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Current-induced magnetization switching, a fundamental phenomenon related to spin-transport of electrons, enables non-voltaic and fast information write, facilitating applications in low-power memory and logic devices. However,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-30 Yanyan Yang , Weiwei Lin

This letter introduces a micromagnetic model able to characterize the magnetization dynamics in three terminal magnetic tunnel junctions, where the effects of spin-transfer torque and spin-orbit torque are taken into account. Our results…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-18 R. Tomasello , M. Carpentieri , G. Finocchio

Micron-sized magnetic platelets in the flux closed vortex state are characterized by an in-plane curling magnetization and a nanometer-sized perpendicularly magnetized vortex core. Having the simplest non-trivial configuration, these…

We report the possibility of achieving an order of magnitude reduction in the energy dissipation needed to write bits in perpendicular magnetic tunnel junctions (p-MTJs) by simulating the magnetization dynamics under a combination of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Austin Roe , Dhritiman Bhattacharya , Jayasimha Atulasimha

The discovery of new mechanisms of controlling magnetic properties by electric fields or currents furthers the fundamental understanding of magnetism and has important implications for practical use. Here, we present a novel approach of…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-21 Pavel Salev , Iana Volvach , Dayne Sasaki , Pavel Lapa , Yayoi Takamura , Vitaliy Lomakin , Ivan K Schuller

We investigate the stochastic dynamics of nanoscale perpendicular magnetic tunnel junctions (pMTJs) and the correlations that arise when they are electrically coupled. Individual junctions exhibit thermally activated spin-transfer torque…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Dairong Chen , Ahmed Sidi El Valli , Jonathan Z. Sun , Flaviano Morone , Dries Sels , Andrew D. Kent

We predict the existence of a new metastable magnetization state in a single-domain nanomagnet with uniaxial shape anisotropy. It emerges when a spin-polarized current, delivering a spin-transfer-torque, is injected into the nanomagnet. It…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-18 Kuntal Roy , Supriyo Bandyopadhyay , Jayasimha Atulasimha

The interplay between intrinsic and surface/interface-induced magnetic anisotropies strongly in- fluences magnetization processes in nanomagnetic systems. We develop a micromagnetic theory to describe the field-driven reorientation in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-12 A. A. Leonov , U. K. Roessler , A. N. Bogdanov

Interaction between local magnetization and conduction electrons is responsible for a variety of phenomena in magnetic materials. It has been recently shown that spin current and associated electric voltage can be induced by magnetization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-31 Yuta Yamane , Shayan Hemmatiyan , Jun'ichi Ieda , Sadamichi Maekawa , Jairo Sinova

A method is advanced allowing for fast regulation of magnetization direction in magnetic nanosystems. The examples of such systems are polarized nanostructures, magnetic nanomolecules, magnetic nanoclusters, magnetic graphene, dipolar and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-10-19 V. I. Yukalov , E. P. Yukalova

We develop a quantum analog of the classical spin-torque model for current-driven magnetic dynamics. The current-driven magnetic excitation at finite field becomes significantly incoherent. This excitation is described by an effective…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Urazhdin

We present efficient numerical methods for the simulation of small magnetization oscillations in three-dimensional micromagnetic systems. Magnetization dynamics is described by the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation, linearized in the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Massimiliano d'Aquino , Riccardo Hertel

The aim of the paper is to present a novel class of time-dependent controls to realize ultra-fast magnetization switching in nanomagnets driven by spin-torques produced by spin-polarized electric currents. Magnetization dynamics in such…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-10-23 Alessandro Fortunati , Massimiliano d'Aquino , Claudio Serpico

A scanning tunneling microscope can probe the inelastic spin excitations of a single magnetic atom in a surface via spin-flip assisted tunneling in which transport electrons exchange spin and energy with the atomic spin. If the inelastic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 F. Delgado , J. Fernández-Rossier

The paper proposes the method to analyze the internal dynamics of nanoscopic systems by periodic modulation of the electrochemical potentials of the attached leads and measuring the time-averaged current. The idea is presented using the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-15 Krzysztof Ptaszynski

There exists a significant challenge in developing efficient magnetic tunnel junctions with low write currents for non-volatile memory devices. With the aim of analysing potential materials for efficient current-operated magnetic junctions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-13 Matthew O. A. Ellis , Maria Stamenova , Stefano Sanvito

Input-driven dynamical systems have attracted attention because their dynamics can be used as resources for brain-inspired computing. The recent achievement of human-voice recognition by spintronic oscillator also utilizes an input-driven…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-17 Tomohiro Taniguchi

A selfconsistent theory of the current-induced switching of magnetization using nonequilibrium Keldysh formalism is developed for a junction of two ferromagnets separated by a nonmagnetic spacer. It is shown that the spin-transfer torques…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 D. M. Edwards , F. Federici , J. Mathon , A. Umerski

The mechanisms of thermally activated magnetization switching in small ferromagnetic particles driven by an external magnetic field are investigated. For low uniaxial anisotropy the spins rotate coherently while for sufficiently large…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 U. Nowak , D. Hinzke

The ability of spintronic devices to utilize an electric current for manipulating the magnetization has resulted in large-scale developments, such as, magnetic random access memories and boosted the spintronic research area. In this regard,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 Rajagopalan Ramaswamy , Jong Min Lee , Kaiming Cai , Hyunsoo Yang