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Spintronics has advanced through discoveries of various electrically-driven spin dynamics in nanomagnets. Here, we report a novel switching dynamics of spin systems driven by spin-orbit torque, using a noncollinear antiferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Yuma Sato , Yutaro Takeuchi , Yuta Yamane , Shun Kanai , Shunsuke Fukami

Effects of an incoming spin-polarized current on a magnetic moment are explored. We found that the spin torque occurs only when the incoming spin changes as a function of time inside of the magnetic film. This implies that some…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Wonkee Kim , F. Marsiglio

Magnetic helix wire is one of the most simple magnetic systems which manifest properties of both curvature and torsion. There exist two equilibrium states in the helix wire with easy-tangential anisotropy: a quasi-tangential magnetization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-19 Denis D. Sheka , Volodymyr P. Kravchuk , Kostiantyn V. Yershov , Yuri Gaididei

A ferromagnet-normal-metal-ferromagnet trilayer does not conserve spin current and as a result, the conduction electrons can create a torque on the magnetic moments. When the trilayer is connected to a superconducting electrode, the spin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Xavier Waintal , Piet W. Brouwer

Classical nonlinear theories are highly successful in describing far-from-equilibrium dynamics of magnets, encompassing phenomena such as parametric resonance, ultrafast switching, and even chaos. However, at ultrashort length and time…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Lukas Körber , Pim Coenders , Johan H. Mentink

When electron spins are injected uniformly into a paramagnetic disc, they can precess along the demagnetizing field induced by the resulting magnetic moment. Normally this precession damps out by virtue of the spin relaxation which is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-17 A. Slachter , B. J. van Wees

We investigate numerically the magnetisation dynamics of an array of nano-disks interacting through the magneto-dipolar coupling. In the presence of a temperature gradient, the chain reaches a non-equilibrium steady state where energy and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-03 Simone Borlenghi , Stefano Iubini , Stefano Lepri , Jonathan Chico , Lars Bergqvist , Anna Delin , Jonas Fransson

This study investigates spin squeezed states in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) quadrupolar systems with spins $I=3/2$ and $I=7/2$ at room temperature, taking into account the effects of relaxation on the dynamics. The origin of spin…

We discuss the problem of equilibrium spin currents in ferromagnets with inhomogeneous magnetization. Using simple microscopic models we explain the physical origin of equilibrium spin currents. Next we derive the equilibrium spin current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Patrick Bruno , Vitalii K. Dugaev

Spin-transfer torques in magnetic nanocontacts can lead to self-sustained magnetization oscillations that involve large-amplitude gyrotropic vortex motion. This dynamics consists of a steady state orbit around the nanocontact, which is made…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-07-23 Joo-Von Kim , Thibaut Devolder

We present an analytical and experimental study of torsional magnetic mechanism where the restoring torque is due to magnetic field interactions between rotating and fixed permanent magnets. The oscillator consists of a ball…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-15 Ali Kanj , Rhinithaa P. Thanalakshme , Chengzhang Li , John Kulikowski , Gaurav Bahl , Sameh Tawfick

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

In a nanomagnet (whose total spin S< 1000), very small polarized currents can lead to magnetic reversal. Treating on the same footing the transport and magnetic properties of a nanomagnet connected to magnetic leads via tunneling barriers,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 X. Waintal , O. Parcollet

Spatiotemporal spin dynamics under spin-orbit interaction is investigated in a (001) GaAs two-dimensional electron gas using magneto-optical Kerr rotation microscopy. Spin polarized electrons are diffused away from the excited position,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-20 Daisuke Iizasa , Asuka Aoki , Takahito Saito , Junsaku Nitta , Gian Salis , Makoto Kohda

In this paper we show that the spin transfer torque can be described by a pseudo magnetic field, proportional to the magnetic moment of the itinerant electrons that enters the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation in the same way as other…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-24 Sayeef Salahuddin , Deepanjan Datta , Supriyo Datta

The mutual dependence of spin-dependent conduction and magnetization dynamics of ferromagnets provides the key mechanisms in various spin-dependent phenomena. We compute the response of the conduction electron spins to a spatial and time…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Zhang , Z. Li

Spin dynamics is considered in ferromagnets consisting of electron and nuclear subsystems interacting with each other through hyperfine forces. In addition, the ferromagnetic sample is coupled with a resonance electric circuit. Under these…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 V. I. Yukalov , M. G. Cottam , M. R. Singh

The spin flip of the conduction electrons at the interface of a ferromagnetic and a nonmagnetic part of a metallic wire, suspended between two electrodes, is shown to tort the wire when a current is driven through it. In order to enhance…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-10-26 Peter Fulde , Stefan Kettemann

Switching of the direction of the magnetic moment in a nanomagnet is studied within a modified Slonczewski's model that permits torsional oscillations of the magnet. We show that the latter may inhibit or assist the magnetization switching,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-03 Liufei Cai , Reem Jaafar , Eugene M. Chudnovsky

We study the classical dynamics of resonantly modulated large-spin systems in a strong magnetic field. We show that these systems have special symmetry. It leads to characteristic nonlinear effects. They include abrupt switching between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-19 C. Hicke , M. I. Dykman