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Thermally-driven spin-transfer torques have recently been reported in electrically insulating ferromagnet$|$normal-metal heterostructures. In this paper, we propose two physically distinct mechanisms for such torques. The first is a local…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-24 Scott A. Bender , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Magnetic textures can be manipulated by electric currents via the mechanisms of spin-transfer and spin-orbit-torques. We review how these torques can be exploited to create chiral magnetic textures in magnets with broken inversion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 Jan Masell , Karin Everschor-Sitte

We develop a quantum analog of the classical spin-torque model for current-driven magnetic dynamics. The current-driven magnetic excitation at finite field becomes significantly incoherent. This excitation is described by an effective…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Urazhdin

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 theoretically investigate the role of spin fluctuations in charge transport through a magnetic junction. Motivated by recent experiments that measure a nonlinear dependence of the current on electrical bias, we develop a systematic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-06 Scott A. Bender , Rembert A. Duine , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

This chapter presents a review on spin transfer torque in magnetic tunnel junctions. In the first part, we propose an overview of experimental and theoretical studies addressing current-induced magnetization excitations in magnetic tunnel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-27 Aurélien Manchon , Natalya Ryzhanova , Mairbek Chschiev , A. Vedyayev , K. -J. Lee , Bernard Dieny

A recently proposed exchange-correlation functional (Dewhurst et al. 10.1021/acs.jctc.7b01049) with in density functional theory, which ensures that the exchange-correlation magnetic field is source-free, is shown to give non-zero internal…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-17 J. K. Dewhurst , A. Sanna , S. Sharma

The interplay between spin wave and magnetic texture represents the information exchange between the fast and slow dynamical parts of magnetic systems. Here we formulate a set of magnonic torques acting on background magnetic texture, by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-15 Jin Lan , Hanxu Ai

A new method for analysing magnetization dynamics in spin textures under the influence of fast electron injection from topological ferromagnetic sources such as Dirac half metals has been proposed. These electrons, traveling at a velocity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Satadeep Bhattacharjee , Seung-Cheol Lee

We investigate theoretically the spin torque and magnetization dynamic in a thin ferromagnetic (FM) layer with spatially varying magnetization. The FM layer is deposited on the surface of a topological insulator (TI). In the limit of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-29 Ji Chen , Mansoor Bin Abdul Jalil , Seng Ghee Tan

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

Interplay between magnetization dynamics and electric current in a conducting ferromagnet is theoretically studied based on a microscopic model calculation. First, the effects of the current on magnetization dynamics (spin torques) are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 H. Kohno , S. Kawabata , T. Noguchi , S. Ueta , J. Shibata , G. Tatara

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

Magnetic domain walls can be moved by spin-polarized currents due to spin-transfer torques. This opens the possibility to use them in spintronic memory devices as, e.g., in racetrack storage. Naturally, in miniaturized devices domain walls…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Martin Stier , Jennifer Erdmann , Michael Thorwart

The spin-transfer torque is a fundamental physical quantity to operate the spintronics devices such as racetrack memory. We theoretically study the spin-transfer torque and analyze the dynamics of the magnetic domain walls in magnetic Weyl…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-08 Daichi Kurebayashi , Kentaro Nomura

We introduce the general formalism to describe spin torques induced by the supercurrents injected from the adjacent superconducting electrodes into the spin-textured ferromagnets. By considering the adiabatic limit for the equal-spin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-08-28 I. V. Bobkova , A. M. Bobkov , M. A. Silaev

We develop a macroscopic description of the current-induced torque due to spin transfer in a layered system consisting of two ferromagnetic layers separated by a nonmagnetic layer. The description is based on i) the classical spin diffusion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 J. Barnas , A. Fert , M. Gmitra , I. Weymann , V. K. Dugaev

We theoretically study electrical responses of magnetization in Weyl semimetals. The Weyl semimetal is a new class of topological semimetals, possessing hedgehog type spin textures in momentum space. Because of this peculiar spin texture,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-07 Daichi Kurebayashi , Kentaro Nomura

The dynamics of magnetization in the presence of spin-transfer torque was studied. We derived the equation for the motion of magnetization in the presence of a spin current by using the local equilibrium assumption in non-equilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-07 Kazuhiko Seki , Hiroshi Imamura

We investigate an interfacial spin-transfer torque and $\beta$-term torque with alternating current (AC) parallel to a magnetic interface. We find that both torques are resonantly enhanced as the AC frequency approaches to the exchange…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-11 Junji Fujimoto , Mamoru Matsuo