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The Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert damping parameter is typically assumed to be a local quantity, independent of magnetic configuration. To test the validity of this assumption we calculate the precession damping rate of small amplitude…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Keith Gilmore , Mark D. Stiles

We argue that the non-adiabatic evolution of spin states in Stern-Gerlach apparatus can blur the manifestation of path spin entanglement. This fact introduces a contradiction to the usual perception of spin measurement even in a formally…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-03-14 Nirupam Dutta , Ansuman Dey

We studied the spin torque switching of the single free layer in the thermally activated region by numerically solving the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation. We found that the temperature dependence of the switching time of the in-plane…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-07 Tomohiro Taniguchi , Mitsutoshi Shibata , Michael Marthaler , Yasuhiro Utsumi , Hiroshi Imamura

The existence of global weak solutions to a coupled spin drift-diffusion and Maxwell-Landau-Lifshitz system is proved. The equations are considered in a two-dimensional magnetic layer structure and are supplemented with Dirichlet-Neumann…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-08-12 Nicola Zamponi , Ansgar Jüngel

A spin wave is the disturbance of intrinsic spin order in magnetic materials. In this paper, a spin wave in the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation is obtained based on the assumption that the spin wave maintains its shape while it propagates…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-25 Zhiwei Sun , Jingrun Chen

Non-damped oscillations of the magnetization vector of a ferromagnetic system subject to a spin polarized current and an external magnetic field are studied theoretically by solving the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation. It is shown that the…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 P. M. Gorley , P. P. Horley , V. K. Dugaev , J. Barnas , V. R. Vieira

The relative contributions of in-plane (damping-like) and out-of-plane (field-like) spin-transfer-torques in the magnetization switching of out-of-plane magnetized magnetic tunnel junctions (pMTJ) has been theoretically analyzed using the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-07 A. A. Timopheev , R. Sousa , M. Chshiev , L. D. Buda-Prejbeanu , B. Dieny

One hallmark of the Weyl semimetal is the emergence of Fermi arcs (FAs) in the surface Brillouin zone that connect the projected Weyl nodes of opposite chirality. The unclosed FAs can give rise to various exotic effects that have attracted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-18 Yue Zheng , Wei Chen , Xiangang Wan , D. Y. Xing

Using the Lagrangian formalism, we solve analytically the equations of motion for current-induced domain-wall dynamics in a ferromagnet with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. An exact solution for the domain wall velocity is provided, including…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Jacob Linder

Current-induced spin-orbit torque (SOT) in normal metal/ferromagnet (NM/FM) bilayers bears great promise for technological applications, but the microscopic origin of purely interfacial SOTs in ultra-thin systems is not yet fully…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-02 Alessandro Veneri , David T. S. Perkins , Aires Ferreira

As the Fermi level and band structure of two-dimensional materials are readily tunable, they constitute an ideal platform for exploring Lifshitz transition, a change in the topology of a material's Fermi surface. Using tetralayer graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-09 Yanmeng Shi , Shi Che , Kuan Zhou , Supeng Ge , Ziqi Pi , Timothy Espiritu , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Yafis Barlas , Roger Lake , Chun Ning Lau

We develop a simple theory for the longitudinal spin Seebeck effect in n-doped InSb in an external magnetic field. We consider spin-$1/2$ electrons in the conduction band of InSb with a temperature gradient parallel to the applied magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 N. A. Pike , D. Stroud

We report a detailed magnetotransport study on single crystals of PrBi. The presence of $f$-electrons in this material raises the prospect of realizing a strongly correlated version of topological semimetals. PrBi shows a magnetic field…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-07-09 Amit Vashist , R. K. Gopal , Divya Srivastava , M. Karppinen , Yogesh Singh

We study the Landau-Lifshitz model for the energy of multi-scale transition layers -- called "domain walls" -- in soft ferromagnetic films. Domain walls separate domains of constant magnetization vectors $m^\pm \in \mathbb{S}^2$ that differ…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-09-11 Lukas Döring , Radu Ignat , Felix Otto

Electron spectrum of 2D and 3D antiferromagnetic metals is calculated with account of spin-fluctuation corrections within perturbation theory in the s-f exchange model. Effects of the interaction of conduction electrons with spin waves in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 V. Yu. Irkhin , M. I. Katsnelson

We explore the effect of inhomogeneity on electronic properties of the two-dimensional Hubbard model on a square lattice using dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT). The inhomogeneity is introduced via modulated lattice hopping such that in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-27 Pramod Kumar , Tuomas I. Vanhala , Päivi Törmä

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

Bloch-Bloembergen-Slonczewski equation is adopted to simulate magnetization dynamics in spin-valve based spin-transfer torque oscillator with synthetic antiferromagnet acting as a free magnetic layer. High frequency up to the terahertz…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Hai Zhong , Shizhu Qiao , Shishen Yan , Hong Zhang , Yufeng Qin , Lanju Liang , Dequan Wei , Yinrui Zhao , Shishou Kang

We discuss the dissipative diffusion-type term of the form $\mathbf{m}\times\nabla^2\partial_t\mathbf{m}$ in the phenomenological Landau-Lifshitz equation of ferromagnetic precession, which describes enhanced Gilbert damping of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , E. M. Hankiewicz , Giovanni Vignale

Spin transfer torques (STT) occur when electric currents travel through inhomogeneously magnetized systems and are important for the motion of magnetic textures such as domain walls. Since superconductors are easy-plane ferromagnets in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-11-19 Ion Garate