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We investigate the interplay between spin currents and spin waves in nanofabricated Permalloy waveguides with geometrical constrictions. Using propagating spin-wave spectroscopy, micromagnetic simulations, and analytical modeling, we…

Direct observations of current-induced domain-wall propagation by spin-polarized scanning electron microscopy are reported. Current pulses move head-to-head as well as tail-to-tail walls in sub-micrometer Fe_{20}Ni_{80} wires in the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Klaui , P. -O. Jubert , R. Allenspach , A. Bischof , J. A. C. Bland , G. Faini , U. Rudiger , C. A. F. Vaz , L. Vila , C. Vouille

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

A vortex-antivortex dipole can be generated due to current with in-plane spin-polarization, flowing into a magnetic element, which then behaves as a spin transfer oscillator. Its dynamics is analyzed using the Landau-Lifshitz equation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Stavros Komineas

Influence of the spin-transfer torque on the vortex state magnetic nanodisk is studied numerically via Slonczewski-Berger mechanism. The existence of a critical current is determined for the case of same-directed electrical current, its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Oleksii M. Volkov , Volodymyr P. Kravchuk , Denis D. Sheka , Yuri Gaididei

A magnetic vortex is a curling magnetic structure realized in a ferromagnetic disk, which is a promising candidate of a memory cell for future nonvolatile data storage devices. Thus, understanding of the stability and dynamical behaviour of…

We reverse the magnetic vortex curling direction of ferromagnetic nanodisk by applying a circular Oersted field. The nanodisk is fabricated without breaking its symmetry. The Oersted field is induced by passing current through an atomic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-01 Wen-Ming Ju , Mark Tuominen , Nihar Pradhan , Jessica Bickel , Kathy Aidala

When probing nuclear spins in materials on the nanometer scale, random fluctuations of the spin polarization will exceed the mean Boltzmann polarization for sample volumes below about (100nm)^3. In this work, we use magnetic resonance force…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-01-14 C. L. Degen , M. Poggio , H. J. Mamin , D. Rugar

Tunneling spin transport characteristics of a magnetic skyrmion are described theoretically in magnetic scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). The spin-polarized charge current in STM (SP-STM) and tunneling spin transport vector quantities,…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-09 Krisztián Palotás , Levente Rózsa , László Szunyogh

Ultrafast demagnetization of magnetic layers pumped by a femtosecond laser pulse is accompanied by a nonthermal spin-polarized current of hot electrons. These spin currents are studied here theoretically in a spin valve with noncollinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-26 Pavel Baláž , Martin Žonda , Karel Carva , Pablo Maldonado , Peter M. Oppeneer

We consider a quasi one-dimensional configuration consisting of two small pieces of ferromagnetic material separated by a metallic one and contacted by two metallic leads. A spin-polarized current is injected from one lead. Our goal is to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-13 J. Peguiron , M. -S. Choi , C. Bruder

We consider magnetic Weyl metals as a platform to achieve current control of magnetization textures with transport currents, utilizing their underlying band geometry. We show that the transport current in a Weyl semimetal produces an axial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 J. G. Yang , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , D. A. Pesin

Understanding and controlling vortex motion in superconductors are important both for suppressing dissipation in superconducting devices and for device applications that exploit vortices. In this work, we quantitatively imaged the stray…

In ferromagnetic trilayers, a spin-orbit-induced spin current can have a spin polarization of which direction is deviated from that for the spin Hall effect. Recently, magnetization switching in ferromagnetic trilayers has been proposed and…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-07 Dong-Kyu Lee , Kyung-Jin Lee

Control over quantum systems is typically achieved by time-dependent electric or magnetic fields. Alternatively, electronic spins can be controlled by spin-polarized currents. Here we demonstrate coherent driving of a single spin by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-26 Stepan Kovarik , Richard Schlitz , Aishwarya Vishwakarma , Dominic Ruckert , Pietro Gambardella , Sebastian Stepanow

Our aim is to study the polarization of thermal dust emission to see if the alignment of grain by radiative torques could explain the observed relation between the degree of polarization and the intensity in dense cores. Predictions are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. -M. Pelkonen , M. Juvela , P. Padoan

A type of vortex spin texture with skyrmionic core and a series of circle spin stripes was obtained in thin nanodisk of the chiral magnets with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and uniaxial anisotropy by means of micromagnetic approach and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Haifeng Du , Wei Ning , Mingliang Tian , Yuheng Zhang

In spite of the absence of a macroscopic magnetic moment, an anti-ferromagnet is spin-polarized on an atomic scale. The electric current passing through a conducting anti-ferromagnet is polarized as well, leading to spin-transfer torques…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-09-29 Yuan Xu , Shuai Wang , Ke Xia

Under the action of an alternating perpendicular magnetic field the polarity of the vortex state nanodisk can be efficiently switched. We predict the regular and chaotic dynamics of the vortex polarity and propose simple analytical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-09 Oleksandr V. Pylypovskyi , Denis D. Sheka , Volodymyr P. Kravchuk , Franz G. Mertens , Yuri Gaididei

In chiral magnets, localized topological magnetic whirls, magnetic skyrmions, can be moved by spin polarized electric currents. Upon increasing the current strength, with prospects for high-speed skyrmion motion for spintronics applications…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-22 Jan Masell , Davi R. Rodrigues , Ben F. McKeever , Karin Everschor-Sitte