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We investigate the spin relaxation and Kondo resistivity caused by magnetic impurities in doped transition metal dichalcogenides monolayers. We show that momentum and spin relaxation times due to the exchange interaction by magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-01 Habib Rostami , Ali G. Moghaddam , Reza Asgari

It is a common perception that the transport of a spin current in polycrystalline metal is isotropic and independent of the polarization direction, even though spin current is a tensorlike quantity and its polarization direction is a key…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-22 Chao Zhou , Fatih Kandaz , Yunjiao Cai , Chuan Qin , Mengwen Jia , Zhe Yuan , Yizheng Wu , Yi Ji

We study the spin relaxation torque in nonmagnetic or ferromagnetic metals with nonuniform spin-orbit coupling within the Keldysh Green's function formalism. In non-magnet, the relaxation torque is shown to arise when the spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Kazuhiro Tsutsui , Akihito Takeuchi , Gen Tatara , Shuichi Murakami

The spin torque exerted on a magnetic moment is a reaction to spin filtering when spin-polarized electrons interact with a thin ferromagnetic film. We show that, for certain conditions, a spin transmission resonance (STR) gives rise to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Wonkee Kim , F. Marsiglio

Based on the spinor Boltzmann equation, we obtain a temperature dependent thermal spin-orbit torque in terms of the local equilibrium distribution function in a two dimensional ferromagnet with Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling. We also…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 Chun Yi Xue , Ya Ru Wang , Zheng Chuan Wang

The relaxation time of weakly interacting classical spins is calculated by introducing the averages of the local dipolar field, obtained by thermodynamic perturbation theory, in a rigorous expression for the single-spin thermoactivation…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 P. E. Jönsson , J. L. Garcia-Palacios

Electron spin relaxation caused by the D'yakonov-Perel' mechanism is investigated theoretically in asymmetrical A$_3$B$_5$ heterostructures. The total spin relaxation anisotropy is demonstrated for a wide range of structure parameters and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. S. Averkiev , L. E. Golub , M. Willander

We study the role of thermal magnons in the spin and heat transport across a normal-metal/insulating-ferromagnet interface, which is beyond an elastic electronic spin transfer. Using an interfacial exchange Hamiltonian, which couples spins…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-16 Scott A. Bender , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

We theoretically examine the spin-transfer torque in the presence of spin-orbit interaction (SOI) at impurities in a ferromagnetic metal on the basis of linear response theory. We obtained, in addition to the usual spin-transfer torque, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Junya Shibata , Hiroshi Kohno

Spin dynamics is considered in ferromagnets consisting of electron and nuclear subsystems interacting with each other through hyperfine forces. In addition, the ferromagnetic sample is coupled with a resonance electric circuit. Under these…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 V. I. Yukalov , M. G. Cottam , M. R. Singh

The dynamics of magnetization in the presence of spin-transfer torque was studied. We derived the equation for the motion of magnetization in the presence of a spin current by using the local equilibrium assumption in non-equilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-07 Kazuhiko Seki , Hiroshi Imamura

We derive a unified theory of spin and charge degrees of freedom in a ferromagnet. The spin-transfer torque and spin electromotive force are examined from the coarse-grained perspective of collective coordinates. The resulting equations of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-08 Oleg Tchernyshyov

The spin-transfer in biased disordered ferromagnet (F) - normal metal (N) systems is calculated by the diffusion equation. For F1-N2-F2 and N1-F1-N2-F2-N3 spin valves, the effect of spin-flip processes in the normal metal and ferromagnet…

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

We describe a broadly-applicable theory of spin relaxation in materials with incoherent charge transport; examples include amorphous inorganic semiconductors, organic semiconductors, quantum dot arrays, and systems displaying…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-10-21 Nicholas J. Harmon , Michael E. Flatté

We show how the spin-transfer torque generated by an ac voltage may be used to excite a paramagnetic resonance of an atomic spin deposited on a metallic surface. This mechanism is independent of the environment of the atom and may explain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-06 Alexey M. Shakirov , Alexey N. Rubtsov , Pedro Ribeiro

Spin-transfer torque (STT) provides key mechanisms for current-induced phenomena in ferromagnets. While it is widely accepted that STT involves both adiabatic and non-adiabatic contributions, their underlying physics and range of validity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-23 Ran Cheng , Qian Niu

We consider a biaxial macrospin with an easy and hard axis, and study its dynamical evolution under the combined effects of thermal noise and spin transfer torque. The spin-torque is associated with both a perpendicularly magnetized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Daniele Pinna , Daniel L. Stein , Andrew D. Kent

Magnetization dynamics in single-domain ferromagnets can be triggered by charge current if spin-orbit coupling is sufficiently strong. We apply functional Keldysh theory to investigate Rashba spin-orbit torques in metallic two-dimensional…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-07-14 A. Qaiumzadeh , R. A. Duine , M. Titov

Motivated by recent observations of unconventional out-of-plane dampinglike torque in \ch{WTe2}/Permalloy bilayer systems, we calculate the spin-orbit torque generated in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD)-ferromagnet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-07 Fei Xue , Christoph Rohmann , Junwen Li , Vivek Amin , Paul Haney

A theory of spin-transport in hybrid normal metal - ferromagnetic electronic circuits is developed, taking into account non-collinear spin-accumulation. Spin-transport through resistive elements is described by 4 conductance parameters.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Arne Brataas , Yu. V. Nazarov , G. E. W. Bauer