneous…

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We study how a population of spin waves can be characterized from the analysis of the electrical microwave noise delivered by an inductive antenna placed in its vicinity. The measurements are conducted on a synthetic antiferromagnetic thin…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-19 T. Devolder , S. -M. Ngom , A. Mouhoub , J. Létang , J. -V. Kim , P. Crozat , J. -P. Adam , A. Solignac , C. Chappert

The production of a stochastic background of gravitational waves is a fundamental prediction of any cosmological inflationary model. The features of such a signal encode unique information about the physics of the Early Universe and beyond,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-05 Maria Chiara Guzzetti , Nicola Bartolo , Michele Liguori , Sabino Matarrese

The past few years have seen an increasing focus on energy harvesting issue, including power supply for portable electric devices. Utilize scavenging ambient energy from the environment could eliminate the need for batteries and increase…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Tenghsien Lai , Changhan Huang , Chingfu Tsou

There has been increased interest in the use and manipulation of optical fields to address challenging problems that have traditionally been approached with microwave electronics. Some examples that benefit from the low transmission loss,…

We demonstrate a room temperature spin dynamo where the precession of electron spins in ferromagnets driven by microwaves manifests itself in a collective way by generating d.c. currents. The current/power ratio is at least three orders of…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. S. Gui , N. Mecking , X. Zhou , G. Williams , C. -M. Hu

This paper reviews the state of the art in spin-torque and spin Hall effect driven nano-oscillators. After a brief introduction to the underlying physics, the authors discuss different implementations of these oscillators, their functional…

We use an optical centrifuge to deposit a controllable amount of rotational energy into dense molecular ensembles. Subsequent rotation-translation energy transfer, mediated by thermal collisions, results in the localized heating of the gas…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 A. A. Milner , A. Korobenko , V. Milner

We present a microscopic theory of spin torque due to diffusive spin currents induced by spin accumulation. The obtained expression is a natural extension of the existing one due to 'local' spin currents associated with ordinary electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Kazuhiro Hosono , Junya Shibata , Hiroshi Kohno , Yukio Nozaki

We study the generation of propagating spin waves in Ta/CoFeB waveguides by spin-orbit torque antennas and compare them to conventional inductive antennas. The spin-orbit torque was generated by a transverse microwave current across the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-31 Giacomo Talmelli , Florin Ciubotaru , Kevin Garello , Xiao Sun , Marc Heyns , Iuliana P. Radu , Christoph Adelmann , Thibaut Devolder

When a thin-film ring with supercurrent is irradiated by coherent microwave field, the field induces coherent oscillations of all the Cooper pairs involved in the supercurrent. The oscillating charged condensate will emit photons with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-07-09 Alexander Agafonov

We make measurements of power spectral density of the microwave voltage emitted by a spin torque nano-oscillator (STNO) and compare our experimental results to predictions of an analytic theory of a single-mode STNO dynamics by V. S.…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Boone , J. A. Katine , J. R. Childress , J. Zhu , X. Cheng , I. N. Krivorotov

We present results revealing microwave pulsations produced in a model of a flaring twisted solar coronal loop, without any external oscillatory driver. Two types of oscillations are identified: slowly-decaying oscillations with a period of…

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Spin pumping by a moving magnetization gives rise to an electric voltage over a spin valve. Thermal fluctuations of the magnetization manifest themselves as increased thermal voltage noise with absorption lines at the ferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-13 Jiang Xiao , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Sadamichi Maekawa , Arne Brataas

The temperature dependence of a vortex-based nano-oscillator induced by spin transfer torque (STVO) in magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJ) is considered. We obtain emitted signals with large output power and good signal coherence. Due to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-03 P. Bortolotti , A. Dussaux , J. Grollier , V. Cros , A. Fukushima , H. Kubota , K. Yakushiji , S. Yuasa , K. Ando , A. Fert

In this Article we discuss a micromagnetic modelling approach to describe the ultrafast spin-transfer torque excitation of coherent and incoherent magnons on the nanoscale. Implementing the action of a femtosecond spin current pulse…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 Henning Ulrichs , Ilya Razdolski

The expressions are received for neutron reflection from the wave resonator placed in an oscillating magnetic field. The conditions are defined for optimal values of the neutron wave resonator and magnetic field parameters. Numerical…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-07-28 Yu. V. Nikitenko

High-quality superconducting oscillators have been successfully used for quantum control and readout devices in conjunction with superconducting qubits. Also, it is well known that squeezed states can improve the accuracy of measurements to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 A. M. Zagoskin , E. Il'ichev , M. W. McCutcheon , Jeff Young , Franco Nori

Spin and charge currents can be generated by an ac voltage through a one-channel quantum wire with strong electron interactions in a static uniform magnetic field. In a certain range of low voltages, the spin current can grow as a negative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Bernd Braunecker , D. E. Feldman