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Laser induced modulation of the magnetization dynamics occurring over various time-scales have been unified here for a Ni80Fe20 thin film excited by amplified femtosecond laser pulses. The weak correlation between demagnetization time and…

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Thermal fluctuations of nanomagnets driven by spin-polarized currents are treated via the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation as generalized to include both the random thermal noise field and Slonczewski spin-transfer torque terms. The…

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Non-damped oscillations of the magnetization vector of a ferromagnetic system subject to a spin polarized current and an external magnetic field are studied theoretically by solving the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation. It is shown that the…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 P. M. Gorley , P. P. Horley , V. K. Dugaev , J. Barnas , V. R. Vieira

A tensor form of phenomenological damping is derived for small magnetization motions. This form reflects basic physical relaxation processes for a general uniformly magnetized particle or film. Scalar Landau-Lifshitz damping is found to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Vladimir L. Safonov

Spin relaxation in the ultrathin metallic films of stacked microelectronic devices is investigated on the basis of a modified Landau-Lifshitz equation of micromagnetic dynamics in which the damping torque is treated as originating from the…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-10-22 Sergey Bastrukov , Jun Yong Khoo , Boris Lukiyanchuk , Irina Molodtsova

The current driven magnetization dynamics of a thin-film, three magnetic terminal device (spin-flip transistor) is investigated theoretically. We consider a magnetization configuration in which all magnetizations are in the device plane,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Xuhui Wang , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Teruo Ono

A "spin-flip transistor" is a lateral spin valve consisting of ferromagnetic source drain contacts to a thin-film normal-metal island with an electrically floating ferromagnetic base contact on top. We analyze the \emph{dc}-current-driven…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Xuhui Wang , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Axel Hoffmann

Three-dimensional numerical simulations of decaying turbulence in a magnetized plasma are performed using a so-called FLR-Landau fluid model which incorporates linear Landau damping and finite Larmor radius (FLR) corrections. It is shown…

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Damping mechanisms in magnetic systems determine the lifetime, diffusion and transport properties of magnons, domain walls, magnetic vortices, and skyrmions. Based on the phenomenological Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation, here the effective…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-16 Levente Rózsa , Julian Hagemeister , Elena Y. Vedmedenko , Roland Wiesendanger

A magnetic particle with atomic spins ordered in an unstable direction is an example of a false vacuum that decays via excitation of internal spin waves. Coupled evolution of the particle's magnetization (or the vacuum state) and spin…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-05-05 D. A. Garanin , H. Kachkachi , L. Reynaud

We describe spin transfer in a ferromagnet/normal metal/ferromagnet spin-valve point contact. Spin is transferred from the spin-polarized device current to the magnetization of the free layer by the mechanism of incoherent magnon emission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. I. Kozub , J. Caro

Recent studies on magnetization dynamics induced by spin-orbit torque have revealed a weak dependence of the critical current for magnetization switching on the damping constant of a ferromagnetic free layer. This study, however, reveals…

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Theoretical conditions to excite self-oscillation in a spin torque oscillator consisting of a perpendicularly magnetized free layer and an in-plane magnetized pinned layer are investigated by analytically solving the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-05 Tomohiro Taniguchi , Takahiro Ito , Yasuhiro Utsumi , Sumito Tsunegi , Hitoshi Kubota

The spin orbit coupling spin torque consists of the field-like [REF: S.G. Tan et al., arXiv:0705.3502, (2007).] and the damping-like terms [REF: H. Kurebayashi et al., Nature Nanotechnology 9, 211 (2014).] that have been widely studied for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-16 Seng Ghee Tan , Mansoor B. A. Jalil

In all-perpendicular spin valve nanopillars the probability density of the free-layer magnetization is independent of the azimuthal angle and its evolution equation simplifies considerably compared to the general, nonaxisymmetric geometry.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-08 Michail Tzoufras

The magnetization dynamics of spin torque oscillator (STO) consisting of a perpendicularly magnetized free layer and an in-plane magnetized pinned layer was studied by solving the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation. We derived the analytical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-07 Tomohiro Taniguchi , Hiroko Arai , Hitoshi Kubota , Hiroshi Imamura

Understanding and controlling spin relaxation in molecular qubits is essential for developing chemically tunable quantum information platforms. We present a fully first-principles framework for computing the spin relaxation tensor in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Roman Dmitriev , Nosheen Younas , Yu Zhang , Andrei Piryatinski , Eric R. Bittner

Precessing magnetization in a thin film magnetic insulator pumps spins into adjacent metals; however, this phenomenon is not quantitatively understood. We present a theory for the dependence of spin-pumping on the transverse mode number and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-29 André Kapelrud , Arne Brataas

The magnetic reversal by spin-polarized current of a magnetic junction consisting of two ferromagnetic layers and a nonmagnetic spacer in between is considered. Initially, the free layer is magnetized antiparallel to the pinned layer by an…

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

We analyze the statistical distribution of switching durations in spin-transfer switching induced by current steps, and discuss biasing strategies to enhance the reproducibility of switching durations. We use a macrospin approximation and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Devolder , C. Chappert , K. Ito