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Quantum dot spin valves are characterized by exchange fields which induce spin precession and generate current spin resonances even in absence of spin splitting. Analogous effects have been studied in double quantum dots, in which the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 Christoph Rohrmeier , Andrea Donarini

The understanding of memory effects arising from the interaction between system and environment is a key for engineering quantum thermodynamic devices beyond the standard Markovian limit. We study the performance of measurement-based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-14 Obinna Abah , Mauro Paternostro

The torque generated by the transfer of spin angular momentum from a spin-polarized current to a nanoscale ferromagnet can switch the orientation of the nanomagnet much more efficiently than a current-generated magnetic field, and is…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. -T. Cui , J. C. Sankey , C. Wang , K. V. Thadani , Z. -P. Li , R. A. Buhrman , D. C. Ralph

Droplet solitons are coherently precessing solitary waves that have been recently realized in thin ferromagnets with perpendicular anisotropy.In the strongly nonlinear regime, droplets can be well approximated by a slowly precessing,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-11-12 Lake Bookman , Mark Hoefer

We study electron pumping in the strong coupling and non-Markovian regime. Our model is a single quantum dot with periodically modulated energy and tunnelling amplitudes. We identify four parameters to control the direction of the current:…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-27 Sebastian Restrepo , Sina Böhling , Javier Cerrillo , Gernot Schaller

In this paper a detailed numerical study (in frames of the Slonczewski formalism) of magnetization oscillations driven by a spin-polarized current through a thin elliptical nanoelement is presented. We show that a sophisticated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. V. Berkov , N. L. Gorn

Recent advances in the studies of pure spin currents - flows of angular momentum (spin) not accompanied by the electric currents - have opened new horizons for the emerging technologies based on the electron's spin degree of freedom, such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-03 V. E. Demidov , S. Urazhdin , G. de Loubens , O. Klein , V. Cros , A. Anane , S. O. Demokritov

The physical mechanisms underlying current-driven skyrmion motion include the spin-transfer torque exerted by a spin-polarized horizontal electric current and the spin-orbit torque exerted by a perpendicular spin current. Each mechanism…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-09 Yuto Uwabo , Ryo Fujimoto , Kimimaro Yanai , Masahito Mochizuki

Using newly developed quantum-classical hybrid framework, we investigate interaction between spin-polarized conduction electrons and a single spin wave (SW) coherently excited within a metallic ferromagnetic nanowire. When the nanowire…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-08 Abhin Suresh , Utkarsh Bajpai , Branislav K. Nikolic

We study experimentally the possibility to utilize pulses of pure spin current, produced via the nonlocal spin injection mechanism, to generate short packets of spin waves propagating in nanoscale magnetic waveguides. The spatially and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-03 B. Divinskiy , V. E. Demidov , S. O. Demokritov , A. B. Rinkevich , S. Urazhdin

We have investigated the generation of spin waves in the free layer of an extended spin-valve structure with a nano-scaled point contact driven by both microwave and direct electric current using Brillouin light scattering microscopy.…

Semiconducting nanowires with strong spin-orbit coupling in the presence of induced superconductivity and ferromagnetism can support Majorana zero modes. We study the pumping due to the precession of the magnetization in single-subband…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-04 V. Fernández Becerra , Mircea Trif , Timo Hyart

The current induced magnetization reversal in nanoscale spin valves is a potential alternative to magnetic field switching in magnetic memory devices. We show that the critical switching current can be decreased by an order of magnitude by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jan Manschot , Arne Brataas , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

Spin pumping refers to the microwave-driven spin current injection from a ferromagnet into the adjacent target material. We theoretically investigate the spin pumping into superconductors by fully taking account of impurity spin-orbit…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-07-19 Masashi Inoue , Masanori Ichioka , Hiroto Adachi

Using micromagnetics we demonstrate that the r.f. field produced by a spin valve can be used to reverse the magnetization in a magnetic nanoparticle. The r.f. field is generated using a current that specifically excites a uniform spin wave…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Rivkin , J. Ketterson , W. Saslow

Within the lowest-order Born approximation, we calculate the exact dynamics of a single qubit in the presence of 1/f noise, without making any Markov approximation. We show that the non-Markovian qubit time-evolution exhibits asymmetries…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-26 Guido Burkard

We microscopically analyze thermal spin pumping mediated by magnons, at the interface between a ferromagnetic insulator and a non-magnetic metal, in the semiclassical regime. The generation of a spin current is discussed by calculating the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-24 Kouki Nakata

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

Surface plasmons, free-electron collective oscillations in metallic nanostructures, provide abundant routes to manipulate light-electron interactions that can localize light energy and alter electromagnetic field distributions at…

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