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Spintronics is an approach to electronics in which the spin of the electrons is exploited to control the electric resistance R of devices. One basic building block is the spin-valve, which is formed if two ferromagnetic electrodes are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Sangeeta Sahoo , Takis Kontos , Jürg Furer , Christian Hoffmann , Matthias Gräber , Audrey Cottet , Christian Schönenberger

Interplay between magnetization dynamics and electric current in a conducting ferromagnet is theoretically studied based on a microscopic model calculation. First, the effects of the current on magnetization dynamics (spin torques) are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 H. Kohno , S. Kawabata , T. Noguchi , S. Ueta , J. Shibata , G. Tatara

We study the electronic waiting time distributions (WTDs) in a non-interacting quantum dot spin valve by varying spin polarization and the noncollinear angle between the magnetizations of the leads using scattering matrix approach. Since…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-09 Gaomin Tang , Fuming Xu , Shuo Mi , Jian Wang

The mutual interaction between the different eigenmodes of a spin-torque oscillator can lead to a large variety of physical mechanisms from mode hopping to multi-mode generation, that usually reduce their performances as radio-frequency…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-03 R. Lebrun , J. Grollier , P. Bortolotti , V. Cros , A. Hamadeh , X. de Milly , Y. Li , G. de Loubens , O. Klein , S. Tsunegi , H. Kubota , K. Yakushiji , A. Fukushima , S. Yuasa

We performed studies of coherent electronic transport through a single walled carbon nanotube. In the calculations multiple scattering on the contacts and interference processes were taken into account. Conductance is a composition of…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-31 W. Iwo Babiaczyk , Bogdan. R. Bulka

We consider dc-electronic transport through a nanowire suspended between normal- and spin-polarized metal leads in the presence of an external magnetic field. We show that magnetomotive coupling between the electrical current through the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-05 Danko Radić , Anders Nordenfelt , Anatoli M. Kadigrobov , Robert I. Shekhter , Mats Jonson , Leonid Y. Gorelik

Spintronics had a widespread impact over the past decades due to transferring information by spin rather than electric currents. Its further development requires miniaturization and reduction of characteristic timescales of spin dynamics…

Current fluctuations can provide additional insight into quantum transport in mesoscopic systems. The present work is carried out for the fluctuation properties of transport through a pair of coupled quantum dots which are connected with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-02 JunYan Luo , Xin-Qi Li , YiJing Yan

We consider the current-induced dynamics of insulating antiferromagnets in a spin Hall geometry. Sufficiently large in-plane currents perpendicular to the N\'{e}el order trigger spontaneous oscillations at frequencies between the acoustic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-23 Ran Cheng , Di Xiao , Arne Brataas

We study spin switching effects in finite-size superconducting multivalve structures. We examine $\rm F_1F_2SF_3$ and $\rm F_1F_2SF_3F_4$ hybrids where a singlet superconductor ($\rm S$) layer is sandwiched among ferromagnet ($\rm F$)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-03-09 Mohammad Alidoust , Klaus Halterman

The miniaturisation of magnetic read heads and random access memory elements makes them vulnerable to thermal fluctuations. We demonstrate how current-induced spin-transfer torques can be used to suppress the effects of thermal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-07 Swarnali Bandopadhyay , Arne Brataas , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

Using newly developed quantum-classical hybrid framework, we investigate interaction between spin-polarized conduction electrons and a single spin wave (SW) coherently excited within a metallic ferromagnetic nanowire. When the nanowire…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-08 Abhin Suresh , Utkarsh Bajpai , Branislav K. Nikolic

DC current induced magnetization reversal and magnetization oscillation was observed in 500 nm large size Co90Fe10/Cu/Ni80Fe20 pillars. A perpendicular external field enhanced the coercive field separation between the reference layer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Linqiang Luo , Mehdi Kabir , Nam Dao , Salinporn Kittiwatanakul , Michael Cyberey , Stuart A. Wolf , Mircea Stan , Jiwei Lu

Two magnetic impurities on the edge of a zigzag graphene nanoribbon strongly interact with each other via indirect coupling, which can be mediated by conducting carriers. By means of Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations, we find that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-09 F. M. Hu , Liangzhi Kou , Thomas Frauenheim

We investigate transport through a single-level quantum dot coupled to noncollinearly magnetized ferromagnets in the presence of localized spins in either the tunnel barrier or on the quantum dot. For a spin embedded in the tunnel barrier,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-24 Björn Sothmann , Jürgen König

We present a theory of voltage-induced spin-transfer torques in ballistic non-collinear spin valves. The torkance on one ferromagnetic layer is expressed in terms of scattering coefficients of the whole spin valve, in analogy to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-06 K. Carva , I. Turek

Spin-transfer torques occur in magnetic heterostructures because the transverse component of a spin current that flows from a non-magnet into a ferromagnet is absorbed at the interface. We demonstrate this fact explicitly using free…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 M. D. Stiles , A. Zangwill

In this work we report observation of in-plane current induced out-of-plane magnetic field driven torque in spin valve structure. Since ferromagnet has high spin orbit coupling it is expected to be the source of spin-orbit-torque as it…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-27 Arnab Bose , Duc Duong Lam , Swapnil Bhuktare , Sutapa Dutta , Hanuman Singh , Shinji Miwa , Ashwin A. tulapurkar

The effects of a weak microwave field in the magnetization dynamics driven by spin-transfer-torque in spin-valves with perpendicular materials have been systematically studied by means of full micromagnetic simulations. In the system we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Mario Carpentieri , Giovanni Finocchio , Bruno Azzerboni , Luis Torres

We investigate the effect of a scanning gate tip in the nonlinear quantum transport properties of nanostructures. Generally, we predict that the symmetry of the current-voltage characteristic in reflection-symmetric samples is broken by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-18 Cosimo Gorini , Dietmar Weinmann , Rodolfo A. Jalabert