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We demonstrate current-induced bipolar switching in in-plane magnetized spin-valve devices that incorporate a perpendicularly magnetized spin polarizing layer. Further, hysteretic transitions into a state with intermediate resistance occur…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Li Ye , Georg Wolf , Daniele Pinna , Gabriel D. Chaves , Andrew D. Kent

Stacked spin-vortex pairs in magnetic multilayered nanopillars, with vertical separation between the vortices small compared to the vortex core size, exhibit spin dynamics absent in individual vortices. This dynamics is nonlinear and is due…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-06 B. C. Koop , M. Gruschke , T. Descamps , A. Bondarenko , B. A. Ivanov , V. Korenivski

We use spin-torque resonance to probe simultaneously and separately the dynamics of a magnetic domain wall and of magnetic domains in a nanostripe magnetic tunnel junction. Thanks to the large associated resistance variations we are able to…

Using the self-consistent model, we present nonlocal spin-transfer effects caused by the feedback between inhomogeneous magnetization and spin-transfer torque on the current-induced magnetization dynamics in nanomagnets. The nonlocal…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-12-01 Kyung-Jin Lee

We study the dynamics of a vortex state nanodisk due to a dc spin current, perpendicular to the disk plane. The irreversible switching of the vortex polarity takes place above some threshold current. The detailed description of these…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-08-26 Denis D. Sheka , Yuri Gaididei , Franz G. Mertens

Magnetic skyrmions are promising candidates for future information technology. Here, we present a micromagnetic study of isolated skyrmions and skyrmion clusters in ferromagnetic nanodisks driven by the spin-polarized current with spatially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-16 Wenjing Jiang , Jing Xia , Xichao Zhang , Yifan Song , Chuang Ma , Hans Fangohr , G. P. Zhao , Xiaoxi Liu , Weisheng Zhao , Yan Zhou

Spin transport in magnetic tunnel junctions in the presence of spin diffusion is considered theoretically. Combining ballistic tunneling across the barrier and diffusive transport in the electrodes, we solve the spin dynamics equation in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 A Manchon , R. Matsumoto , H. Jaffres , J. Grollier

A model for a spin-torque nano-oscillator based on the self-sustained oscillation of a magnetic skyrmion is presented. The system involves a circular nanopillar geometry comprising an ultrathin film free magnetic layer with a strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 F. Garcia-Sanchez , J. Sampaio , N. Reyren , V. Cros , J. -V. Kim

We study the rectification of near-field radiative heat transfer between two InSb nano-particles due to the presence of non-reciprocal surface modes in a nearby InSb sample when an external magnetic field is applied and its dependence on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-29 Annika Ott , Svend-Age Biehs

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

We investigate the vortex excitations induced by a spin-polarized current in a magnetic nanopillar by means of micromagnetic simulations and analytical calculations. Damped motion, stationary vortex rotation and the switching of the vortex…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 A. V. Khvalkovskiy , J. Grollier , A. Dussaux , K. A. Zvezdin , V. Cros

We study the role of thermal fluctuations on the spin dynamics of a thin permalloy film with a focus on the behavior of spin torque and find that the thermally assisted spin torque results in new aspects of the magnetization dynamics. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-14 L. Chotorlishvili , Z. Toklikishvili , A. Sukhov , P. P. Horley , V. K. Dugaev , V. R. Vieira , S. Trimper , J. Berakdar

An electric current flowing in a ferromagnetic metal carries spin angular momentum, i.e. it is spin-polarized. Here, we measure the spin-wave Doppler shift induced by the transfer of angular momentum from the diffusive spin-polarized…

The spin transport characteristics of a nanowire directional electronic coupler have been evaluated theoretically via a transfer matrix approach. The application of a gate field in the region of mixing allows for control of spin current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 M. Rebello Sousa Dias , V. Lopez-Richard , G. E. Marques , S. E. Ulloa

We report time-resolved measurements of current-induced reversal of a free magnetic layer in Py/Cu/Py elliptical nanopillars at temperatures T = 4.2 K to 160 K. Comparison of the data to Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert macrospin simulations of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 N. C. Emley , I. N. Krivorotov , A. G. F. Garcia , O. Ozatay , J. C. Sankey , D. C. Ralph , R. A. Buhrman

We study the coupled magnon energy transport and collective magnetization dynamics in ferromagnets with magnetic textures. By constructing a phenomenological theory based on irreversible thermodynamics, we describe motion of domain walls by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-20 Alexey A. Kovalev , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

This article reviews the principles that govern the combined transport of spin, heat, and charge. The extensive thermodynamic quantity associated with spin transport is the magnetization; its Onsager-conjugate force is in general the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-09 Joseph P. Heremans

All-solid-state nanoscale devices capable of efficiently controlling a heat flow are crucial for advanced thermal management technologies. Here we predict a magnon-driven magnetothermal resistance (mMTR) effect in multilayers of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-03 Ping Tang , Ken-ichi Uchida , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected excitations of the magnetization vector field with promising applications in spintronics and spin-caloritronics, particularly due to their high mobility. Skyrmions can be steered by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Xi-guang Wang , L. Chotorlishvili , Guang-hua Guo , C. -L. Jia , J. Berakdar

Using the complex stereographic variable representation for the macrospin, from a study of the nonlinear dynamics underlying the generalized Landau-Lifshitz(LL) equation with Gilbert damping, we show that the spin-transfer torque is…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-12-30 S. Murugesh , M. Lakshmanan