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A mesoscopic description of spin-transfer effect is proposed, based on the spin-injection mechanism occurring at the junction with a ferromagnet. The effect of spin-injection is to modify locally, in the ferromagnetic configuration space,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. -E. Wegrowe , S. M. Santos , M. -C. Ciornei , H. -J. Drouhin , J. M. Rubí

We discover that the way spin-waves exert magnetic torques in multiferroic materials can cause not only domain wall motion, but also magnetization dynamics for homogeneous magnetization textures. Interestingly, the domain wall motion can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-03 Iryna Kulagina , Jacob Linder

It has recently been proposed and experimentally demonstrated that it is possible to generate large thermoelectric effects in ferromagnet/superconductor structures due to a spin-dependent particle-hole asymmetry. Here, we theoretically show…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-06-15 Jacob Linder , Marianne Etzelmüller Bathen

We investigated how the dynamics of a domain wall are affected by the presence of spin density waves in a ferromagnetic wire. Domain walls and other scattering centres can cause coherent spin density waves to propagate through a wire when a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-19 Nicholas Sedlmayr , Vitalii Dugaev , Jamal Berakdar

Thermally activated domain-wall (DW) motion driven by magnetic field and electric current is investigated experimentally in out-of-plane magnetized Pt(Co/Pt)$_3$ multilayers. We directly extract the thermal activation energy barrier for DW…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-11-21 Satoru Emori , Chinedum K. Umachi , David C. Bono , Geoffrey S. D. Beach

We have performed an experimental and modeling-based study of the spin-orbit torque-induced growth of magnetic stripe domains in heavy metal/ferromagnet thin-film heterostructures that possess chiral N\'eel-type domain walls due to an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-04 Jeffrey A. Brock , Daan Swinkels , Bert Koopmans , Eric E. Fullerton

We show that a huge thermoelectric effect can be observed by contacting a superconductor whose density of states is spin-split by a Zeeman field with a ferromagnet with a non-zero polarization. The resulting thermopower exceeds $k_B/e$ by a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-02-10 A. Ozaeta , P. Virtanen , F. S. Bergeret , T. T. Heikkilä

The dynamics of current-induced motion of a magnetic domain wall in a quasi-one-dimensional ferromagnet with both easy-axis and easy-plane anisotropy, is studied. We pay a special attention to the case of a sharp domain wall, and calculate…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 V. K. Dugaev , V. R. Vieira , P. D. Sacramento , J. Barnas , M. A. N. Araujo , J. Berakdar

Magnetic domain walls are objects whose dynamics is inseparably connected to their structure. In this work we investigate magnetic bilayers, which are engineered such that a coupled pair of domain walls, one in each layer, is stabilized by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-06 Aleš Hrabec , Viola Křižáková , Stefania Pizzini , João Sampaio , André Thiaville , Stanislas Rohart , Jan Vogel

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

We theoretically study the interaction of magnons, quanta of spin waves, and a domain wall in a one-dimensional easy-axis antiferromagnet in the presence of an external magnetic field applied along the easy axis. To this end, we begin by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-19 Pengtao Shen , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Se Kwon Kim

We have studied the influence of the magnetization on the superconducting transition temperature ($T_c$) in bi- and trilayers consisting of the half-metallic ferromagnet La$_{0.67}$Sr$_{0.33}$MnO$_3$ (LSMO) and the high-temperature…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-04-15 M. van Zalk , M. Veldhorst , A. Brinkman , J. Aarts , H. Hilgenkamp

We demonstrate that the hybrid structures consisting of a superconducting layer with an adjacent spin-textured ferromagnet demonstrate the variety of equilibrium magnetoelectric effects originating from coupling between the conduction…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-06-18 D. S. Rabinovich , I. V. Bobkova , A. M. Bobkov , M. A. Silaev

The dynamics of a domain wall driven by a spin-polarized current in a mesoscopic system is studied numerically. Spin-mixing in the states of the conduction electrons is fully taken into account. When the Fermi energy of the electrons is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jun-ichiro Ohe , Bernhard Kramer

An electrical current can transfer spin angular momentum to a ferromagnet. This novel physical phenomenon, called spin transfer, offers unprecedented spatial and temporal control over the magnetic state of a ferromagnet and has tremendous…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. Wei , A. Sharma , A. S. Nunez , P. M. Haney , R. A. Duine , J. Bass , A. H. MacDonald , M. Tsoi

Ultrafast demagnetization of magnetic layers pumped by a femtosecond laser pulse is accompanied by a nonthermal spin-polarized current of hot electrons. These spin currents are studied here theoretically in a spin valve with noncollinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-26 Pavel Baláž , Martin Žonda , Karel Carva , Pablo Maldonado , Peter M. Oppeneer

We present a temperature dependent study of the thermal excitation of magnonic spin currents in two-sublattice magnetic materials. Using atomistic spin model simulations, we study the local magnetization profiles in the vicinity of a…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-02-15 Ulrike Ritzmann , Denise Hinzke , Ulrich Nowak

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

Efficient electrical manipulation of domain walls is key to developing magnetic devices with fast switching capabilities and low energy consumption. Here we demonstrate Bloch-type domain wall velocities exceeding 1 km s$^{-1}$ in the…

We study charge and energy transport in a quasi-1D magnetic wire in the presence of magnetic textures. The energy flows can be expressed in a fashion similar to charge currents, leading to new energy-current induced spin torques. In analogy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-10 Alexey A. Kovalev , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak