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The reflection coefficient of bulk spin waves from multilayer ferromagnetic structure with periodically modulated parameters of exchange interaction, uniaxial and rhombic magnetic anisotropy and saturation magnetization is calculated with a…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-01-15 Sergey A Reshetnyak , Tat'yana A Homenko

By combining interface-sensitive non-linear magneto-optical experiments with femtosecond time resolution and ab-initio time-dependent density functional theory, we show that optically excited spin dynamics at Co/Cu(001) interfaces proceeds…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-02-20 J. Chen , U. Bovensiepen , A. Eschenlohr , T. Müller , P. Elliott , E. K. U. Gross , J. K. Dewhurst , S. Sharma

A scheme is presented to calculate on a first-principles level the spin-lattice coupling (SLC) parameters needed to perform combined molecular-spin dynamics (MSD) simulations. By treating changes to the spin configuration and atomic…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-03 Sergiy Mankovsky , Hannah Lange , Svitlana Polesya , Hubert Ebert

The expression of the thermal fluctuation parameter in the stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation has been derived from a fundamental quantum theory of spins and phonons, in which the exchange interaction between nearest atoms has been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-21 Lei Xu , Dan Wei , Kuijuan Jin , Zhongshui Ma

We report that spin current transport across Pt-ferromagnet (FM) interfaces is strongly dependent on the type and the thickness of the FM layer and on post-deposition processing protocols. By employing both harmonic voltage measurements and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-09 Chi-Feng Pai , Yongxi Ou , D. C. Ralph , R. A. Buhrman

Understanding the evolution of spin-orbit torque (SOT) with increasing heavy-metal thickness in ferromagnet/normal metal (FM/NM) bilayers is critical for the development of magnetic memory based on SOT. However, several experiments have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-11 Andrew J. Berger , Eric R. J. Edwards , Hans T. Nembach , Olof Karis , Mathias Weiler , T. J. Silva

The ultra-fast demagnetization of small iron clusters initiated by an intense optical excitation is studied with time-dependent spin density functional theory (TDSDFT). In particular we investigate the effect of the spin-orbit interaction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-27 Maria Stamenova , Jacopo Simoni , Stefano Sanvito

Initial-switching refers to the way in which the decay of an initially confined state begins, as the barrier isolating it from the exterior is relaxed. We study these effects in the context of Longhi's version of the Fano-Anderson model.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Martorell , D. W. L. Sprung , W. van Dijk , J. G. Muga

Nowadays a wide number of applications based on magnetic materials relies on the properties arising at the interface between different layers in complex heterostructures engineered at the nanoscale. In ferromagnetic/heavy metal multilayers,…

In recent years, disorder has been shown to be crucial for the understanding of diluted magnetic semiconductors. Effects of disorder in these materials are reviewed with the emphasis on theoretical works. The types and spatial distribution…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Timm

Highly symmetric magnetic environments have been suggested to stabilize the magnetic information stored in magnetic adatoms on a surface. Utilized as memory devices such systems are subjected to electron tunneling and external magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Christoph Hübner , Benjamin Baxevanis , Alexander Ako Khajetoorians , Daniela Pfannkuche

We study an SOS model whose dynamics is inspired by recent studies of the synchronization transition in coupled map lattices (CML). The synchronization of CML is thus related with a depinning of interface from a binding wall. Critical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Adam Lipowski , Michel Droz

We examine metastable and transient effects both above and below the first-order decoupling line in a 3D simulation of magnetically interacting pancake vortices. We observe pronounced transient and history effects as well as supercooling…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 C. J. Olson , C. Reichhardt , R. T. Scalettar , G. T. Zimanyi , N. Gronbech-Jensen

In III-V dilute magnetic semiconductors (DMSs) such as Ga$_{1-x}$Mn$_x$As, the impurity positions tend to be correlated, which can drastically affect the electronic transport properties of these materials. Within the memory function…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 F. V. Kyrychenko , C. A. Ullrich

The classical drift diffusion (DD) model of spin transport treats spin relaxation via an empirical parameter known as the ``spin diffusion length''. According to this model, the ensemble averaged spin of electrons drifting and diffusing in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sandipan Pramanik , Supriyo Bandyopadhyay , Marc Cahay

A rather unique feature of the two-dimensional electron gas (2-DEG) formed at the interface between the two insulators LaAlO3 and SrTiO3 is to host both gate-tunable superconductivity and strong spin-orbit coupling. In the present work, we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-07-26 G. Singh , A. Jouan , S. Hurand , C. Palma , P. Kumar , A. Dogra , R. Budhani , J. Lesueur , N. Bergeal

Emergent pattern formation in self-propelled particle (SPP) systems is extensively studied because it addresses a range of swarming phenomena which occur without leadership. Here we present a dynamic SPP model in which a sensory blind zone…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2008-07-23 Jonathan P. Newman , Hiroki Sayama

We expose the theoretical mechanisms underlying disorder-induced nematicity in systems exhibiting strong fluctuations or ordering in the nematic channel. Our analysis consists of a symmetry-based Ginzburg-Landau approach and associated…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-08-23 Daniel Steffensen , Panagiotis Kotetes , Indranil Paul , Brian M. Andersen

Asymmetry of conduction of electrons in the spin majority and minority bands of a ferromagnetic metal is well known to produce spin accumulation at the boundary with a normal metal when a current is injected through the interface. However,…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Pavel Krotkov , Maxim Dzero

We study the properties of spin systems realized by cold polar molecules interacting via dipole-dipole interactions in two dimensions. Using a spin wave theory, that allows for the full treatment of the characteristic long-distance tail of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-07-12 David Peter , Steffen Müller , Stefan Wessel , Hans Peter Büchler