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We discuss a spin-transfer torque device, where the role of the soft ferromagnetic layer is played by a magnetic particle or a magnetic molecule, in weak tunnel contact with two spin polarized leads. We investigate if the magnetization of…

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We examine the effect a spatially non-uniform spin current with a component polarized partially out of the plane has on a low saturation magnetization nanomagnet free layer. Micromagnetic simulations indicate that the spin torque efficiency…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 P. M. Braganca , O. Ozatay , A. G. F. Garcia , O. J. Lee , D. C. Ralph , R. A. Buhrman

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…

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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

This paper shows that the presence of two dynamical regimes, characterized by different precessional-axis, is the origin of the non-monotonic behavior of the output integrated power for large-amplitude magnetization precession driven by…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Siracusano , G. Finocchio , A. La Corte , G. Consolo , L. Torres , B. Azzerboni

Using thin film pillars ~100 nm in diameter, containing two ferromagnetic Co layers of different thicknesses separated by a paramagnetic Cu spacer, we examine effects of torques due to spin-polarized currents flowing perpendicular to the…

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We study, both experimentally and by numerical modeling, the magnetic dynamics that can be excited in a magnetic thin-film nanopillar device using the spin torque from a spatially localized current injected via a 10s-of-nm-diameter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Finocchio , O. Ozatay , L. Torres , R. A. Buhrman , D. C. Ralph , B. Azzerboni

Voltage-driven spin transfer torques in magnetic tunnel junctions provide an outstanding tool to design advanced spin-based devices for memory and reprogrammable logic applications. The non-linear voltage dependence of the torque has a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 A. Manchon

Current-driven vortex wall dynamics is studied by means of a two-dimensional analytical model and micromagnetic simulation. By constructing a trial function for the vortex wall in the magnetic wire, we analytically solve for domain wall…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Jiexuan He , Zhanjie Li , Shufeng Zhang

The generation of oscillations in the microwave frequency range is one of the most important applications expected from spintronics devices exploiting the spin transfer phenomenon. We report transport and microwave power measurements on…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 O. Boulle , V. Cros , J. Grollier , L. G. Pereira , C. Deranlot , F. Petroff , G. Faini , J. Barnas , A. Fert

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

Current-induced torques on ferromagnetic nanoparticles and on domain walls in ferromagnetic nanowires are normally understood in terms of transfer of conserved spin angular momentum between spin-polarized currents and the magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. M. Haney , R. A. Duine , A. S. Nunez , A. H. MacDonald

In magnetic multilayers, a dc current induces a spin precession above a certain critical current. Drive torques responsible for this can be calculated from the spin accumulation $\bar{\Delta\mu}$. Existing calculations of $\bar{\Delta\mu}$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Berger

We present switching field distributions of spin-transfer assisted magnetization reversal in perpendicularly magnetized Co/Ni multilayer spin-valve nanopillars at room temperature. Switching field measurements of the Co/Ni free layer of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-29 D. B. Gopman , D. Bedau , S. Mangin , E. E. Fullerton , J. A. Katine , A. D. Kent

Ultrafast demagnetization induced by femtosecond laser pulses in thin metallic layers is caused by the outflow of spin-polarized hot electron currents describable by the superdiffusive transport model. These laser-generated spin currents…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-24 Pavel Baláž , Maciej Zwierzycki , Francesco Cosco , Karel Carva , Pablo Maldonado , Peter M. Oppeneer

There exists a significant challenge in developing efficient magnetic tunnel junctions with low write currents for non-volatile memory devices. With the aim of analysing potential materials for efficient current-operated magnetic junctions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-13 Matthew O. A. Ellis , Maria Stamenova , Stefano Sanvito

We study the magnetic damping in the simplest of synthetic antiferromagnets, i.e. antiferromagnetically exchange-coupled spin valves in which applied magnetic fields tune the magnetic configuration to become noncollinear. We formulate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-07 Takahiro Chiba , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Saburo Takahashi

We present a calculation of current-induced torques in metallic magnetic multilayers derived from the spin-dependent transmission and reflection properties of the magnetic layers. A scattering formalism is employed to calculate the torques…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Xavier Waintal , Edward B. Myers , Piet W. Brouwer , D. C. Ralph

Recent studies have predicted extraordinary properties for transverse domain walls in cylindrical nanowires: zero depinning current, the absence of the Walker breakdown, and applications as domain wall oscillators. In order to reliably…