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We find there are at least two different steady states for transport across noncollinear magnetic multilayers. In the conventional one there is a discontinuity in the spin current across the interfaces which has been identified as the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Peter M Levy , Jianwei Zhang

A theoretical framework is proposed for the spin-current driven synchronized self-oscillations in ferromagnets in the spin Hall geometry. The spin current generated by the spin Hall effect in a bottom nonmagnetic heavy metal excites a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-17 Tomohiro Taniguchi

We study theoretically spin transport through a single-molecule magnet (SMM) in the sequential and cotunneling regimes, where the SMM is weakly coupled to one ferromagnetic and one normalmetallic leads. By a master-equation approach, it is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-19 Haiqing Xie , Fuming Xu , Hujun Jiao , Qiang Wang , J. -Q. Liang

A theory of resonant spin-dependent tunneling has been developed for symmetrical double-barrier structures grown of non-centrosymmetrical semiconductors. The dependence of the tunneling transparency on the spin orientation and the wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. M. Glazov , P. S. Alekseev , M. A. Odnoblyudov , V. M. Chistyakov , S. A. Tarasenko , I. N. Yassievich

Transport calculations based on ab-initio band structures reveal large interface-generated spin currents at Co/Pt, Co/Cu, and Pt/Cu interfaces. These spin currents are driven by in-plane electric fields but flow out-of-plane, and can have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-03 V. P. Amin , J. Zemen , M. D. Stiles

Since the discovery of the spin orbit torque (SOT) induced by spin Hall effect in heavy metals, much effort has been devoted to understanding the mechanism of the charge-to-spin conversion as well as to developing new schemes for high…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-15 Shengjie Shi , R. A. Buhrman

We theoretically study the spin-dependent transport in a ferromagnet/superconductor/ferro-magnet double barrier tunnel junction. The spin-polarized tunneling currents give rise to spin imbalance in the superconductor. The resulting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Saburo Takahashi , Hiroshi Imamura , Sasamichi Maekawa

We revisit the transport of spin-degrees of freedom across an electrically and thermally biased tunnel junction between two ferromagnets with non-collinear magnetizations. Besides the well-known charge and spin currents we show that a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-18 Michael Hell , Sourin Das , Maarten Rolf Wegewijs

We theoretically consider a Josephson junction formed by a ferromagnetic spacer with a strong spin-orbit interaction or a magnetic spin valve, i.e., a bilayer with one static and one free layer. Electron spin transport facilitates a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Silas Hoffman , Ya. M. Blanter , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Using a semiclassical approach that simultaneously incorporates the spin Hall effect (SHE), spin diffusion, quantum well states, and interface spin-orbit coupling (SOC), we address the interplay of these mechanisms as the origin of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Kohei Sakanashi , Manfred Sigrist , Wei Chen

Spin-torque nano-oscillators (STNOs) are promising nanoscale microwave sources for spintronic applications, serving as signal generators or elements in neuromorphic computing systems. In this paper, we investigate the experimental…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-10 Maksim Stebliy , Alex Jenkins , Luana Benetti , Ricardo Ferreira

The phenomenon of spin transfer torque (STT) has attracted a great deal of interests due to its promising prospects in practical spintronic devices. In this paper, we report a theoretical investigation of STT in a noncollinear magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-17 Xiaobin Chen , Chenyi Zhou , Zhaohui Zhang , Jingzhe Chen , Xiaohong Zheng , Lei Zhang , Can-Ming Hu , Hong Guo

Current-induced torques on ferromagnetic nanoparticles and on domain walls in ferromagnetic nanowires are normally understood in terms of transfer of conserved spin angular momentum between spin-polarized currents and the magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. M. Haney , R. A. Duine , A. S. Nunez , A. H. MacDonald

Pure spin currents transport angular momentum without an associated charge flow. This unique property makes them attractive for spintronics applications, such as torque induced magnetization control in nanodevices that can be used for…

Anisotropy of spin-orbit interaction (SOI) is studied for a single uncapped InAs self-assembled quantum dot (SAQD) holding just a few electrons. The SOI energy is evaluated from anti-crossing or SOI induced hybridization between the ground…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-05 S. Takahashi , R. S. Deacon , K. Yoshida , A. Oiwa , K. Shibata , Y. Tokura , S. Tarucha

In magnets with non-collinear spin configuration the expectation value of the conventionally defined spin current operator contains a contribution which renormalizes an external magnetic field and hence affects only the precessional motion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Andreas Rückriegel , Peter Kopietz

The theory for the quantum tunneling of nano-magnets is developed within the intermediate spin framework. Periodic magnetic effects are seen to reflect that associated with a change of flux by a single flux quantum $\Phi_{0}$. Essential are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. E. Barnes

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 study the combined effects of spin transfer torque, voltage modulation of interlayer exchange coupling and magnetic anisotropy on the switching behavior of perpendicular magnetic tunnel junctions (p-MTJs). In asymmetric p-MTJs, a…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-19 D. J. P. de Sousa , P. M. Haney , D. L. Zhang , J. P. Wang , Tony Low

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