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Ferromagnetic resonance driven spin pumping of pure spin currents from a ferromagnet into a nonmagnetic material promises new spin-functional devices with low energy consumption. The mechanism of spin pumping is under intense investigation…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-05-20 C. H. Du , H. L. Wang , Y. Pu , T. L. Meyer , P. M. Woodward , F. Y. Yang , P. C. Hammel

Spin-transfer-torque, a transfer of angular momentum between the electron spin and the local magnetic moments, is a promising and key mechanism to control ferromagnetic materials in modern spintronic devices . However, much less attention…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-02-20 T. Moriyama , M. Nagata , K. Tanaka , K-J. Kim , H. Almasi , W. Wang , T. Ono

Ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) driven spin pumping is an emerging technique for injection of a pure spin current from a ferromagnet (FM) into a non-magnetic (NM) material without an accompanying charge current. It is widely believed that…

Reversing the magnetization of a ferromagnet by spin transfer from a current, rather than by applying a magnetic field, is the central idea of an extensive current research. After a review of our experiments of current-induced magnetization…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Fert , V. Cros , J. -M. George , J. Grollier , H. Jaffres , A. Hamzic , A. Vaures , G. Faini , J. Ben Youssef , H. Le Gall

We report direct electrical detection of spin pumping, using a lateral normal metal/ferromagnet/normal metal device, where a single ferromagnet in ferromagnetic resonance pumps spin polarized electrons into the normal metal, resulting in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. V. Costache , M. Sladkov , S. M. Watts , C. H. van der Wal , B. J. van Wees

Spin pumping is a widely recognized method to generate the spin current in the spintronics, which is acknowledged as a fundamentally dynamic process equivalent to the spin-transfer torque. In this work, we theoretically verify that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Chunlei Zhang , Jianing Wang , Chendong Jin , Haiyan Xia , Jianbo Wang , Qingfang Liu

In this review, we present recent theoretical developments on spin transport phenomena probed by ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) modulation in two-dimensional systems coupled to magnetic materials. We first address FMR linewidth enhancements…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Yuya Ominato , Masaki Yama , Ai Yamakage , Mamoru Matsuo , Takeo Kato

Orbital angular momentum has recently emerged as an important carrier of angular momentum in solids, offering new pathways for spin orbitronic functionality beyond conventional spin transport. Here, we investigate the orbital Hall effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-13 Abhishek Erram , Akanksha Chouhan , Ashwin A. Tulapurkar

Spin-orbit torques offer a promising mechanism for electrically controlling magnetization dynamics in nanoscale heterostructures. While spin-orbit torques occur predominately at interfaces, the physical mechanisms underlying these torques…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 Vivek P. Amin , Paul M. Haney , Mark D. Stiles

We observe and analyze tunable relaxation of a pure spin current by an antiferromagnet in spin-valves. This is achieved by carefully controlling the angle between a resonantly excited ferromagnetic layer pumping the spin current and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 Dmytro M. Polishchuk , Akashdeep Kamra , Taras I. Polek , Arne Brataas , Vladislav Korenivski

Current-driven spin torques in metallic spin-valves composed of antiferromagnets are theoretically studied using the non-equilibrium Green's function method implemented on a tight-binding model. We focus our attention on G-type and L-type…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Hamed Ben Mohamed Saidaoui , Xavier Waintal , Aurelien Manchon

In ferromagnet/normal metal heterostructures, spin pumping and spin-transfer torques are two reciprocal processes that occur concomitantly. Their interplay introduces a dynamic feedback effect interconnecting energy dissipation channels of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-25 Ran Cheng , Jian-Gang Zhu , Di Xiao

We formulate a theory of spin-transfer torques in antiferromagnets, which covers the small to large limits of the exchange coupling energy relative to the kinetic energy of the inter-sublattice electron dynamics. Our theory suggests a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-10 Yuta Yamane , Jun'ichi Ieda , Jairo Sinova

Antiferromagnetic insulators can become active spintronics components by controlling and detecting their dynamics via spin currents in adjacent metals. This cross-talk occurs via spin-transfer and spin-pumping, phenomena that have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 Arne Brataas , Hans Skarsvåg , Erlend G. Tveten , Eirik Løhaugen Fjærbu

Spin-orbit coupling enables charge currents to give rise to spin currents and vice versa, which has applications in non-volatile magnetic memories, miniature microwave oscillators, thermoelectric converters and Terahertz devices. In the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Angie Davidson , Vivek P. Amin , Wafa S. Aljuaid , Paul M. Haney , Xin Fan

We consider a small itinerant ferromagnet exposed to an external magnetic field and strongly driven by a thermally induced spin current. For this model, we derive the quasi-classical equations of motion for the magnetization where the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Tim Ludwig , Igor S. Burmistrov , Yuval Gefen , Alexander Shnirman

Recent theories of spin-current-induced magnetization reversal are formulated in terms of a spin-mixing conductance $G^{mix}$. We evaluate $G^{mix}$ from first-principles for a number of (dis)ordered interfaces between magnetic and…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 K. Xia , P. J. Kelly , G. E. W. Bauer , A. Brataas , I. Turek

The spin flip of the conduction electrons at the interface of a ferromagnetic and a nonmagnetic part of a metallic wire, suspended between two electrodes, is shown to tort the wire when a current is driven through it. In order to enhance…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-10-26 Peter Fulde , Stefan Kettemann

Motivated by recent experiments on spin pumping from a ferromagnet into organic materials in which the charge transport is due to hopping, we study theoretically the generation and propagation of spin current in a hopping insulator. Unlike…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-05 Z. Yue , D. A. Pesin , M. E. Raikh

We investigate two schemes for pumping spin adiabatically from a ferromagnet through an interacting quantum dot into a normal lead, which exploit the possibility to vary in time the ferromagnet's magnetization, either its amplitude or its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-17 Nina Winkler , Michele Governale , Jürgen König