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Magnetization switching in ferromagnetic structures is an important process for technical applications such as data storage in spintronics, and therefore the determination of the corresponding switching rates becomes essential. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-15 Johannes Mögerle , Robin Schuldt , Johannes Reiff , Jörg Main , Rigoberto Hernandez

Thermally induced magnetization dynamics is currently a flourishing field of research due to its potential application in information technology. We study the paradigmatic system of a magnetic domain wall in a thermal gradient which is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-02-08 I. V. Bobkova , A. M. Bobkov , Wolfgang Belzig

We propose a theoretical model of magnetization switching in a ferromagnetic multilayer by both electric current and microwaves. The electric current gives a spin transfer torque on the magnetization, while the microwaves induce a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-22 Tomohiro Taniguchi , Daisuke Saida , Yoshinobu Nakatani , Hitoshi Kubota

The magnetization dynamics of a single domain ferromagnet in contact with a thermal bath is studied by scattering theory. We recover the Landau-Liftshitz-Gilbert equation and express the effective fields and Gilbert damping tensor in terms…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-01 Arne Brataas , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

Energy dissipation is studied for a hard magnetic tip that scans a soft magnetic substrate. The dynamics of the atomic moments are simulated by solving the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation numerically. The local energy currents are…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-06-27 Martin P. Magiera , Lothar Brendel , Dietrich E. Wolf , Ulrich Nowak

In spin-transfer torque (STT) for technological applications, the miniaturization of the magnet may reach the stage of requiring a fully quantum-mechanical treatment. We present an STT theory which uses the quantum macrospin ground and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-10 Tiamhock Tay , L. J. Sham

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 present efficient numerical methods for the simulation of small magnetization oscillations in three-dimensional micromagnetic systems. Magnetization dynamics is described by the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation, linearized in the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Massimiliano d'Aquino , Riccardo Hertel

Terahertz spintronics offers the prospect of devices which are both faster and more energy-efficient. A promising route to achieve this goal is to exploit current-induced spin-orbit torques. However, the high-frequency properties of these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-21 Filipe S. M. Guimarães , Juba Bouaziz , Manuel dos Santos Dias , Samir Lounis

Recent studies have found that fluctuations of magnetization transfer in integrable spin chains violate the central limit property. Here we revisit the problem of anomalous counting statistics in the Landau-Lifshitz field theory by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-05 Žiga Krajnik , Johannes Schmidt , Enej Ilievski , Tomaž Prosen

The magnetization reversal and dynamics of a spin valve pillar, whose lateral size is 64$\times$64 nm$^2$, are studied by using micromagnetic simulation in the presence of spin transfer torque. Spin torques display both characteristics of…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Z. Li , S. Zhang

In the framework of the Landau-Lifshitz equations without any dissipation (an approximation which may also be helpful for finite but weak Gilbert damping), with all interactions included, for general ground states, geometries and domain…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-31 U. Krey

Operation parameters of magnetic quantum cellular automata are evaluated for the purposes of reliable logic operation. The dynamics of the nanomagnets is simulated via the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equations with a stochastic magnetic field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-30 Federico M. Spedalieri , Ajey P. Jacob , Dmitri Nikonov , Vwani P. Roychowdhury

We study the spin- and energy dynamics in one-dimensional spin-1/2 systems induced by local quantum quenches at finite temperatures using a time-dependent density matrix renormalization group method. System sizes are chosen large enough to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-18 C. Karrasch , J. E. Moore , F. Heidrich-Meisner

The Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation, used to model magneto-dynamics in ferromagnets, tacitly assumes that the angular momentum associated with spin precession can relax instantaneously when the real or effective magnetic field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-20 Rahnuma Rahman , Supriyo Bandyopadhyay

Driving nanomagnets by spin-polarized currents offers exciting prospects in magnetoelectronics, but the response of the magnets to such currents remains poorly understood. We show that an averaged equation describing the diffusion of energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-20 Katherine Newhall , Eric Vanden-Eijnden

In ferromagnets, charge currents can excite magnons via the spin-orbit coupling. We develop a novel and general scattering theory of charge current induced macrospin magnetization torques in normal metal$|$ferromagnet$|$normal metal layers.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-10 Kjetil M. D. Hals , Arne Brataas , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

In this work, we investigated the spin dynamics in a slab of chiral magnets induced by an alternating (ac) spin current. Periodic trajectories of the skyrmion in real space are discovered under the ac current as a result of the Magnus and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-07 Rui Zhu , Yin-Yan Zhang

We present a theory of magnetization dynamics driven by spin-polarized current in terms of the quantum master equation. In the spin coherent state representation, the master equation becomes a Fokker-Planck equation, which naturally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Yong Wang , L. J. Sham

A formulation for thermal noise in the stochastic form of the Landau Lifshitz Bloch equation used for modeling the magnetization dynamics at elevated temperatures is presented. The diffusion coefficients for thermal fluctuations are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-16 Marco Menarini , Vitaliy Lomakin