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Using the nascent concept of quantum spin-transfer torque [A. Zholud et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 119}, 257201 (2017); M. D. Petrovi\'{c} {\em et al.}, Phys. Rev. X {\bf 11}, 021062 (2021)], we demonstrate that a current pulse can be…

We examine a modified drift-diffusion formalism to describe spin transport near an ultrathin magnet whose thickness is similar to or less than the spin dephasing length. Most of the previous theories on spin torque assume the transverse…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Kyoung-Whan Kim

Spin-waves in antiferromagnets hold the prospects for the development of faster, less power-hungry electronics, as well as promising physics based on spin-superfluids and coherent magnon-condensates. For both these perspectives, addressing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-21 A. El Kanj , O. Gomonay , I. Boventer , P. Bortolotti , V. Cros , A. Anane , R. Lebrun

This paper presents the boundary conditions needed for drift-diffusion models to treat interfaces with spin-orbit coupling. Using these boundary conditions for heavy metal/ferromagnet bilayers, solutions of the drift-diffusion equations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 V. P. Amin , M. D. Stiles

A systematic microscopic theory of magnetically induced ferroelectricity and lattice modulation is presented for all electron configurations of Mott-insulating transition-metal oxides. Various mechanisms of polarization are identified in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Chenglong Jia , Shigeki Onoda , Naoto Nagaosa , Jung Hoon Han

Spin wave propagation along a ferrimagnetic strip with out-of-plane magnetization is studied by means of micromagnetic simulations. The ferrimagnetic material is considered as formed by two antiferromagnetically coupled sublattices. Two…

In metallic ferromagnets, the spin-transfer torque and spin-motive force are known to exhibit a reciprocal relationship. Recent experiments on ferromagnets with strong spin-orbit coupling have revealed a rich complexity in the interaction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Kjetil M. D. Hals , Arne Brataas

We consider a microscopic model of itinerant electrons coupled via ferromagnetic exchange to a local magnetization whose direction vector n(r,t) varies in space and time. We assume that to first order in the spatial gradient and time…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-08 Frederic Piechon , Andre Thiaville

Motivated by the recently discovered magnonic Hanle effect in an insulating antiferromagnet [Wimmer et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 247204 (2020)], we develop a spin transport theory based on low-energy waves of antiferromagnetic N\'eel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-07 Eric Kleinherbers , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

We theoretically study spin-transfer torque (STT) in a graphene system with spin-orbit coupling (SOC). We consider a graphene-based junction where the spin-orbit coupled region is sandwiched between two ferromagnetic (F) segments. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-20 Morteza Salehi , Razieh Beiranvand , Mohammad Alidoust

Ferrimagnets (FIMs) can function as high-frequency antiferromagnets while being easy to detect as ferromagnets, offering unique opportunities for ultrafast device applications. While the physical behavior of FIMs near the compensation point…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 Mingda Guo , Hantao Zhang , Ran Cheng

We study the spin-transfer torque and magnetoresistance of a ferromagnet$\mid$superconductor$\mid$ferromagnet spin-valve, allowing for an arbitrary magnetization misorientation and treating both s-wave and d-wave symmetries of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Linder , T. Yokoyama , A. Sudbø

We study the exchange between electron and magnon spins at the interface of an antiferromagnet and a heavy metal at finite temperatures. The underlying physical mechanism is based on spin torque associated with the creation/annihilation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-10 Xi-guang Wang , Yao-Zhuang Nie , L. Chotorlishvili , Qing-lin Xia , J. Berakdar , Guang-hua Guo

We investigate the formation and dynamics of spin textures in antiferromagnetic insulators adjacent to a heavy-metal substrate with strong spin-orbit interactions. Exchange coupling to conduction electrons engenders an effective anisotropy,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-17 Ricardo Zarzuela , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Two channels of the sd exchange interaction are considered in magnetic junctions. The first channel describes the interaction of transversal spins with the lattice magnetization. The second one describes the interaction of longitudinal…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-10-22 S. G. Chigarev , E. M. Epshtein , Yu. V. Gulyaev , P. E. Zilberman

The mutual dependence of spin-dependent conduction and magnetization dynamics of ferromagnets provides the key mechanisms in various spin-dependent phenomena. We compute the response of the conduction electron spins to a spatial and time…

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

We analytically model the magnetization switching time of a biaxial ferromagnet driven by an antidamping-like spin torque. The macrospin magnetization dynamics is mapped to an energy-flow equation, wherein a rational-function approximation…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-05-13 Ankit Shukla , Arun Parthasarathy , Shaloo Rakheja

Ferrimagnets are antiparallel-ordered magnetic states in a bipartite lattice with two alternating unequal spins, which exhibit both ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic properties. Several theoretical studies have explored the magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-17 Jongmin Y. Lee , Se Kwon Kim

Antiferromagnets are magnetically ordered materials which exhibit no net moment and thus are insensitive to magnetic fields. Antiferromagnetic spintronics aims to take advantage of this insensitivity for enhanced stability, while at the…

We propose the use of energy bandpass filtering approach in the magnetic tunnel junction device as a route to enhance the thermal spin transfer torque. Using the spin-resolved non-equilibrium Green's function formalism, we harness the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Pankaj Priyadarshi , Abhishek Sharma , Bhaskaran Muralidharan