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Application of Bardeen's tunneling theory to magnetic tunnel junctions having a general degree of atomic disorder reveals the close relationship between magneto-conduction and voltage-driven pseudo-torque, as well as the thickness…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Slonczewski

Spin Currents in Tunnel Junctions for example induced by thermoelectric forces due to temperature and magnetization gradients etc. are analyzed. Using Onsager theory yields directly, in particular for magnetic tunnel junctions, metallic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-19 K. Bennemann

Current fluctuations generated by tunnel junctions are known to be non-Gaussian. However, this property is lost when fluctuations are measured at high frequency and limited bandwidth. We show that the quadratures of the electric field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-08 Pierre Février , Christian Lupien , Bertrand Reulet

Nanometer-sized magnetic particles have generated continuous interest as the study of their properties has proved to be scientifically and technologically very challenging. In this article we reviewed the most important theories and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. Wernsdorfer

We calculate the real time non-equilibrium dynamics of quantum spin systems at finite temperatures. The mathematical framework originates from the $C^*$-approach to quantum statistical mechanics and is applied to samples investigated by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Kolja Them , T. Stapelfeldt , E. Y. Vedmedenko , R. Wiesendanger

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

The spin Nernst effect, an antisymmetric response of a spin current to a temperature gradient, has attracted attention as spin transport phenomenon arising from the topologically nontrivial band structure of carriers. This effect can occur…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-12 Shinnosuke Koyama , Joji Nasu

We study the magnetization dynamics in nanomagnets excited by stochastic magnetic fields to mimic temperature in a micromagnetic framework. The effect of confinement arising from the finite size of the structures is investigated, and we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-09 Samuel D. Slöetjes , Björgvin Hjörvarsson , Vassilios Kapaklis

We study time-dependent electronic and spin transport through an electronic level connected to two leads and coupled with a single-molecule magnet via exchange interaction. The molecular spin is treated as a classical variable and precesses…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-24 Milena Filipovic , Cecilia Holmqvist , Federica Haupt , Wolfgang Belzig

Periodic driving of quantum dots is analyzed as a basis for developing dynamic switching devices. We study transport through periodically modulated energy levels which are coupled to leads via tunneling coefficients. Utilizing Floquet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-10 Jan Mathis Giesen , Daniel Weber , Sebastian Eggert

We study the dynamics of a quantum spin Hall edge coupled to a magnet with its own dynamics. Using spin transfer torque principles, we analyze the interplay between spin currents in the edge state and dynamics of the axis of the magnet, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-11 Qinglei Meng , Smitha Vishveshwara , Taylor L. Hughes

We present a theoretical study of the electronic transport through a many-level quantum dot driven by time-dependent signals applied at the contacts to the leads. If the barriers oscillate out of phase the system operates like a turnstile…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Valeriu Moldoveanu , Vidar Gudmundsson , Andrei Manolescu

We calculate the quantum correction to the classical conductance of a disordered mesoscopic normal-superconducting (NS) junction in which the electron spatial and spin degrees of freedom are coupled by an appreciable spin orbit interaction.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Keith Slevin , Jean-Louis Pichard , P. A. Mello

We report the electrical detection of magnetization dynamics in an Al/AlOx/Ni80Fe20/Cu tunnel junction, where a Ni80Fe20 ferromagnetic layer is brought into precession under the ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) conditions. The dc voltage…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-02-26 T. Moriyama , R. Cao , X. Fan , G. Xuan , B. K. Nikolic , Y. Tserkovnyak , J. Kolodzey , John Q. Xiao

Persistent current is a hallmark of quantum phase coherence. We study the fate of the persistent current in a non-equilibrium setting, where a tight-binding ring is subjected to stochastic disorder as well as a fermionic reservoir attached…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Samudra Sur , Thierry Giamarchi

We have studied the crossover between thermally assisted and pure quantum tunneling in single crystals of high spin (S=10) uniaxial single molecule magnet Mn12-acetate using micro-Hall effect magnetometry. Magnetic hysteresis experiments…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Louisa Bokacheva , Andrew D. Kent , Marc A. Walters

We study whether a direct measurement of the absolute temperature of a Magnetic Tunnel Junction (MTJ) can be performed using the high frequency electrical noise that it delivers under a finite voltage bias. Our method includes quasi-static…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-03 Adrien Le Goff , Vladimir Nikitin , Thibaut Devolder

The miniaturization of spintronic devices, specifically, nanoscale devices employing spintronics, has attracted intensive attention from a scientific as well as engineering perspective. In this paper, we study non-Markovian effect on spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-16 Kazunari Hashimoto , Gen Tatara , Chikako Uchiyama

Here, we present an analytical and numerical model describing the magnetization dynamics in MgO-based spin-torque nano-oscillators with an in-plane magnetized polarizer and an out-of-plane free layer. We introduce the spin-transfer torque…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-05 Ewa Kowalska , Volker Sluka , Attila Kákay , Ciarán Fowley , Jürgen Lindner , Jürgen Fassbender , Alina M. Deac

In the presence of spatial variation of the magnetization direction, electric current noise causes a fluctuating spin-transfer torque that increases the fluctuations of the ferromagnetic order parameter. By the fluctuation-dissipation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jorn Foros , Arne Brataas , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Gerrit E. W. Bauer