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An important contribution to the thermoelectric and spin-caloric transport properties in magnetic materials at elevated temperatures is the formation of a spin-disordered state due to local moment fluctuations. This effect has not been…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-23 Roman Kováčik , Phivos Mavropoulos , Stefan Blügel

We measure the temperature, magnetic-field, and current dependence for the switching of nanomagnets by a spin-polarized current. Depending on current bias, switching can occur between either two static magnetic states or a static state and…

We study the effects of spin transfer on thermally activated dynamics of magnetic nanopillars with identical thicknesses of the magnetic layers. The symmetric nanopillars exhibit anomalous dependencies of switching statistics on magnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Weng L. Lim , Nicholas Anthony , Andrew Higgins , Sergei Urazhdin

We calculate the charge current generated by a temperature bias between the two ends of a tubular nanowire. We show that in the presence of a transversal magnetic field the current can change sign, i.e., electrons can either flow from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-25 Sigurdur Ingi Erlingsson , Andrei Manolescu , George Alexandru Nemnes , Jens H. Bardarson , David Sanchez

Recent experiments on spin torque oscillators have revealed interactions between multiple magnetodynamic modes, including mode-coexistence, mode-hopping, and temperature-driven cross-over between modes. Initial multimode theory has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Steven S. -L. Zhang , Ezio Iacocca , Olle Heinonen

Thermoelectric transport in nanoscale conductors is analyzed in terms of the response of the system to a thermo-mechanical field, first introduced by Luttinger, which couples to the electronic energy density. While in this approach the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-12 F. G. Eich , A. Principi , M. Di Ventra , G. Vignale

Temperature plays an important role in spin torque switching of magnetic tunnel junctions causing magnetization fluctuations that decrease the switching voltage but also introduce switching errors. Here we present a systematic study of the…

The spin-dependent thermoelectric properties of silicene nanoribbon heterostructures are investigated, in which the central conductor contains a random distribution of vacancies and is connected to two pristine leads of the same material,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 D. Zambrano , C. D. Núñez , P. A. Orellana , J. P. Ramos-Andrade , L. Rosales

We consider dc-electronic transport through a nanowire suspended between normal- and spin-polarized metal leads in the presence of an external magnetic field. We show that magnetomotive coupling between the electrical current through the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-05 Danko Radić , Anders Nordenfelt , Anatoli M. Kadigrobov , Robert I. Shekhter , Mats Jonson , Leonid Y. Gorelik

We calculate the charge and heat current associate with electrons, generated by a temperature gradient and chemical potential difference between two ends of a tubular nanowire of 30 nm radius in the presence of an external magnetic field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-15 Hadi Rezaie Heris , Movaffaq Kateb , Sigurdur I. Erlingsson , Andrei Manolescu

The influence of an asymmetric in-plane magnetic anisotropy on the thermally activated spin current is studied theoretically for two different systems; (i) the system consisting of a ferromagnetic insulator in a direct contact with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 L. Chotorlishvili , Z. Toklikishvili , S. R. Etesami , V. K. Dugaev , J. Barnas , J. Berakdar

We analyze an electronic nanoscale thermal machine driven by time-dependent environment: besides bias and gate voltage variations, we consider also the less prevailing time modulation of the couplings between leads and dot. We provide…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-18 A. -M. Daré , P. Lombardo

We consider effects of the spin degree of freedom on the nanomechanics of a single-electron transistor (SET) containing a nanometer-sized metallic cluster suspended between two magnetic leads. It is shown that in such a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Fedorets , L. Y. Gorelik , R. I. Shekhter , M. Jonson

We study the spin-dependent conductance of ballistic mesoscopic ring systems in the presence of an inhomogeneous magnetic field. We show that, for the setup proposed, even a small Zeeman splitting can lead to a considerable spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Markus Popp , Diego Frustaglia , Klaus Richter

The increasing need for efficient thermal management in nanoelectronics requires innovative thermal sensing solutions, as conventional sensors often exhibit nonlinear responses, low sensitivity, and complex calibration. We predict a…

Various types of mixed spin two-dimensional Heisenberg networks are investigated by means of Monte Carlo simulations. This study aims at interpreting quantitatively the thermodynamical properties of two-dimensional molecule-based magnets…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 B. Mombelli , O. Kahn , J. Leandri , Y. Leroyer , S. Mechkov , Y. Meurdesoif

Spin-transfer torques in a nanocontact to an extended magnetic film can create spin waves that condense to form dissipative droplet solitons. Here we report an experimental study of the temperature dependence of the current and applied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-07 Sergi Lendínez , Jinting Hang , Saül Vélez , Joan Manel Hernàndez , Dirk Backes , Andrew D. Kent , Ferran Macià

Magnetic response of the spin-$1/2$ cylindrical nanowire to the propagating magnetic field wave has been investigated by means of Monte Carlo simulation method based on Metropolis algorithm. The obtained microscopic spin configurations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-14 Erol Vatansever

Rectification of heat transfer in nanodevices can be realized by combining the system inherent anharmonicity with structural asymmetry. we analyze this phenomenon within the simplest anharmonic system -a spin-boson nanojunction model. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Dvira Segal , Abraham Nitzan

A sudden drop in mechanical friction, between an adsorbed nitrogen monolayer and a lead substrate, occurs when the lead passes through the superconducting transition temperature. We attribute this effect to a sudden drop at the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 J. B. Sokoloff , M. S. Tomassone , A. Widom