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The recently discovered magnetization reversal driven solely by a femtosecond laser pulse has been shown to be a promising way to record information at record breaking speeds. Seeking to improve the recording density has raised intriguing…

Ultrafast manipulation of magnetic states is one of the necessities in modern data storage technology. Quantum antiferromagnets are promising candidates in this respect. The orientation of the order parameter, the sublattice magnetization,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-16 Asliddin Khudoyberdiev , Götz S. Uhrig

We present a computationally efficient strategy that allows to simulate magnetization switching driven by spin-transfer torque in magnetic tunnel junctions within a micromagnetic model coupled with a matrix-based non-equilibrium Green's…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-02-28 Peter Flauger , Claas Abert , Dieter Suess

Engineering and controlling heat and spin transport on the femtosecond time-scale in spintronic devices opens up new ways to manipulate magnetization with unprecedented speed. Yet the underlying reversal mechanisms remain poorly understood…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Harjinder Singh , Alberto Anadón , Junta Igarashi , Quentin Remy , Stéphane Mangin , Michel Hehn , Jon Gorchon , Gregory Malinowski

The magnetization reversal and dynamics of a spin valve pillar, whose lateral size is 64$\times$64 nm$^2$, are studied by using micromagnetic simulation in the presence of spin transfer torque. Spin torques display both characteristics of…

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

Spin valve nanopillars are reversed via the mechanism of spin momentum transfer using current pulses applied perpendicular to the film plane of the device. The applied pulses were varied in amplitude from 1.8 mA to 7.8 mA, and varied in…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Shehzaad Kaka , Matthew Pufall , William Rippard , Thomas Silva , Stephen Russek , Jordan Katine , Matthew Carey

Reversible straintronic switching of a nanomagnet's magnetization between two stable or metastable states promises ultra-energy-efficient non-volatile memory. Here, we report strain-induced magnetization switching in ~300 nm sized FeGa…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Hasnain Ahmad , Jayasimha Atulasimha , Supriyo Bandyopadhyay

The magnetization orientation of a nanoscale ferromagnet can be manipulated using an electric current via the spin transfer effect. Time domain measurements of nanopillar devices at low temperatures have directly shown that magnetization…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-04-27 Samir Garzon , Longfei Ye , Richard A. Webb , Thomas M. Crawford , Mark Covington , Shehzaad Kaka

We study a magnetization reversal by an electric current pulse in a superconductor/insulating ferromagnet/superconductor Josephson junction placed on top of a 3D topological insulator. It is demonstrated that such a system is perspective…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-10-21 I. V. Bobkova , A. M. Bobkov , I. R. Rahmonov , A. A. Mazanik , K. Sengupta , Yu. M. Shukrinov

The continued increase in areal densities in magnetic recording makes it crucial to understand magnetization reversal in nanoparticles. We present finite-temperature micromagnetic simulations of hysteresis in Fe nanopillars with the long…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Brown , S. M. Stinnett , M. A. Novotny , P. A. Rikvold

We theoretically study the influence of a predominant field-like spin-orbit torque on the magnetization switching of small devices with a uniform magnetization. We show that for a certain range of ratios (0.23-0.55) of the Slonczewski to…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-01 William Legrand , Rajagopalan Ramaswamy , Rahul Mishra , Hyunsoo Yang

The observed magnetization switching by circularly polarized ultrafast laser pulses has been attributed to the inverse Faraday effect in which the induced non-equilibrium orbital momentum serves as an effective magnetic filed via spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-30 Anirban Kundu , Shufeng Zhang

Pulsed spin-torque switching has been studied using single-shot time-resolved electrical measurements in perpendicularly magnetized magnetic tunnel junctions as a function of pulse amplitude and junction size in 50 to 100 nm diameter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Christian Hahn , Georg Wolf , Bartek Kardasz , Steve Watts , Mustafa Pinarbasi , Andrew D. Kent

Depinning of nanoscale magnetic textures, such as domain walls, vortices and skyrmions, is of paramount importance for magnetic storage and information processing. We measure time-resolved magnetic switching statistics of an individual,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-11 Sagar Paul , Ganesh Kotagiri , Rini Ganguly , Annapoorni Subramanian , Hervé Courtois , Clemens B. Winkelmann , Anjan K. Gupta

Quasi-longitudinal and quasi-transverse picosecond strain pulses injected into a ferromagnetic (311) (Ga,Mn)As film induce dynamical shear strain in the film, thereby modulating the magnetic anisotropy and inducing resonant precession of…

By numerically solving the equations of motion for atomic spins we show that internal spin-wave processes in large enough magnetic particles, initially in unstable states, lead to complete magnetization reversal and thermalization. The…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-01-10 D. A. Garanin , H. Kachkachi

We report experimental studies of crystals of Mn12 molecular magnetic clusters in pulsed magnetic fields with sweep rates up to 4x10^3 T/s. The steps in the magnetization curve are observed at fields that are shifted with respect to the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Vanacken , S. Stroobants , M. Malfait , V. V. Moshchalkov , M. Jordi , J. Tejada , R. Amigo , E. M. Chudnovsky , D. A. Garanin

We have observed distinct temperature-dependent magnetization reversal modes in a perpendicular (Co/Pd)4/Co/Cu/(Co/Ni)4/Co pseudo-spin-valve, which are correlated with spin-transport properties. At 300 K, magnetization reversal occurs by…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-07-12 J. E. Davies , D. A. Gilbert , S. M. Mohseni , R. K. Dumas , J. Åkerman , Kai Liu

We demonstrate deterministic, field-free magnetization reversal of a single-domain nanomagnet within 300 ps under a current density of $3 \times 10^{10}~\mathrm{A/m^2}$ by coupling reinforcement learning (RL) to the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 Yuta Igarashi , Junji Fujimoto

The effect of noise on the process of high-speed remagnetization of vortex state of a pentagonal array of five circular magnetic nanoparticles is studied by means of computer simulation of Landau-Lifshits model. The mean switching time and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 A. L. Pankratov , S. N. Vdovichev , I. M. Nefedov , I. R. Karetnikova