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We present experimental and numerical micromagnetic data on the effect of spin momentum transfer in current perpendicular to the plane spin valves. Starting from a configuration with orthogonal free and pinned layer magnetizations, the free…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Covington , A. Rebei , G. J. Parker , M. A. Seigler

We study an interacting electron gas in a quantum wire within the Hartree-Fock random phase approximation. Vertex corrections to the electron spin polarizability due to the electronic exchange interaction are important giving rise to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Arne Brataas , A. G. Mal'hukov , Christoph Steinebach , Vidar Gudmundsson , K. A. Chao

Spin-orbit torque (SOT) can drive sustained spin wave (SW) auto-oscillations in a class of emerging microwave devices known as spin Hall nano-oscillators (SHNOs), which have highly non-linear properties governing robust mutual…

The intrinsic spin Hall effect in semiconductors has developed to a remarkably lively and rapidly growing branch of research in the field of semiconductor spintronics. In this article we give a pedagogical overview on both theoretical and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 John Schliemann

Spin-transfer torque (STT) provides key mechanisms for current-induced phenomena in ferromagnets. While it is widely accepted that STT involves both adiabatic and non-adiabatic contributions, their underlying physics and range of validity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-23 Ran Cheng , Qian Niu

Spin-transfer is a typical spintronics effect that allows a ferromagnetic layer to be switched by spin-injection. Most of the experimental results about spin transfer are described on the basis of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 J. -E. Wegrowe , C. Ciornei , H. -J. Drouhin

We experimentally show that exchange magnons can be detected using a combination of spin pumping and inverse spin-Hall effect (iSHE) proving its wavelength integrating capability down to the sub-micrometer scale. The magnons were injected…

When a charge current is injected into an altermagnet along a suitable crystallographic direction, a transverse spin current can be generated. This so-called spin-splitter effect does not rely on spin-orbit coupling, and is thus distinct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Karl Bergson Hallberg , Erik Wegner Hodt , Jacob Linder

Spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance (ST-FMR) is a common method used to measure spin-orbit torques (SOTs) in heavy metal/ferromagnet bilayer structures. In the course of a measurement, other resonant processes such as spin pumping (SP) and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Saba Karimeddiny , Joseph A. Mittelstaedt , Robert A. Buhrman , Daniel C. Ralph

We report a mechanical effect in spin-valve nanopillars due to spin transfer. A polarized current carrying electron spins transfers torque to local magnetization and leads to a magnetic switching of free layer. Like classical Einstein-de…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-02-21 Hao Yu

The spin-orbit interaction couples the electrons' motion to their spin. Accordingly, passing a current in a material with strong spin-orbit coupling generates a transverse spin current (spin Hall effect, SHE) and vice-versa (inverse spin…

The spin transfer torque in all-metal dual spin valve, in which two antiparallelly aligned pinned ferromagnetic layers are on the two sides of a free ferromagnetic layer with two thin nonmagnetic spacers in between, is studied in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-06-23 P. Yan , Z. Z. Sun , X. R. Wang

We present a new mechanism for spin-wave excitation using a pinned domain wall which is forced to oscillate at its eigenfrequency and radiates spin waves. The domain wall acts as a frequency doubler, as the excited spin waves have twice the…

We investigate the spin-transfer torque in a magnetic multilayer structure by means of a spin-diffusion model. The torque in the considered system, consisting of two magnetic layers separated by a conducting layer, is caused by a…

We propose and analyze a spin wave amplifier aimed to enhance the amplitude of the propagating spin wave via the magnetoelectric effect. The amplifier is a two-layer multiferroic structure, which comprises piezoelectric and ferromagnetic…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Alexander Khitun , Dmitri E. Nikonov , Kang L. Wang

We theoretically study the spin dynamics in antiferromagnets (AFs)under the influence of an electric current. We identify two different sources of spin-transfer torques that stem from uniform (${\boldsymbol v}_n$) and staggered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 Jotaro J. Nakane , Hiroshi Kohno

Spin transfer torques allow for electrical manipulation of magnetization at room temperature, which is utilized to build future electronic devices such as spin transfer torque memories. Recent experiments have discovered that the…

We simulate scattering of electrons by a chain of antiferromagnetically coupled quantum Heisenberg spins, to analyze spin-transfer effects not described by the classical models of magnetism. Our simulations demonstrate efficient excitation…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-27 Alexander Mitrofanov , Sergei Urazhdin

We investigate spin transport by thermally excited spin waves in an antiferromagnetic insulator. Starting from a stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert phenomenology, we obtain the out-of-equilibrium spin-wave properties. In linear response to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-05 Scott A. Bender , Hans Skarsvåg , Arne Brataas , Rembert A. Duine

Analogous to the Spin-Hall Effect (SHE), {\it ab initio} electronic structure calculations reveal that acoustic phonons can induce charge (spin) current flowing along (normal to) its propagation direction. Using Floquet approach we have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-08 Farzad Mahfouzi , Nicholas Kioussis