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We propose to use oscillating spin currents with slowly varying frequency (chirp) to manipulate and control the magnetization dynamics in a nanomagnet. By recasting the Landau-Lifshitz-Slonczewski equation in a quantum-like two-level…

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This paper describes a numerical experiment of magnetization switching driven by spin-polarized current in high-TMR magnetic tunnel junctions (TMR>100%). Differently from other works, the current density distribution throughout the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 D. Aurelio , L. Torres , G. Finocchio

We examine different models and methods for studying finite-temperature magnetic hysteresis in nanoparticles and ultrathin films. This includes micromagnetic results for the hysteresis of a single magnetic nanoparticle which is misaligned…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 M. A. Novotny , D. T. Robb , S. M. Stinnett , G. Brown , P. A. Rikvold

A microscopic model is constructed which is able to describe multiple magnetic flux transitions as observed in recent ultra-low temperature tunnel experiments on an aluminum superconducting ring with normal metal - insulator -…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Y. Vodolazov , F. M. Peeters , T. T. Hongisto , A. Yu. Arutyunov

There are essential achievements in synthesis of interesting for creation of compact electronic memory switched by own current structures of spin valves and magnetic tunnel junctions with hysteretic current dependences of resistance. In the…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-08-07 E. S. Demidov

We analyze transport of magnetization in insulating systems described by a spin Hamiltonian. The magnetization current through a quasi one-dimensional magnetic wire of finite length suspended between two bulk magnets is determined by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Florian Meier , Daniel Loss

The influence of ballistic channels superimposed on tunneling conduction channels in magnetic tunnel junctions has been studied in a manganese oxide based tunneling device. Inversion of magnetoresistance has been observed in magnetic tunnel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Soumik Mukhopadhyay , I. Das

We measure the dynamic resistance of a Co/Cu/Co trilayer nanopillar at varied magnetic field $H$ and current $I$. The resistance displays the usual behavior, almost symmetric in $H$, both when magnetization switching is hysteretic at small…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Urazhdin , Norman O. Birge , W. P. Pratt , J. Bass

The flow of in-plane current through ultrathin magnetic heterostructures can cause magnetization switching or domain wall nucleation owing to bulk and interfacial effects. Within the magnetic layer, the current can create magnetic…

The magnetic response of a K2Cr3As3 sample has been studied by means of dc magnetization measurements as a function of magnetic field (H) at different temperatures ranging from 5 K up to 300 K. Looking at the magnetic hysteresis loops m(H),…

We study current-driven magnetization switching in nanofabricated magnetic trilayers, varying the magnetoresistance in three different ways. First, we insert a strongly spin-scattering layer between the magnetic trilayer and one of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Urazhdin , Norman O. Birge , W. P. Pratt , J. Bass

A selfconsistent theory of the current-induced switching of magnetization using nonequilibrium Keldysh formalism is developed for a junction of two ferromagnets separated by a nonmagnetic spacer. It is shown that the spin-transfer torques…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 D. M. Edwards , F. Federici , J. Mathon , A. Umerski

We present a numerical simulation study of the exchange bias (EB) effect in nanoparticles with core/shell structure aimed to unveil the microscopic origin of some of the experimental phenomenology associated to this effect. In particular,…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-06-20 Oscar Iglesias , Xavier Batlle , Amilcar Labarta

We use a microscopic Slater-Koster tight-binding model with short-range exchange and atomic spin-orbit interactions that realistically captures generic features of ferromagnetic metal nanoparticles to address the mesoscopic physics of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Cehovin , C. M. Canali , A. H. MacDonald

The ground state of colloidal magnetic particles in a modulated channel are investigated as function of the tilt angle of an applied magnetic field. The particles are confined by a parabolic potential in the transversal direction while in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-04-02 J. E. Galván-Moya , D. Lucena , W. P. Ferreira , F. M. Peeters

Colossal negative magnetoresistance and the associated field-induced insulator-to-metal transition, the most characteristic features of magnetic semiconductors, are observed in n-type rare earth oxides and chalcogenides, p-type manganites,…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-07-19 Ursula Wurstbauer , Cezary Śliwa , Dieter Weiss , Tomasz Dietl , Werner Wegscheider

In magnetic nanostructures one usually uses a magnetic field to commute between two resistance (R) states. A less common but technologically more interesting alternative to achieve R-switching is to use an electrical current, preferably of…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Ventura , J. P. Araujo , J. B. Sousa , Y. Liu , Z. Zhang , P. P. Freitas

We present Monte Carlo simulations of hysteresis loops of a model of a magnetic nanoparticle with a ferromagnetic core and an antiferromegnetic shell with varying values of the core/shell interface exchange coupling which aim to clarify the…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-09 Oscar Iglesias , Xavier Batlle , Amilcar Labarta

We study the influence of surface anisotropy on the zero-temperature hysteretic properties of a small single-domain magnetic particle, and give an estimation of the anisotropy constant for which deviations from the Stoner-Wohlfarth model…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Kachkachi , M. Dimian

We investigate the thermal activated magnetisation reversal in a single ferromagnetic nanoparticle with uniaxial anisotropy using Monte Carlo simulations. The aim of this work is to reproduce the reversal magnetisation by uniform rotation…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Denis Ledue , Pierre-Emmanuel Berche , Renaud Patte