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The spin-transfer effect is investigated for the vortex state of a magnetic nanodot. A spin current is shown to act similarly to an effective magnetic field perpendicular to the nanodot. Then a vortex with magnetization (polarity) parallel…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Jean-Guy Caputo , Yuri Gaididei , Franz G. Mertens , Denis D. Sheka

We introduce a new class of spintronics devices in which a spin-valve like effect results from strong spin-orbit coupling in a single ferromagnetic layer rather than from injection and detection of a spin-polarized current by two coupled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Gould , C. Rüster , T. Jungwirth , E. Girgis , G. M. Schott , R. Giraud , K. Brunner , G. Schmidt , L. W. Molenkamp

Recent works aiming at understanding magnetotransport phenomena in ferromagnetic III-V and II-VI semiconductors are described. Theory of the anomalous Hall effect in p-type magnetic semiconductors is discussed, and the relative role of…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Tomasz Dietl , Fumihiro Matsukura , Hideo Ohno , Joel Cibert , David Ferrand

We propose an effect whereby an electric current along the interface between a ferromagnetic and normal metal leads to injection of pure spin current into the normal metal, if the magnetization-direction in the ferromagnet varies along the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-28 E. van der Bijl , R. E. Troncoso , R. A. Duine

This study reports the magnetization switching induced by spin-orbit torque (SOT) from the spin current generated in Co2MnGa magnetic Weyl semimetal (WSM) thin films. We deposited epitaxial Co2MnGa thin films with highly B2-ordered…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-09 Ke Tang , Zhenchao Wen , Yong-Chang Lau , Hiroaki Sukegawa , Takeshi Seki , Seiji Mitani

We have studied the magnetization reversal process in FM/AFM bilayer structures through of spin dynamics simulation. It has been observed that the magnetization behavior is different at each branch of the hysteresis loop as well as the…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-03-24 E. B. Santos , P. Z. Coura , R. A. Dias , S. A. Leonel , J. C. S. Rocha

Experiments on a nearly spin degenerate two-dimensional electron system reveals unusual hysteretic and relaxational transport in the fractional quantum Hall effect regime. The transition between the spin-polarized (with fill fraction $\nu =…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Eom , H. Cho , W. Kang , K. L. Campman , A. C. Gossard , M. Bichler , W. Wegscheider

Spin Hall effect and its inverse provide essential means to convert charge to spin currents and vice versa, which serve as a primary function for spintronic phenomena such as the spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance and the spin Seebeck…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-03 Yasuhiro Niimi , YoshiChika Otani

Spin Hall magnetoresistance (SMR) refers to a resistance change in a metallic film reflecting the magnetization direction of a magnet attached to the film. The mechanism of this phenomenon is spin exchange between conduction-electron spins…

Equilibrium magnetization states in thin spherical shells of a magnetically soft ferromagnet are determined by the competition between two interactions: (i) The local exchange interaction favours the more homogeneous onion state with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-23 Mykola I. Sloika , Denis D. Sheka , Volodymyr P. Kravchuk , Oleksandr V. Pylypovskyi , Yuri Gaididei

Ultrafast laser-induced magnetic switching in rare earth, transition metal ferrimagnetic alloys has recently been reported to occur by ultrafast heating alone. Using atomistic simulations and a ferrimagnetic Landau-Lifshitz-Bloch formalism,…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-05 U. Atxitia , T. Ostler , J. Barker , R. F. L. Evans , R. W. Chantrell , O. Chubykalo-Fesenko

A magnetic particle with atomic spins ordered in an unstable direction is an example of a false vacuum that decays via excitation of internal spin waves. Coupled evolution of the particle's magnetization (or the vacuum state) and spin…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-05-05 D. A. Garanin , H. Kachkachi , L. Reynaud

An electrical current can transfer spin angular momentum to a ferromagnet. This novel physical phenomenon, called spin transfer, offers unprecedented spatial and temporal control over the magnetic state of a ferromagnet and has tremendous…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. Wei , A. Sharma , A. S. Nunez , P. M. Haney , R. A. Duine , J. Bass , A. H. MacDonald , M. Tsoi

We consider interaction effects related to a nonuniform magnetization in ferromagnetic nanowires and their possible generalization to nanorings. First we show that the electric current in a ferromagnetic nanowire with more than one domain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-17 Nicholas Sedlmayr , Vitalii Dugaev , Jamal Berakdar

We present the current-induced switching of the internal magnetization direction in a magnetic topological insulator/topological insulator heterostructure in the quantum anomalous Hall regime. The switching process is based on the bias…

According to the spin-torque model, current-driven magnetic dynamics in ferromagnetic multilayers is determined by the transfer of electron spin perpendicular to the layers' magnetizations. By separating the largest contributions to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Urazhdin

We study the spin mixing dynamics of ultracold spin-1 atoms in a weak non-uniform magnetic field with field gradient $G$, which can flip the spin from +1 to -1 so that the magnetization $m=\rho_{+}-\rho_{-}$ is not any more a constant. The…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-04-06 Jie Zhang , Baoguo Yang , Yunbo Zhang

All-optical ultrafast magnetization switching in magnetic material thin film without the assistance of an applied external magnetic field is being explored for future ultrafast and energy-efficient magnetic storage and memories. It has been…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-08 S. Iihama , Y. Xu , M. Deb , G. Malinowski , M. Hehn , J. Gorchon , E. E. Fullerton , S. Mangin

Motivated by recent experimental work on magnetic properties of Si-MOSFETs, we report a calculation of magnetisation and susceptibility of electrons in an inversion layer, taking into account the co-ordinate dependence of electron wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-10 D. I. Golosov

We consider quasi-two-dimensional gas of electrons in a typical Si-MOSFET, assuming repulsive contact interaction between electrons. Magnetisation and susceptibility are evaluated within the mean-field approach. Finite thickness of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 D. I. Golosov