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Accurate quantification of the spin-orbit torques (SOTs) is critical for the identification and applications of new spin-orbitronic effects. One of the most popular techniques to qualify the SOTs is the switching angle shift, where the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-10 Xiaomiao Yin , Guanglei Han , Guowen Gong , Jun Kang , Changmin Xiong , Lijun Zhu

A theory of spin-polarized electron transport in ferromagnet-semiconductor heterostructures, based on a unified semiclassical description of ballistic and diffusive transport in semiconductors, is outlined. The aim is to provide a framework…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Lipperheide , U. Wille

We model the electron and hole spin dynamics in an undoped double quantum dot structure, considering the carrier tunneling between quantum dots. Taking into account also the presence of an in-plane or tilted magnetic field, we provide the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-15 Michał Gawełczyk , Paweł Machnikowski

Magnetoresistance measurements on the magnetic semiconductor (In,Mn)Sb suggest that magnetic scattering in this material is dominated by isolated Mn$^{2+}$ ions located outside the ferromagnetically-ordered regions when the system is below…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Csontos , T. Wojtowicz , X. Liu , M. Dobrowolska B. Jankó , J. K. Furdyna , G. Mihály

Spin transfer - the transfer of angular momentum from spin-polarized electrical current to magnetic materials - has been extensively researched as an efficient mechanism for the electronic manipulation of the static and dynamic states in…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-27 Andrei Zholud , Ryan Freeman , Rongxing Cao , Ajit Srivastava , Sergei Urazhdin

We investigated the magnetization reversal of a perpendicularly magnetized nanodevice using a chirped current pulse (CCP) via spin-orbit torques (SOT). Our findings demonstrate that both the field-like (FL) and damping-like (DL) components…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-15 Y. D. Liu , M. T. Islam , T. Min , X. S. Wang , X. R. Wang

Spin-orbit torque (SOT)-based perpendicularly magnetized memory devices with multistate memory have garnered significant interest due to their applicability in low-power in-memory analog computing. However, current methods are hindered by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Raghvendra Posti , Chirag Kalouni , Dhananjay K Tiwari , Debangsu Roy

We suggest a new spin orientation mechanism for localized electrons: $dynamic~electron~spin~polarization~provided~by~nuclear~spin~fluctuations$. The angular momentum for the electrons is gained from the nuclear spin system via the hyperfine…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-14 D. S. Smirnov , T. S. Shamirzaev , D. R. Yakovlev , M. Bayer

The shot noise of spin polarized electrons is shown to be generically dependent upon spin-flip processes. Such a situation represents perhaps the simplest instance where the two-particle character of current fluctuations out of equilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Lamacraft

The influence of a single magnetic cluster in a non-magnetic host metal on the spin current $\mathbf{j}^{(s)}$ and the charge current $\mathbf{j}$ in the vicinity of a ferromagnetic STM tip is studied theoretically. Spin-flip processes due…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Ye. S. Avotina , Yu. A. Kolesnichenko , J. M. van Ruitenbeek

Periodic laser pulsing of singly charged semiconductor quantum dots in an external magnetic field leads to a synchronization of the spin dynamics with the optical excitation. The pumped electron spins partially rephase prior to each laser…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-04 Iris Kleinjohann , Eiko Evers , Philipp Schering , Alex Greilich , Götz S. Uhrig , Manfred Bayer , Frithjof B. Anders

Current-voltage characteristics of a spintromechanical device, in which spin-polarized electrons tunnel between magnetic leads with anti-parallel magnetization through a single level movable quantum dot, are calculated. New exchange- and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Olya A. Ilinskaya , Danko Radic , Hee Chul Park , Ilya V. Krive , Robert I. Shekhter , Mats Jonson

Femtosecond (fs) coherent control of collective order parameters is important for non--equilibrium phase dynamics in correlated materials. Here we propose a possible scheme for fs control of a ferromagnetic order parameter based on…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-27 P. C. Lingos , J. Wang , I. E. Perakis

While early magnetic memory designs relied on magnetization switching by locally generated magnetic fields, key insights in condensed matter physics later suggested the possibility to do it electrically. In the 1990s, Slonczewzki and Berger…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-11-01 Albert Fert , Ramamoorthy Ramesh , Vincent Garcia , Fèlix Casanova , Manuel Bibes

We measured the spin-orbit torques (SOTs), current-induced switching, and domain wall (DW) motion in synthetic ferrimagnets consisting of Co/Tb layers with differing stacking order grown on a Pt underlayer. We find that the SOTs, magnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-06 Mickey Martini , Can Onur Avci , Silvia Tacchi , Charles-Henri Lambert , Pietro Gambardella

Current-induced spin-orbit torque (SOT) is regarded as a promising mechanism for driving neuromorphic behavior in spin-orbitronic devices. In principle, the strong SOT in heavy metal-based magnetic heterostructure is attributed to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-31 Tian-Yue Chen , Yu-Chan Hsiao , Wei-Bang Liao , Chi-Feng Pai

Recently, spin-transfer torque (STT) based magnetization switching has been widely utilized in magnetic resistance-based memories, which have broad applications in microcontroller units and other devices. This study utilizes a macrospin…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-18 Tomoki Watanabe , Keisuke Yamada , Yoshinobu Nakatani

Spin polarized current may transfer angular momentum to a ferromagnet, resulting in a spin-torque phenomenon. At the same time the shot noise, associated with the current, leads to a non-equilibrium stochastic force acting on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. L. Chudnovskiy , J. Swiebodzinski , A. Kamenev

In an inhomogeneously doped magnetic semiconductor, an interplay between an equilibrium magnetization and injected nonequilibrium spin leads to the spin-voltaic effect--a spin analogue of the photo-voltaic effect. By reversing either the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Igor Zutic , Jaroslav Fabian

Field-free switching of perpendicular magnetization has been observed in an epitaxial L1$_1$-ordered CoPt/CuPt bilayer and attributed to spin-orbit torque (SOT) arising from the crystallographic $3m$ point group of the interface. Using a…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-31 Wuzhang Fang , Edward Schwartz , Alexey A. Kovalev , K. D. Belashchenko