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We inject current pulses into uniformly magnetized patterns of thin films of the itinerant ferromagnet SrRuO3, while monitoring the effective temperature of the patterns during the current injection. We gradually increase the amplitude of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-08-16 Yishai Shperber , Daniel Bedau , James W. Reiner , Lior Klein

Switching diagrams of nanoscale ferromagnets driven by a spin-transfer torque are studied in the macrospin approximation. We consider a disk-shaped free layer with in-plane easy axis and external magnetic field directed in-plane at 90…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-06-26 Inti Sodemann , Ya. B. Bazaliy

Rigorous coupled spin-charge drift-diffusion equations are derived from quantum-kinetic equations for the spin-density matrix that incorporate effects due to k-linear spin-orbit interaction, an in-plane electric field, and the elastic…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Kleinert , V. V. Bryksin

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

According to the spin-torque model, current-driven magnetic dynamics in ferromagnetic multilayers is determined by the transfer of electron spin perpendicular to the layers' magnetizations. By separating the largest contributions to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Urazhdin

Spin transfer torque in spin valves usually destabilizes one of the collinear configurations (either parallel or antiparallel) and stabilizes the second one. Apart from this, balance of the spin-transfer and damping torques can lead to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Gmitra , J. Barnas

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

Tayler instability of toroidal magnetic fields $B_\phi$ is broadly invoked as a trigger for turbulence and angular momentum transport in stars. This paper presents a systematic revision of the linear stability analysis for a rotating,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-29 Valentin A. Skoutnev , Andrei M. Beloborodov

Ballistic spin transport through waveguides, with symmetric or asymmetric double stubs attached to them periodically, is studied systematically in the presence of a weak spin-orbit coupling that makes the electrons precess. By an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 X. F. Wang , P. Vasilopoulos , F. M. Peeters

Spin-polarized current effect is studied on the static and dynamic magnetization of the antiferromagnet in a ferromagnet - antiferromagnet nanojunction. The macrospin approximation is generalized to antiferromagnets. Canted…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-12-13 E. M. Epshtein , Yu. V. Gulyaev , P. E. Zilberman

Joint influence of two effects, namely, nonequilibrium spin injection by current, and current induced surface torque, on spin-valve type ferromagnetic metallic junctions is considered theoretically. The CPP configuration is assumed. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 R. J. Elliott , E. M. Epshtein , Yu. V. Gulyaev , P. E. Zilberman

Large spin current applied to a uniform ferromagnet leads to a spin-wave instability as pointed out recently. In this paper, it is shown that such spin-wave instability is absent in a state containing a domain wall, which indicates that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Junya Shibata , Gen Tatara , Hiroshi Kohno

The parametric excitation of spin waves by coherent surface acoustic waves is demonstrated experimentally in metallic magnetic thin film structures. The involved magnon modes are analyzed with micro-focused Brillouin light scattering…

We explore the possibility of exciting spin waves in insulating antiferromagnetic films by injecting spin current at the surface. We analyze both magnetically compensated and uncompensated interfaces. We find that the spin current induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-22 Matthew W. Daniels , Wei Guo , G. Malcolm Stocks , Di Xiao , Jiang Xiao

General phenomenological theory of magnetic spin waves in ferromagnetic media is originally reformulated and applied to analysis of magnetostatic waves in films and plates with arbitrary nisotropy under arbitrary external field. Exact…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-04-03 Yu. E. Kuzovlev , Yu. V. Medvedev , N. I. Mezin

Nonlinear spin polarization occurring in the second order of driving electric current is the dominant source of nonequilibrium magnetization in centrosymmetric or weakly noncentrosymmetric nonmagnetic materials, and induces nonlinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-08 Ruda Guo , Yue-Xin Huang , Xiaoxin Yang , Yi Liu , Cong Xiao , Zhe Yuan

Instabilities in magnetic fields wound up by differential rotation as reviewed in Spruit (1999) are discussed with some detail and new developments added. In stellar models which include magnetic torques, the differential rotation tends to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. C. Spruit

The dynamics of the magnetic order parameters of ferromagnet/normal-metal/ferromagnet spin valves and isolated ferromagnets may be very different. We investigate the role of the nonequilibrium spin-current exchange between the ferromagnets…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Arne Brataas , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

We present experimental and numerical micromagnetic data on the effect of spin momentum transfer in current perpendicular to the plane spin valves. Starting from a configuration with orthogonal free and pinned layer magnetizations, the free…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Covington , A. Rebei , G. J. Parker , M. A. Seigler

We obtain a fundamental instability of the magnetization-switching fronts in super-paramagnetic and ferromagnetic materials such as crystals of nanomagnets, ferromagnetic nanowires, and systems of quantum dots with large spin. We develop…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 O. Jukimenko , C. M. Dion , M. Marklund , V. Bychkov