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Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. A. Katine , F. J. Albert , R. A. Buhrman , E. B. Myers , D. C. Ralph

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 current-driven domain wall (DW) motion in cylindrical nanowires using micromagnetic simulations by implementing the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation with nonlocal spin-transfer torque in a finite difference micromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-29 Weiwei Wang , Zhaoyang Zhang , Ryan A. Pepper , Congpu Mu , Yan Zhou , Hans Fangohr

We study spin-transfer-torque driven magnetization dynamics of a perpendicular magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) nanopillar. Based on the combination of spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance and microwave spectroscopy techniques, we demonstrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-11 Kaiyuan Zhou , Lina Chen , Kequn Chi , Qingwei Fu , Zui Tao , Like Liang , Zhenyu Gao , Haotian Li , Hao Meng , Bo Liu , Tiejun Zhou , R. H. Liu

Using fully self consistent methods, we study spin transport in realistic, fabricable experimental spin valve systems consisting of two magnetic layers, a superconducting layer, and a spacer normal layer between the ferromagnets. Our…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-05-09 Evan Moen , Oriol T. Valls

The spin valve effect for the superconducting current based on the superconductor/ferromagnet proximity effect has been studied for a CoO_x/Fe1/Cu/Fe2/Cu/Pb multilayer. The magnitude of the effect $\Delta T_c$ = T_c^{AP} - T_c^{P}, where…

We report on a voltage tunable radio-frequency (RF) detector based on a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ). The spin-torque diode effect is used to excite and/or detect RF oscillations in the magnetic free layer of the MTJ. In order to reduce…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Witold Skowroński , Marek Frankowski , Jerzy Wrona , Tomasz Stobiecki , Piotr Ogrodnik , Józef Barnaś

The interaction between a spin polarized dc electrical current and spin wave modes of a cylindrical nanowire is investigated in this report. We found that close to the critical current, the uniform mode is suppressed, while the edge mode…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-08-20 Voicu O. Dolocan

The shape instability of magnetic domain walls under current is investigated in a ferromagnetic (Ga,Mn)(As,P) film with perpendicular anisotropy. Domain wall motion is driven by the spin transfer torque mechanism. A current density gradient…

We have employed complete micromagnetic simulations to analyze dc current driven self-oscillations of a vortex core in a spin-valve nanopillar in a perpendicular field by including the coupled effect of the spin-torque and the magnetostatic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 G. Finocchio , V. S. Pribiag , L. Torres , R. A. Buhrman , B. Azzerboni

Spin valve ultrafast spin injection devices are described: an amplifier, a frequency multiplier, and a square-law detector. Their operation is based on injection of spin polarized electrons from one ferromagnet to another through a…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 V. V. Osipov , A. M. Bratkovsky

We describe electrical detection of spin pumping in metallic nanostructures. In the spin pumping effect, a precessing ferromagnet attached to a normal-metal acts as a pump of spin-polarized current, giving rise to a spin accumulation. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. V. Costache , S. M. Watts , C. H. van der Wal , B. J. van Wees

Slow magnetic relaxation and two level fluctuations measurements under high current injection is performed in single-contacted ferromagnetic nanostructures. The magnetic configurations of the samples are described by two metastable states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. -E. Wegrowe

The spin transfer torque (STT) can lead to steady precession of magnetization without any external applied field in magnetic spin valve where the magnetic layer have very different spin diffusion length. This effect is associated with an…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 O. Boulle , V. Cros , J. Grollier , L. G. Pereira , C. Deranlot , F. Petroff , G. Faini , J. Barnas , A. Fert

In order to explain recent experiments reporting a motion of magnetic domain walls (DW) in nanowires carrying a current, we propose a modification of the spin transfer torque term in the Landau-Lifchitz-Gilbert equation. We show that it…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-24 A. Thiaville , Y. Nakatani , J. Miltat , Y Suzuki

The responses of the electrical current and the current-induced spin transfer torque (CISTT) to an ac bias in addition to a dc bias in a magnetic tunnel junction are investigated by means of the time-dependent nonquilibrium Green function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Zhen-Gang Zhu , Gang Su , Qing-Rong Zheng , Biao Jin

Motivated by experimental developments in non-Kramers spin ice materials and the unclear role of disorder therein, we study the impact of random transverse fields on the dynamics of correlated magnetic systems. We model the effect of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-17 Yufei Pei , Claudio Castelnovo , Roderich Moessner

We investigate the dynamics of domain wall in ferromagnetic nanowire with spin-transfer torque. The critical current condition is obtained analytically. Below the critical current, we get the static domain wall solution which shows that the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-12-30 Zai-Dong Li , Qiu-Yan Li , X. R. Wang , W. M. Liu , J. Q. Liang , Guangsheng Fu

We have studied the current-induced displacement of a domain wall (DW) in the permalloy (Py) layer of a Co/Cu/Py spin valve structure at zero and very small applied field. The displacement is in opposite direction for opposite dc currents,…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Grollier , P. Boulenc , V. Cros , A. Hamzic , A. Vaures , A. Fert , G. Faini

It is experimentally shown that the critical current for onset of spin-torque instability in current-perpendicular-to-plane spin-valves can be strongly enhanced using "synthetic ferrimagnet" free-layers of form FM1/Ru/FM2 (FM=ferrromagnet).…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Neil Smith , Stefan Maat , Matthew J. Carey , Jeffrey R. Childress