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Landau damping is the mechanism of plasma and beam stabilization; it arises through energy transfer from collective modes to the incoherent motion of resonant particles. Normally this resonance requires the resonant particle's frequency to…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-01-31 Alexandru Macridin , Alexey Burov , Eric Stern , James Amundson , Panagiotis Spentzouris

Magnetic nanodevices usually include a free layer whose configuration can be changed by spin-polarized current via the spin transfer effect, and a fixed reference layer. Here, we demonstrate that the roles of the free and the reference…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-10-07 Weng Lee Lim , Andrew Higgins , Sergei Urazhdin

The effect of undesirable high-frequency free-layer switching in magnetic multilayer systems, referred to as back hopping, is investigated by means of the spin-diffusion model. A possible origin of the back-hopping effect is found to be the…

A theory for calculating spin wave relaxation times based on the magnon-electron interaction is developed. The theory incorporates a thin film geometry and is valid for a large range of magnon frequencies and wave vectors. For high…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Misra , R. H. Victora

Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) and low magnetic damping are the key factors for the free layer magnetization switching by spin transfer torque technique in magnetic tunnel junction devices. The magnetization precessional dynamics…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-15 B. Samantaray , Akhilesh K. Singh , A. Perumal , R. Ranganathan , P. Mandal

The kinetic damping mechanism of low frequency transverse perturbations propagating parallel to the magnetic field in a magnetized warm electron plasma is simulated by means of electromagnetic (EM) Vlasov simulations. The short-time-scale…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-10-26 Anjan Paul , Devendra Sharma

The key physics of the spin valve involves spin-polarized conduction electrons propagating between two magnetic layers such that the device conductance is controlled by the relative magnetization orientation of two magnetic layers. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 H. Wu , L. Huang , C. Fang , B. S. Yang , C. H. Wan , G. Q. Yu , J. F. Feng , H. X. Wei , X. F. Han

The paper studies the spatial variation of the magnetization in a nonconducting magnetic sample with an excess number of magnons in comparison to the equilibrium. The phenomenon is considered using the Landau-Lifshits equation with…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-09-16 V. I. Sugakov

We investigate spin-orbit torques on magnetization in an insulating ferromagnetic (FM) layer that is brought into a close proximity to a topological insulator (TI). In addition to the well-known field-like spin-orbit torque, we identify an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 R. J. Sokolewicz , I. A. Ado , M. I. Katsnelson , P. M. Ostrovsky , M. Titov

We report a mechanical effect in spin-valve nanopillars due to spin transfer. A polarized current carrying electron spins transfers torque to local magnetization and leads to a magnetic switching of free layer. Like classical Einstein-de…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-02-21 Hao Yu

We present a complete theory of the spin torque phenomena in a ultrasmall nanomagnet coupled to non-collinear ferromagnetic electrodes through tunnelling junctions. This model system can be described by a simple microscopic model which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-22 O. Parcollet , X. Waintal

A new way of magnetization switching employing both the spin-transfer torque and the torque by a magnetic field is proposed. The solution of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation shows that the dynamics of the magnetization in the initial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Hirofumi Morise , Shiho Nakamura

In this paper we present an overview of recent progress made in the understanding of the spin-torque induced magnetization dynamics in nanodevices using mesoscopic micromagnetic simulations. We first specify how a spin-torque term may be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. V. Berkov , J. Miltat

In this letter we study the non-equilibrium spin dynamics in the non-integrable spin-1 XXZ chain, emerging after joining two macroscopic pure states with different magnetizations. Employing the so-called time-dependent variational principle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-02-26 Marko Medenjak , Jacopo De Nardis

We have considered linear kinetic theory including the electron spin properties in a magnetized plasma. The starting point is a mean field Vlasov-like equation, derived from a fully quantum mechanical treatment, where effects from the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-11-10 Joakim Lundin , Gert Brodin

Two ferromagnetic layers magnetically decoupled by a thick normal metal spacer layer can be, nevertheless, dynamically coupled via spin currents emitted by the spin-pump and absorbed through the spin-torque effects at the neighboring…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-14 A. A. Timopheev , Yu. G. Pogorelov , S. Cardoso , P. P. Freitas , G. N. Kakazei , N. A. Sobolev

We study the magnetization process in two-dimensional S=1/2 spin systems, to discuss the appearance of a plateau structure. The following three cases are considered: (1) the Heisenberg antiferromagnet and multiple-spin exchange model on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Tsutomu Momoi , Keisuke Totsuka

Valveless pumping assists in fluid transport in various organisms and engineering systems. In a previous work, to study the actuator impact effects on valveless pumping, we constructed a piecewise-linear lumped-parameter model for a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-06-24 Chi-Chung Wang , Tian-Shiang Yang

We use spin-torque resonance to probe simultaneously and separately the dynamics of a magnetic domain wall and of magnetic domains in a nanostripe magnetic tunnel junction. Thanks to the large associated resistance variations we are able to…

The spin transfer torque (STT) can lead to steady precession of magnetization without any external applied field in magnetic spin valve where the magnetic layer have very different spin diffusion length. This effect is associated with an…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 O. Boulle , V. Cros , J. Grollier , L. G. Pereira , C. Deranlot , F. Petroff , G. Faini , J. Barnas , A. Fert