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We report a numerical implementation of the Landau-Lifshitz-Baryakhtar theory, which dictates that the micromagnetic relaxation term obeys the symmetry of the magnetic crystal, i. e. replacing the single intrinsic damping constant with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-17 Mykola Dvornik , Arne Vansteenkiste , Bartel Van Waeyenberge

We study the dynamics of spin valves consisting of two layers of magnetic insulators separated by a normal metal in the macrospin model. A current through the spacer generates a spin Hall current that can actuate the magnetization via the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-19 Hans Skarsvåg , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Arne Brataas

The mechanisms of the magnetization switching of magnetic multilayers driven by a current are studied by including exchange interaction between local moments and spin accumulation of conduction electrons. It is found that this exchange…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Zhang , P. M. Levy , A. Fert

Dynamic relaxation for nonlinear magnetization excitation is analyzed. For direct processes, such as magnon-electron scattering and two-magnon scattering, the relaxation rate is determined from the linear case simply by utilizing the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Vladimir L. Safonov , H. Neal Bertram

In the context of spin electronics, the two spin-channel model assumes that the spin carriers are composed of two distinct populations: the conduction electrons of spin up, and the conduction electrons of spin down. In order to distinguish…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. -E. Wegrowe , H. -J. Drouhin

We find that the damping of micromechanical cantilevers is sensitive to the relaxation dynamics of paramagnetic ions contained within the levers. We measure cantilevers containing paramagnetic Mn ions as a function of temperature, magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. G. E. Harris , R. Knobel , K. D. Maranowski , A. C. Gossard , N. Samarth , D. D. Awschalom

Laser-induced magnetization precession measurements in ferromagnets often reveal an anomalous decrease in the damping time near a field-induced second-order spin-orientation transition, a behavior that cannot be described by the linearized…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-31 P. I. Gerevenkov , Ia. A. Filatov , L. A. Shelukhin , P. A. Dvortsova , A. M. Kalashnikova

We observe and analyze tunable relaxation of a pure spin current by an antiferromagnet in spin-valves. This is achieved by carefully controlling the angle between a resonantly excited ferromagnetic layer pumping the spin current and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 Dmytro M. Polishchuk , Akashdeep Kamra , Taras I. Polek , Arne Brataas , Vladislav Korenivski

The mode dependence of current-induced magnetic excitations in spin valves is studied theoretically. The torque exerted on the magnetization by transverse spin currents as well as the Gilbert damping constant are found to depend strongly on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Arne Brataas , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

We show that, in ideal-spin hydrodynamics, the components of the spin tensor follow damped wave equations. The damping rate is related to nonlocal collisions of the particles in the fluid, which enter at first order in $\hbar$ in a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-02-10 David Wagner , Masoud Shokri , Dirk H. Rischke

The spin transfer torque in all-metal dual spin valve, in which two antiparallelly aligned pinned ferromagnetic layers are on the two sides of a free ferromagnetic layer with two thin nonmagnetic spacers in between, is studied in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-06-23 P. Yan , Z. Z. Sun , X. R. Wang

Slow magnetic relaxation and two level fluctuations measurements under high current injection is performed in single-contacted ferromagnetic nanostructures. The magnetic configurations of the samples are described by two metastable states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. -E. Wegrowe

Spin-transfer torque and current induced spin dynamics in spin-valve nanopillars with the free magnetic layer located between two magnetic films of fixed magnetic moments is considered theoretically. The spin-transfer torque in the limit of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-12 Pavel Balaz , Martin Gmitra , Jozef Barnas

Damping in magnetization dynamics characterizes the dissipation of magnetic energy and is essential for improving the performance of spintronics-based devices. While the damping of ferromagnets has been well studied and can be artificially…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-11-15 Qian Liu , H. Y. Yuan , Ke Xia , Zhe Yuan

We present experimental and numerical micromagnetic data on the effect of spin momentum transfer in current perpendicular to the plane spin valves. Starting from a configuration with orthogonal free and pinned layer magnetizations, the free…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Covington , A. Rebei , G. J. Parker , M. A. Seigler

By numerically solving the equations of motion for atomic spins we show that internal spin-wave processes in large enough magnetic particles, initially in unstable states, lead to complete magnetization reversal and thermalization. The…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-01-10 D. A. Garanin , H. Kachkachi

Spin-transfer is a typical spintronics effect that allows a ferromagnetic layer to be switched by spin-injection. Most of the experimental results about spin transfer are described on the basis of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 J. -E. Wegrowe , C. Ciornei , H. -J. Drouhin

The dynamics of the magnetic order parameters of ferromagnet/normal-metal/ferromagnet spin valves and isolated ferromagnets may be very different. We investigate the role of the nonequilibrium spin-current exchange between the ferromagnets…

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

Static and dynamic properties of magnetically soft amorphous ferromagnets have been studied analytically and numerically within random-field and random-anisotropy models. External field and coherent anisotropy that are weak compared to…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-14 Eugene M. Chudnovsky , Dmitry A. Garanin

We investigate theoretically the spin torque and magnetization dynamic in a thin ferromagnetic (FM) layer with spatially varying magnetization. The FM layer is deposited on the surface of a topological insulator (TI). In the limit of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-29 Ji Chen , Mansoor Bin Abdul Jalil , Seng Ghee Tan