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The lack of certain crystalline symmetries in strong spin-orbit-coupled non-magnetic materials allows for the existence of uncoventional spin Hall responses, with electrically generated transverse spin currents possessing collinear flow and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-01 D. J. P. de Sousa , P. M. Haney , J. P. Wang , Tony Low

We study the bias-dependent spin-transfer torque in magnetic tunnel junctions in the Stoner model by scattering theory. We show that the in-plane (Slonczewski type) torque vanishes and subsequently reverses its direction when the bias…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Jiang Xiao , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Arne Brataas

Thermal fluctuations of nanomagnets driven by spin-polarized currents are treated via the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation generalized to include both the random thermal noise field and the Slonczewski spin-transfer torque term. By…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-10-09 Y. P. Kalmykov , W. T. Coffey , S. V. Titov , J. E. Wegrowe , D. Byrne

We study in-plane magnetic tunnel junctions with additional perpendicular polarizer for subnanosecond-current-induced switching memories. The spin-transfer-torque switching dynamics was studied as a function of the cell aspect ratio both…

We study the stability of magnetization precessions induced in spin-transfer devices by the injection of spin-polarized electric currents. Instability conditions are derived by introducing a generalized, far-from-equilibrium interpretation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-28 G. Bertotti , R. Bonin , M. d'Aquino , C. Serpico , I. D. Mayergoyz

We investigate the spin-transfer torque in a magnetic multilayer structure by means of a spin-diffusion model. The torque in the considered system, consisting of two magnetic layers separated by a conducting layer, is caused by a…

We report measurements of magnetic switching and steady-state magnetic precession driven by spin-polarized currents in nanoscale magnetic tunnel junctions with low-resistance, < 5 Ohm-micron-squared, barriers. The current densities required…

Magnetoelectric properties of a coupled spin-electron model on a doubly decorated square lattice in an external electric field applied along the crystallographic axis [11] are rigorously examined with the help of generalized…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-26 Hana Čenčariková , Jozef Strečka

This paper describes a numerical experiment of magnetization switching driven by spin-polarized current in high-TMR magnetic tunnel junctions (TMR>100%). Differently from other works, the current density distribution throughout the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 D. Aurelio , L. Torres , G. Finocchio

We describe time-domain measurements which provide new information about the large-angle nonlinear dynamics of nanomagnets excited by spin-transfer torque from a spin-polarized current. Sampling-oscilloscope measurements, which average over…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 I. N. Krivorotov , N. C. Emley , R. A. Buhrman , D. C. Ralph

An anomalous (inverse) spin accumulation in the nonmagnetic spacer may build up when the spin valve consists of magnetic films having different spin symmetries. This leads to wavy-like dependence of spin-transfer torque on the angle between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-12 E. Jaromirska , P. Balaz , L. Lopez Diaz , J. Barnas

Spin-transfer torque (STT) effects on the stationary forced response of nanoscale ferromagnets subject to thermal fluctuations and driven by an ac magnetic field of arbitrary strength and direction are investigated via a generic nanopillar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-12 D. J. Byrne , W. T. Coffey , Y. P. Kalmykov , S. V. Titov , J. E. Wegrowe

The nature of spin wave modes excited by spin-polarized direct current in a spin-torque auto-oscillator based on a magnetic nanocontact was studied by a micromagnetic simulation in the case when the external bias magnetic field was rotated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Consolo , B. Azzerboni , L. Lopez-Diaz , G. Gerhart , E. Bankowski , V. Tiberkevich , A. N. Slavin

The magnetization evolution of the free layer in an orthogonal spin-torque device is studied based on a macrospin model. The trajectory of magnetization vector under various conditions has shown rich nonlinear properties. The phase diagram…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-05 Yuan Hui , Zheng Yang , Hao Yu

We study the nearest-neighbor spin-ice model subjected to a magnetic field applied along the global [111] and [110] directions, focusing on the role of sample geometry in stabilizing topological phase transitions. While no Kasteleyn…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-30 R. A. Borzi , E. S. Loscar , S. A. Grigera

We predict the existence of a new metastable magnetization state in a single-domain nanomagnet with uniaxial shape anisotropy. It emerges when a spin-polarized current, delivering a spin-transfer-torque, is injected into the nanomagnet. It…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-18 Kuntal Roy , Supriyo Bandyopadhyay , Jayasimha Atulasimha

We investigate magnetotransport in a ferromagnetic/normal/ferromagnetic graphene junction where a gate electrode is attached to the normal segment. It is shown that the charge conductance can be maximal at an antiparallel configuration of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Takehito Yokoyama , Jacob Linder

We study spin-dependent electron transport through a ferromagnetic-antiferromagnetic-normal metal tunneling junction subject to a voltage or temperature bias, in the absence of spin-orbit coupling. We derive microscopic formulas for various…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-11 Kei Yamamoto , Olena Gomonay , Jairo Sinova , Georg Schwiete

Magnetization behavior of long nanowires with square cross-section under influence of strong perpendicular spin-polarized current is studied theoretically. The study is based on Landau-Lifshitz-Slonczewski phenomenology. In the no current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-12 Volodymyr P. Kravchuk , Oleksii M. Volkov , Denis D. Sheka , Yuri Gaididei

We demonstrate the predicted out-of-plane precession induced by spin transfer in magnetic nanostructures with in-plane magnetic field. We show that other magnetic excitations have a significant effect on the stability of the out-of plane…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-07-17 Weng Lee Lim , Andrew Higgins , Sergei Urazhdin