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Current-induced magnetic switching of a single magnetic molecule attached to two ferromagnetic contacts is considered theoretically, with the main emphasis put on the role of intrinsic spin relaxation processes. It is shown that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Maciej Misiorny , Józef Barnaś

Because of spin-orbit interaction, an electrical current is accompanied by a spin current resulting in spin accumulation near the sample edges. Due again to spin-orbit interaction this causes a small decrease of the sample resistance. An…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. I. Dyakonov

We study the dynamics of spin valves consisting of two layers of magnetic insulators separated by a normal metal in the macrospin model. A current through the spacer generates a spin Hall current that can actuate the magnetization via the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-19 Hans Skarsvåg , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Arne Brataas

We investigate a spin-electricity conversion effect in a topological insulator/ferromagnet heterostructure. In the spin-momentum-locked surface state, an electric current generates nonequilibrium spin accumulation, which causes a spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-21 Nobuyuki Okuma , Kentaro Nomura

In the presence of spatial variation of the magnetization direction, electric current noise causes a fluctuating spin-transfer torque that increases the fluctuations of the ferromagnetic order parameter. By the fluctuation-dissipation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jorn Foros , Arne Brataas , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

Spin-orbit coupling stands as a pivotal determinant in the realm of condensed matter physics. In recent, its profound influence on spin dynamics opens up a captivating arena with promising applications. Notably, the topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-06 Taekoo Oh , Naoto Nagaosa

We study the magnetization dynamics in a ferromagnet-insulator-superconductor tunnel junction and the associated buildup of the electrical polarization. We show that for an open circuit, the induced voltage varies strongly and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-02 Mircea Trif , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

A complete set of the generalized drift-diffusion equations for a coupled charge and spin dynamics in ferromagnets in the presence of extrinsic spin-orbit coupling is derived from the quantum kinetic approach, covering major transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-02 C. O. Pauyac , M. Chshiev , A. Manchon , S. A. Nikolaev

Theoretical investigations of spin transfer torque in magnetic tunnel junctions using the tight-binding model in the framework of non-equilibrium Green functions formalism are presented. We show that the behavior of the spin transfer torque…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Chshiev , I. Theodonis , A. Kalitsov , N. Kioussis , W. H. Butler

In systems with small spin-orbit coupling, current-induced torques on the magnetization require inhomogeneous magnetization textures. For large spin-orbit coupling, such torques exist even without gradients in the magnetization direction.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 E. van der Bijl , R. A. Duine

We utilize simulations of electron scattering by a chain of dynamical quantum spins, to analyze the interplay between the spin transfer effect and the magnetization dynamics. We show that the complex interactions between the spin-polarized…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-21 Neil Tramsen , Alexander Mitrofanov , Sergei Urazhdin

The combined action of a transverse spin-polarized current and the current-induced {\O}rsted field on long ferromagnetic nanostripes is studied numerically and analytically. The magnetization behavior is analyzed for stripes with various…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-23 Oleksii M. Volkov , Volodymyr P. Kravchuk , Denis D. Sheka , Yuri Gaididei , Franz G. Mertens

A conventional superconductor sandwiched between two ferromagnets can maintain coherent equilibrium spin current. This spin supercurrent results from the rotation of odd-frequency spin correlations induced in the superconductor by the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-02-10 Risto Ojajärvi , F. S. Bergeret , M. A. Silaev , Tero T. Heikkilä

We consider the spin-current driven dynamics of a magnetic nanostructure in a conductive magnetic wire under a heat gradient in an open circuit, spin Seebeck effect geometry. It is shown that the spin-current scattering results in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Chenglong Jia , Jamal Berakdar

We study the influence of an electric current on a continuous non-collinear antiferromagnetic texture. Despite the lack of a net magnetic moment we find that the exchange interaction between conduction electrons and local magnetization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-24 A. C. Swaving , R. A. Duine

Recent studies on magnetization dynamics induced by spin-orbit torque have revealed a weak dependence of the critical current for magnetization switching on the damping constant of a ferromagnetic free layer. This study, however, reveals…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-12 Tomohiro Taniguchi , Yohei Shiokawa , Tomoyuki Sasaki

We develop a phenomenological hydrodynamic theory of coherent magnetic precession coupled to electric currents. Exchange interaction between electron spin and collective magnetic texture produces two reciprocal effects: spin-transfer torque…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Clement H. Wong

We study tunneling currents in a model consisting of two non-unitary ferromagnetic spin-triplet superconductors separated by a thin insulating layer. We find a novel interplay between ferromagnetism and superconductivity, manifested in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 M. S. Gronsleth , J. Linder , J. -M. Borven , A. Sudbo

We study tunneling currents in a model consisting of two non-unitary ferromagnetic spin-triplet superconductors separated by a thin insulating layer. We find a novel interplay between ferromagnetism and superconductivity, manifested in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Gronsleth , J. Linder , J. -M-Borven , A. Sudbo

A simple but general microscopic mechanism to understand the interplay between the electric and magnetic degrees of freedom is developed. Within this mechanism, the magnetic structure generates an electric current which induce an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Jiangping Hu