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The discovery that a spin polarized current can exert a large torque on a ferromagnet through a transfusion of spin angular momentum, offers a new way to control a magnetization by simple current injection, without the help of an applied…

We calculate the charge current in a metallic ferromagnet to first order in the time derivative of the magnetization direction. Irrespective of the microscopic details, the result can be expressed in terms of the conductivities of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-01-09 R. A. Duine

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

Planar spin transport in disordered ultrathin magnetic bilayers comprising a ferromagnet and a normal metal (typically used for spin pumping, spin Seebeck and spin-orbit torque experiments) is investigated theoretically. Using a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 H. Saidaoui , A. Manchon

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

Spins transverse to the magnetization of a ferromagnet only survives over a short distance. We develop a drift-diffusion approach that captures the main features of transverse spin effects in systems with arbitrary spin textures (vortices,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-29 Cyril Petitjean , David Luc , Xavier Waintal

Non-adiabatic correction to spin transfer torque arising from fast-varying spin texture is calculated treating conduction electron fully quantum mechanically. The torque is non-local in space, and is shown to equivalent to a force (due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Gen Tatara , Hiroshi Kohno , Junya Shibata , Yann Lemaho , Kyung-Jin Lee

The dynamics of the domain wall (DW) in a biaxial ferromagnet interacting with a spin-polarized current are described by sine-gordon (SG) equation coupled with Gilbert damping term in this paper. Within our frame-work of this model, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-09 Xin Liu , Xiong-Jun Liu , Mo-Lin Ge

A comprehensive theory for electronic transport in itinerant ferromagnets is developed. We first show that the Q-field theory used previously to describe a disordered Fermi liquid also has a saddle-point solution that describes a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 T. R. Kirkpatrick , D. Belitz

We report the direct measurement of the non-adiabatic component of the spin-torque in domain walls. Our method is independent of both the pinning of the domain wall in the wire as well as of the Gilbert damping parameter. We demonstrate…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 I. M. Miron , P. -J. Zermatten , G. Gaudin , S. Auffret , B. Rodmacq , A. Schuhl

The dynamics of metastable magnetic domain walls in straight ferromagnetic nanowires under spin waves, external magnetic fields, and current induced spin transfer torque are studied by micromagnetic simulations. It is found that in contrast…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-30 Mahdi Jamali , Kyung-Jin Lee , Hyunsoo Yang

It has recently been proposed that spin-transfer torques in magnetic systems with anisotropic exchange can be strongly enhanced, reducing the characteristic current density with up to four orders of magnitude compared to conventional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-14 Henrik Enoksen , Asle Sudbø , Jacob Linder

The domain wall motion in a magnetic nanowire is examined theoretically in the regime where the domain wall driving force is weak and its competition against disorders is assisted by thermal agitations. Two types of driving forces are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-06 Jisu Ryu , Sug-Bong Choe , Hyun-Woo Lee

We formulate a theory of spin-transfer torques in antiferromagnets, which covers the small to large limits of the exchange coupling energy relative to the kinetic energy of the inter-sublattice electron dynamics. Our theory suggests a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-10 Yuta Yamane , Jun'ichi Ieda , Jairo Sinova

The dynamics of a domain wall driven by a spin-polarized current in a mesoscopic system is studied numerically. Spin-mixing in the states of the conduction electrons is fully taken into account. When the Fermi energy of the electrons is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jun-ichiro Ohe , Bernhard Kramer

We present a theoretical study of spin-wave scattering by a twisted domain wall (DW) in a two-dimensional ferromagnet with easy-axis anisotropy. While the twisted DW generates an effective gauge field for spin waves, leading to a deflection…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-15 Ehsan Faridi , Se Kwon Kim , Giovanni Vignale

We investigate instabilities of the magnetic ground state in ferromagnetic metals that are induced by uniform electrical currents, and, in particular, go beyond previous analyses by including dipolar interactions. These instabilities arise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-14 J. S. Harms , A. Rückriegel , R. A. Duine

We study the effect of disorder on the dynamics of a transverse domain wall in ferromagnetic nanostrips, driven either by magnetic fields or spin-polarized currents, by performing a large ensemble of GPU-accelerated micromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-29 Ben Van de Wiele , Lasse Laurson , Gianfranco Durin

The precise manipulation of transverse magnetic domain walls in finite/infinite nanowires with artificial defects under the influence of very short spin-polarized current pulses is investigated. We show that for a classical $3d$ ferromagnet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-09 A. Pivano , V. O. Dolocan

The effect of damping-like spin-orbit torque (DL SOT) on magnetic domain walls (DWs) in in-plane magnetised soft tracks is studied analytically and with micromagnetic simulations. We find that DL SOT drives vortex DWs, whereas transverse…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-02 Ryuhei Kohno , João Sampaio , Stanislas Rohart , André Thiaville