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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

A zigzag graphene nanodisk can be interpreted as a quantum dot with an internal degree of freedom. It is well described by the infinite-range Heisenberg model. We have investigated its thermodynamical properties. There exists a quasi-phase…

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The superconducting version of a diode effect has been the subject of extensive research in the past few years. So far, the focus has almost exclusively been on charge transport, but a natural question is whether it is possible to obtain…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-06 Chi Sun , Johanne Bratland Tjernshaugen , Jacob Linder

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

DC current induced magnetization reversal and magnetization oscillation was observed in 500 nm large size Co90Fe10/Cu/Ni80Fe20 pillars. A perpendicular external field enhanced the coercive field separation between the reference layer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Linqiang Luo , Mehdi Kabir , Nam Dao , Salinporn Kittiwatanakul , Michael Cyberey , Stuart A. Wolf , Mircea Stan , Jiwei Lu

We study the effects of spin transfer on thermally activated dynamics of magnetic nanopillars with identical thicknesses of the magnetic layers. The symmetric nanopillars exhibit anomalous dependencies of switching statistics on magnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Weng L. Lim , Nicholas Anthony , Andrew Higgins , Sergei Urazhdin

An attractive feature of magnetic adatoms and molecules for nanoscale applications is their superparamagnetism, the preferred alignment of their spin along an easy axis preventing undesired spin reversal. The underlying magnetic anisotropy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-22 Maciej Misiorny , Michael Hell , Maarten R. Wegewijs

Electrostatic control of the magnetization of a normal mesoscopic conductor is analyzed in a hybrid superconductor-normal-superconductor system. This effect stems from the interplay between the non-equilibrium condition in the normal region…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Giazotto , F. Taddei , R. Fazio , F. Beltram

We study the far-from-equilibrium properties of quenched magnetic nanoscopic classical spin systems. In particular, we focus on the interplay between lattice vibrations and magnetic frustrations induced by surface effects typical of an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-01 Carla Lupo , Cedric Weber

A theoretical model based on the Landau-Lifshitz-Bloch equation is developed to study the spin-torque effect in ferrimagnets. Experimental findings, such as the temperature dependence, the peak in spin torque, and the angular-momentum…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-11-21 Zhifeng Zhu , Xuanyao Fong , Gengchiau Liang

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

Generating and characterizing uniform and staggered spin polarization in antiferromagnets is one of the key challenges for antiferromagnetic spintronic technology. Here, we perform perturbative theory, group-theoretical symmetry analysis,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-29 Q. Xue , J. Zhou

Antiferromagnetic insulators can become active spintronics components by controlling and detecting their dynamics via spin currents in adjacent metals. This cross-talk occurs via spin-transfer and spin-pumping, phenomena that have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 Arne Brataas , Hans Skarsvåg , Erlend G. Tveten , Eirik Løhaugen Fjærbu

Spin pumping is an interfacial spin current generation from the ferromagnetic layer to the non-magnetic metal at its interface. The polarization of the pumped spin current $\textbf{J}_s \propto \textbf{m}\times \dot{\textbf{m}}$ depends on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-25 Adam B. Cahaya

We show that in the presence of ferromagnetic electronic reservoirs and spin-dependent tunnel couplings, molecular vibrations in nonmagnetic single molecular transistors induce an effective intramolecular exchange magnetic field. It…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-29 S. Weiss , J. Brüggemann , M. Thorwart

We derive the Onsager response matrix of fluctuation-mediated spin-collinear transport through a ferromagnetic insulator and normal metal interface driven by a temperature difference, spin accumulation, or magnetic field. We predict…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-08-14 Jiang Xiao , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

For the study of molecular spin junctions, we take into account two types of couplings between the molecule and the metal leads: (i) electron transfer that gives rise to net current in the biased junction and (ii) energy transfer between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-23 M. Jouravlev , Kwang S. Kim

We consider a nanowire suspended on two spin-polarized leads and subject to a nonuniform magnetic field. We show that in such a system a temperature drop between leads can significantly affect the nanowire dynamics. In particular, it is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 J. Atalaya , L. Y. Gorelik

Ultrafast demagnetization induced by femtosecond laser pulses in thin metallic layers is caused by the outflow of spin-polarized hot electron currents describable by the superdiffusive transport model. These laser-generated spin currents…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-24 Pavel Baláž , Maciej Zwierzycki , Francesco Cosco , Karel Carva , Pablo Maldonado , Peter M. Oppeneer

In the systems ferromagnet/superconductor ([Fe, Ni]/In), the temperature dependent transport has been investigated within the temperature range including superconducting transition temperature for Indium. It has been found that when Indium…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Yu. N. Chiang , O. G. Shevchenko , R. N. Kolenov