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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 utilize a hybrid quantum-classical equation of motion approach to investigate the spin dynamics and spin-transfer torque in a spin valve under bias voltage. We show that the interplay between localized classical magnetic moments and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-28 Rudolf Smorka , Pavel Baláž , Michael Thoss , Martin Žonda

We explore spin and charge transport phenomena in two dimensional electron gas in presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling connected to two ideal Ferromagnetic leads. In particular we show through a combination of analytical and numerical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. P. Pareek

We have described the electron spin dynamics in the presence of Rashba spin- orbit interaction and disorder using the spin-density matrix method. We showed that in the Born approximation in the scattering amplitude the spin current is zero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Alexander Khaetskii

We utilize simulations of electron scattering by a chain of dynamical quantum spins, to analyze the interplay between the spin transfer effect and the magnetization dynamics. We show that the complex interactions between the spin-polarized…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-21 Neil Tramsen , Alexander Mitrofanov , Sergei Urazhdin

Spin-orbit interactions in two-dimensional electron liquids are responsible for many interesting transport phenomena in which particle currents are converted to spin polarizations and spin currents and viceversa. Prime examples are the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 K. Shen , R. Raimondi , G. Vignale

We use a perturbative approach to study the effects of interfacial spin-orbit coupling in magnetic multilayers by treating the two-dimensional Rashba model in a fully three-dimensional description of electron transport near an interface.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-04 Kyoung-Whan Kim , Kyung-Jin Lee , Jairo Sinova , Hyun-Woo Lee , M. D. Stiles

We consider the general Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert theory underlying the magnetization dynamics of a macrospin magnet subject to spin-torque effects and thermal fluctuations. Thermally activated dynamical properties are analyzed by averaging…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-07 Daniele Pinna , Andrew D. Kent , Daniel L. Stein

Ferromagnetic heterostructures provide an ideal platform to explore the nature of spin-orbit torques arising from the interplay mediated by itinerant electrons between a Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling and a ferromagnetic exchange…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-10 Xuhui Wang , Christian Ortiz Pauyac , Aurelien Manchon

The interface-induced magnetization damping of thin ferromagnetic films in contact with normal-metal layers is calculated from first principles for clean and disordered Fe/Au and Co/Cu interfaces. Interference effects arising from coherent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Zwierzycki , Y. Tserkovnyak , P. J. Kelly , A. Brataas , G. E. W. Bauer

The magnetoresistance of a low carrier density, disordered GaAs based two-dimensional (2D) electron gas has been measured in parallel magnetic fields up to 32 T. The feature in the resistance associated with the complete spin polarization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-09 B. A. Piot , D. K. Maude , U. Gennser , A. Cavanna , D. Mailly

Using irreversible thermodynamics we show that current-induced spin transfer torque within a magnetic domain implies spin pumping of current within that domain. This has experimental implications for samples both with conducting leads and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Wayne M. Saslow

Converting magnetization spin to orbital current often relies on strong spin-orbit interaction that may cause additional angular momentum dissipation. We report that coherent magnetization dynamics in magnetic nanostructures can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Chengyuan Cai , Hanchen Wang , Tao Yu

Spin-polarized electron transport driven by inhomogeneous magnetic dynamics is discussed in the limit of a large exchange coupling. Electron spins rigidly following the time-dependent magnetic profile experience spin-dependent fictitious…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Matthew Mecklenburg

We study theoretically the ultrafast spin dynamics of II-VI diluted magnetic semiconductors in the presence of spin-orbit interaction. Our goal is to explore the interplay or competition between the exchange $sd$-coupling and the spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Florian Ungar , Moritz Cygorek , Pablo I. Tamborenea , Vollrath Martin Axt

Spin pumping is the emission of a spin current by a magnetization dynamics while spin transfer stands for the excitation of magnetization by spin currents. Using Onsager's reciprocity relations we prove that spin pumping and spin-transfer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-07 Arne Brataas , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Paul J. Kelly

We study the in-plane transport of spin-polarized electrons in III-V semiconductor quantum wells. The spin dynamics is controlled by the spin-orbit interaction, which arises via the Dresselhaus (bulk asymmetry) and Rashba (well asymmetry)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-12 Semion Saikin , Min Shen , Ming-C. Cheng , Vladimir Privman

We consider a single-level quantum dot coupled to two leads which are ferromagnetic in general. Apart from tunneling processes conserving electron spin, we also include processes associated with spin-flip of tunneling electrons, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 Łukasz Karwacki , Józef Barnaś

Strong interest has arisen recently on low-dimensional systems with strong spin-orbit interaction due to their peculiar properties of interest for some spintronic applications. Here, the time evolution of the electron spin polarization of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Grimaldi

We study the effects of Rashba spin-orbit coupling on the spin torque induced by spin waves, which are the plane wave dynamics of magnetization. The spin torque is derived from linear response theory, and we calculate the dynamic spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-12-21 Nobuyuki Umetsu , Daisuke Miura , Akimasa Sakuma