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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

Vortices and antivortices are typical non uniform magnetization configurations that can be achieved in spin-torque oscillators with in-plane materials. Dynamics of a vortex-antivortex pair, namely vortex dipole, were predicted and already…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-07-04 A. Giordano , V. Puliafito , L. Torres , M. Carpentieri , B. Azzerboni , G. Finocchio

We perform a comparative study of spin transfer induced excitation of the gyrotropic motion of a vortex core with either uniform or vortex spin polarizers. The microwave output voltage associated with the vortex dynamics, detected in both…

In the present study, we investigate a dynamical mode beyond the gyrotropic (G) motion of a magnetic vortex core in a confined magnetic disk of a nano-pillar spin torque nano oscillator. It is characterized by the in-plane circular…

Spin transfer torque-induced high-frequency dynamics of single thin cobalt-layer nanopillars of circular and elliptical shape have been observed directly. Two types of precessional modes can be identified as a function of magnetic field…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-01-13 N. Müsgens , S. Fahrendorf , T. Maassen , A. Heiss , J. Mayer , B. Özyilmaz , B. Beschoten , G. Güntherodt

A vortex-antivortex (VA) dipole may be generated due to a spin-polarized current flowing through a nano-aperture in a magnetic element. We study the vortex dipole dynamics using the Landau-Lifshitz equation in the presence of an in-plane…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-19 Stavros Komineas

Spin torque from spin current applied to a nanoscale region of a ferromagnet can act as negative magnetic damping and thereby excite self-oscillations of its magnetization. In contrast, spin torque uniformly applied to the magnetization of…

In planar nano-magnetic devices magnetization direction is kept close to a given plane by the large easy-plane magnetic anisotropy, for example by the shape anisotropy in a thin film. In this case magnetization shows effectively in-plane…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-06-24 Ya. B. Bazaliy , D. Olaosebikan , B. A. Jones

We study a nonlinear spin dynamics of a ferromagnetic ring in a vortex state induced by the spin-polarized current. We also suggest to use the ferromagnetic ring as a free layer of a coreless vortex spin-transfer nano-oscillator. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-08 Vera Uzunova , Boris A. Ivanov

Spin-orbit coupling stands as a pivotal determinant in the realm of condensed matter physics. In recent, its profound influence on spin dynamics opens up a captivating arena with promising applications. Notably, the topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-06 Taekoo Oh , Naoto Nagaosa

We report a study on the complete spin-wave spectrum inside a vortex state nano-disk. Transformation of this spectrum is continuously monitored as the nano-disk becomes gradually magnetized by a perpendicular magnetic field and encouters a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-01 Boris Taurel , Thierry Valet , Vladimir V. Naletov , Nicolas Vukadinovic , Grégoire de Loubens , Olivier Klein

We investigate vortex configuration in antiferromagnetic thin discs. It is shown that the vortex acquires oscillatory dynamics with well-defined amplitude and frequency which may be controlled on demand by an alternating spin polarized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-19 R. L. Silva , R. C. Silva , R. J. C. Lopes , W. A. Moura-Melo , A. R. Pereira

We discuss a possible mechanism of the spin-transfer induced oscillations of a vortex in the free layer of spin-valve nanostructures, in which the polarizer layer has a planar magnetization. We demonstrate that if such planar polarizer is…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-18 A. V. Khvalkovskiy , J. Grollier , N. Locatelli , Ya. V. Gorbunov , K. A. Zvezdin , V. Cros

Micromagnetic simulations are used to study a spin-torque vortex oscillator excited by an out-of-plane dc current. The vortex core gyration amplitude is confined between two orbits due to periodical vortex core polarity reversals. The upper…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-31 Chloé Chopin , Simon de Wergifosse , Anatole Moureaux , Flavio Abreu Araujo

We study the dynamics of a spin torque nano oscillator that consists of parallelly magnetized free and pinned layers by numerically solving the associated Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert-Slonczewski equation in the presence of a field-like torque.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 R. Arun , R. Gopal , V. K. Chandrasekar , M. Lakshmanan

This paper concerns an investigation of the spin wave excitations in magnetic nanoparticles. We provide a detailed derivation of the theoretical method for the determination of the normal modes of confined magnetic systems based on a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-21 Sławomir Mamica

Switching of the direction of the magnetic moment in a nanomagnet is studied within a modified Slonczewski's model that permits torsional oscillations of the magnet. We show that the latter may inhibit or assist the magnetization switching,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-03 Liufei Cai , Reem Jaafar , Eugene M. Chudnovsky

In this paper, we propose to control the strength of phase-locking between two dipolarly coupled vortex based spin-torque nano-oscillators by placing an intermediate oscillator between them. We show through micromagnetic simulations that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Flavio Abreu Araujo , Julie Grollier

A spin-polarized current with the polarization perpendicular to the plane of a vortex-state disk results in renormalization of the effective damping for a given magnetization mode, and the effective damping becomes zero if the current…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 B. A. Ivanov , C. E. Zaspel

We report on large modifications of current-induced spin-orbit torques in a gated Pt/Co/Gd-oxide microstrip due to voltage-driven O$^{2-}$ migration. The Slonczewski-like and field-like torques are quantified using a low-frequency harmonic…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-12-04 Satoru Emori , Uwe Bauer , Seonghoon Woo , Geoffrey S. D. Beach