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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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Oleksii M. Volkov , Volodymyr P. Kravchuk , Denis D. Sheka , Yuri Gaididei

We present a complete theory of the spin torque phenomena in a ultrasmall nanomagnet coupled to non-collinear ferromagnetic electrodes through tunnelling junctions. This model system can be described by a simple microscopic model which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-22 O. Parcollet , X. Waintal

Spin superfluidity, i.e., coherent spin transport mediated by topologically stable textures, is limited by parasitic anisotropies rooted in relativistic interactions and spatial inhomogeneities. Since structural disorder in amorphous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 Hector Ochoa , Ricardo Zarzuela , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

In a nanomagnet (whose total spin S< 1000), very small polarized currents can lead to magnetic reversal. Treating on the same footing the transport and magnetic properties of a nanomagnet connected to magnetic leads via tunneling barriers,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 X. Waintal , O. Parcollet

The subject of this study is spin transport through a molecular orbital connected to two leads, and coupled via exchange interaction with a precessing anisotropic molecular spin in a constant magnetic field. The inelastic spin-flip…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-02 Milena Filipović

We utilize a hybrid quantum-classical equation of motion approach to investigate the spin dynamics and spin-transfer torque in a spin valve under bias voltage. We show that the interplay between localized classical magnetic moments and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-28 Rudolf Smorka , Pavel Baláž , Michael Thoss , Martin Žonda

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

Ultrafast demagnetization of magnetic layers pumped by a femtosecond laser pulse is accompanied by a nonthermal spin-polarized current of hot electrons. These spin currents are studied here theoretically in a spin valve with noncollinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-26 Pavel Baláž , Martin Žonda , Karel Carva , Pablo Maldonado , Peter M. Oppeneer

Recent progress in physics on spin dependent transport in magnetic nanostructures is reviewed. Special attention is paid on the spin accumulation and spin current caused by spin injection into non-magnetic metals and semiconductors and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Maekawa

We perform 3D micromagnetic simulations of current-driven magnetization dynamics in nanoscale exchange biased spin-valves that take account of (i) back action of spin-transfer torque on the pinned layer, (ii) non-linear damping and (iii)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Siracusano , G. Finocchio , I. N. Krivorotov , L. Torres , G. Consolo , B. Azzerboni

We address two finite size effects in perpendicular transport through magnetic multilayers. When the magnetic layer thickness in spin valves becomes of the order or smaller than the spin-flip diffusion length, structural asymmetries affect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Alexey A. Kovalev , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Arne Brataas

We consider a quasi one-dimensional configuration consisting of two small pieces of ferromagnetic material separated by a metallic one and contacted by two metallic leads. A spin-polarized current is injected from one lead. Our goal is to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-13 J. Peguiron , M. -S. Choi , C. Bruder

A combined bottom-up assembly of electrodeposited nanowires and electron beam lithography technique has been developed to investigate the spin transfer torque and microwave emission on specially designed nanowires containing a single…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-12 F. Abreu Araujo , L. Piraux , V. A. Antohe , V. Cros , L. Gence

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

Phenomenological approach is developed in the theory of spin-valve type ferromagnetic junctions to describe exchange switching by current flowing perpendicular to interfaces. Forward and backward current switching effects are described and…

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

We provide a theoretical description of diffusive charge and spin transport in hybrid devices containing altermagnets. Based on recently derived drift--diffusion equations for coupled charge and spin dynamics and general boundary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Nicolás Sigales , Tim Kokkeler , Gonzalo de Polsi , Sebastian Bergeret

The spin-transfer effect is investigated for the vortex state of a magnetic nanodot. A spin current is shown to act similarly to an effective magnetic field perpendicular to the nanodot. Then a vortex with magnetization (polarity) parallel…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Jean-Guy Caputo , Yuri Gaididei , Franz G. Mertens , Denis D. Sheka

Non-uniform current distributions of spin valves with disk shaped free layers are investigated. In the context of spin valves, the vortex state, which is the ground-state in many disk shaped magnetic bodies, allows for distinct parallel…

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

Spin-transfer torques in magnetic nanocontacts can lead to self-sustained magnetization oscillations that involve large-amplitude gyrotropic vortex motion. This dynamics consists of a steady state orbit around the nanocontact, which is made…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-07-23 Joo-Von Kim , Thibaut Devolder