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We report on a highly efficient spin diode effect in an exchange-biased spin-valve giant magnetoresistance (GMR) strips. In such multilayer structures, symmetry of the current distribution along the vertical direction is broken and, as a…

Generating coherent magnon spin currents with the highest frequencies and shortest wavelengths is a key challenge in ultrafast spintronics and magnonics. A promising route is to excite counter-propagating magnon pairs. In antiferromagnets,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Torstein Hegstad , Johan H. Mentink

The prediction and realization of magnetic excitations driven by electrical currents via the spin transfer torque effect, enables novel magnetic nano-devices where spin-waves can be used to process and store information. The functional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-09 S. Bonetti , R. Kukreja , Z. Chen , F. Macià , J. M. Hernàndez , A. Eklund , D. Backes , J. Frisch , J. Katine , G. Malm , S. Urazhdin , A. D. Kent , J. Stöhr , H. Ohldag , H. A. Dürr

Recent advances in magnonics highlight the need for employing spin wave characteristics as new state variables, which is to be detected and mapped out with high precision in all-onchip, small scale devices. Spin wave modes that are prompted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Junming Wu , Dinesh Wagle , Yuzan Xiong , Andrew Christy , Yi Li , Shihao Zhou , James F. Cahoon , Xufeng Zhang , M. Benjamin Jungfleisch , Wei Zhang

Optically induced spin currents have proven to be useful in spintronics applications, allowing for sub-ps all-optical control of magnetization. However, the mechanism responsible for their generation is still heavily debated. Here we use…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-27 Tom Lichtenberg , Maarten Beens , Menno H. Jansen , Rembert A. Duine , Bert Koopmans

Advancing the development of spin-wave devices requires high-quality low-damping magnetic materials where magnon spin currents can propagate efficiently and interact effectively with local magnetic textures. We show that magnetic domain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-06 Yabin Fan , Miela J. Gross , Takian Fakhrul , Joseph Finley , Justin T. Hou , Luqiao Liu , Caroline A. Ross

Conversion of thermal energy into magnonic spin currents and/or effective electric polarization promises new device functionalities. A versatile approach is presented here for generating and controlling open circuit magnonic spin currents…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Xi-guang Wang , L. Chotorlishvili , Guang-hua Guo , J. Berakdar

We show that the resonant coupling of phonons and magnons can be exploited to generate spin currents at room temperature. Surface acoustic wave (SAW) pulses with a frequency of 1.55 GHz and duration of 300 ns provide coherent elastic waves…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-10-30 M. Weiler , H. Huebl , F. S. Goerg , F. D. Czeschka , R. Gross , S. T. B. Goennenwein

N\'eel spin-orbit torque allows a charge current pulse to efficiently manipulate the N\'eel vector in antiferromagnets, which offers a unique opportunity for ultrahigh density information storage with high speed. However, the reciprocal…

We present an approach enabling generation of narrow spin wave beams in thin homogeneous ferromagnetic films. The main idea is to match the wave vector of the spin wave with that corresponding to the spectral maximum of the exciting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-26 P. Gruszecki , A. E. Serebryannikov , W. Śmigaj , M. Krawczyk

In experiments the distinction between spin-torque and Oersted-field driven magnetization dynamics is still an open problem. Here, the gyroscopic motion of current- and field-driven magnetic vortices in small thin-film elements is…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Benjamin Krueger , Andre Drews , Markus Bolte , Ulrich Merkt , Daniela Pfannkuche , Guido Meier

A model of spin torque induced magnetization dynamics based upon semi-classical spin diffusion theory for a single layer nanocontact is presented. The model incorporates effects due to the current induced Oersted field and predicts the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-13 M. A. Hoefer , T. J. Silva , M. D. Stiles

Several rare-earth transition-metal ferrimagnetic systems exhibit all-optical magnetization switching upon excitation with a femtosecond laser pulse. Although this phenomenon is very promising for future opto-magnetic data storage…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 Tom Lichtenberg , Youri L. W. van Hees , Maarten Beens , Caspar J. Levels , Reinoud Lavrijsen , Rembert A. Duine , Bert Koopmans

We numerically study the acoustic parametric amplification of spin waves using surface acoustic waves (SAW) in a magnetic thin film. First, we illustrate how the process of parametric spin-wave generation using short-waved SAWs with a fixed…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-02-22 M. Mohseni , A. Hamadeh , M. Geilen , P. Pirro

The interplay between spin, charge, and orbital degrees of freedom has led to the development of spintronic devices like spin-torque oscillators, spin-logic devices, and spin-transfer torque magnetic random-access memories. In this…

Had magnetic monopoles been ubiquitous as electrons are, we would probably have had a different form of matter, and power plants based on currents of these magnetic charges would have been a familiar scene of modern technology. Magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-17 Mohamed Azzouz

Efficient numerical methods are required for the design of optimised devices. In magnonics, the primary computational tool is micromagnetic simulations, which solve the Landau-Lifshitz equation discretised in time and space. However, their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Wojciech Śmigaj , Krzysztof Sobucki , Paweł Gruszecki , Maciej Krawczyk

Recent experiments observe the spin-wave-Meissner-current modes in ferromagnetic insulator-superconductor heterostructures, in which the coherently excited spin waves seemingly do not decay as usual beneath the superconductor strip [Borst…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-17 Xi-Han Zhou , Xiyin Ye , Lihui Bai , Tao Yu

The interplay between spin wave and magnetic texture represents the information exchange between the fast and slow dynamical parts of magnetic systems. Here we formulate a set of magnonic torques acting on background magnetic texture, by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-15 Jin Lan , Hanxu Ai

We present theoretical description of the precessional switching processes induced by simultaneous application of spin-polarized current and external magnetic field to antiferromagnetic component of the "pinned" layer. We found stability…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-29 Helen V. Gomonay , Vadim M. Loktev