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In systems with strong spin-orbit coupling, the relationship between spin-transfer torque and the divergence of the spin current is generalized to a relation between spin transfer torques, total angular momentum current, and mechanical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Paul M. Haney , M. D. Stiles

A consistent theory to describe the correlated dynamics of quantum mechanical itinerant spins and semiclassical local magnetization is given. We consider the itinerant spins as quantum mechanical operators, whereas local moments are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Jun-ichiro Kishine , A. S. Ovchinnikov

In spite of the absence of a macroscopic magnetic moment, an anti-ferromagnet is spin-polarized on an atomic scale. The electric current passing through a conducting anti-ferromagnet is polarized as well, leading to spin-transfer torques…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-09-29 Yuan Xu , Shuai Wang , Ke Xia

Coherent quantum transport in ferromagnetic/ semiconductor/ ferromagnetic junctions is studied theoretically within the Landauer framework of ballistic transport. We show that quantum coherence can have unexpected implications for spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Mireles , G. Kirczenow

The field of spin electronics (spintronics) was initiated by the discovery of giant magnetoresistance (GMR) for which Fert[1] and Grunberg[2] were awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize for Physics. GMR arises from differential scattering of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-10-14 A. Aziz , O. P. Wessely , M. Ali , D. M. Edwards , C. H. Marrows , B. J. Hickey , M. G. Blamire

We develop a simple theoretical framework for transport in magnetic multilayers, based on Landauer-Buttiker scattering formalism and Random Matrix Theory. A simple transformation allows one to go from the scattering point of view to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-07 Valentin S. Rychkov , Simone Borlenghi , Henri Jaffres , Albert Fert , Xavier Waintal

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

The spin of an electron trapped in a quantum dot is a promising candidate implementation of a qubit for quantum information processing. We study the central spin problem of the effect of the hyperfine interaction between such an electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-08-29 Gang Chen , Doron L. Bergman , Leon Balents

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

Selected problems of fundamental importance for spintronics and spin-polarized transport are reviewed, some of them with a special emphasis on their applications in quantum computing and coherent control of quantum dynamics. The role of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Das Sarma , Jaroslav Fabian , Xuedong Hu , Igor Zutic

The dynamics of magnetization in the presence of spin-transfer torque was studied. We derived the equation for the motion of magnetization in the presence of a spin current by using the local equilibrium assumption in non-equilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-07 Kazuhiko Seki , Hiroshi Imamura

The phenomenon of spin transfer torque (STT) has attracted a great deal of interests due to its promising prospects in practical spintronic devices. In this paper, we report a theoretical investigation of STT in a noncollinear magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-17 Xiaobin Chen , Chenyi Zhou , Zhaohui Zhang , Jingzhe Chen , Xiaohong Zheng , Lei Zhang , Can-Ming Hu , Hong Guo

The reversal of perpendicular magnetization (PM) by electric control is crucial for high-density integration of low-power magnetic random-access memory (MRAM). Although the spin-transfer torque (STT) and spin-orbit torque (SOT) technologies…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-17 Xing-Guo Ye , Peng-Fei Zhu , Wen-Zheng Xu , Nianze Shang , Kaihui Liu , Zhi-Min Liao

Current-induced spin-orbit torques (SOTs) represent one of the most effective ways to manipulate the magnetization in spintronic devices. The orthogonal torque-magnetization geometry, the strong damping, and the large domain wall velocities…

We present a theory of magnetotransport through a system of two coupled electronic orbitals, where the electron spin interacts with a (large) local magnetic moment via an exchange interaction. For the physical realization of such a set-up…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-06 Klemens Mosshammer , Gerold Kiesslich , Tobias Brandes

The key concept in spintronics of current-driven noncollinear magnetic textures, such as magnetic domain walls (DWs), is adiabaticity, i.e., how closely electronic spins track classical localized magnetic moments (LMMs) of the texture. When…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-30 Felipe Reyes Osorio , Branislav K. Nikolic

The physics of interacting nuclear spins arranged in a crystalline lattice is typically described using a thermodynamic framework: a variety of experimental studies in bulk solid-state systems have proven the concept of a spin temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-21 P. Maletinsky , M. Kroner , A. Imamoglu

We investigate the spin transfer torque (STT) in the magnetic multilayer structures with micromagnetic simulations. We implement the STT contribution for the magnetic multilayer structures in addition to the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG)…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-01-24 Chun-Yeol You

We theoretically investigate current-induced magnetization dynamics in chiral-lattice helimagnets. Spin-orbit coupling in non-centrosymmetric crystals induces a reactive spin-transfer torque that has not been previously considered. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-09 Kjetil M. D. Hals , Arne Brataas

We develop a theory for spin transport and magnetization dynamics in a quantum-dot spin valve, i.e., two magnetic reservoirs coupled to a quantum dot. Our theory is able to take into account effects of strong correlations. We demonstrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-09 N. M. Gergs , S. A. Bender , R. A. Duine , D. Schuricht