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Several new features arise in the ground-state phase diagram of a spin-1 condensate trapped in an optical trap when the magnetic dipole interaction between the atoms is taken into account along with confinement and spin precession. The…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-02-06 Jonas A. Kjäll , Andrew M. Essin , Joel E. Moore

We summarize our recent findings on how current-driven magnetization switching and magnetoresistance in nanofabricated magnetic multilayers are affected by varying the spin-scattering properties of the non-magnetic spacers, the relative…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Urazhdin , H. Kurt , M. AlHajDarwish , Norman O. Birge , W. P. Pratt , J. Bass

Magnetization switching in ferromagnetic structures is an important process for technical applications such as data storage in spintronics, and therefore the determination of the corresponding switching rates becomes essential. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-15 Johannes Mögerle , Robin Schuldt , Johannes Reiff , Jörg Main , Rigoberto Hernandez

We propose an effect whereby an electric current along the interface between a ferromagnetic and normal metal leads to injection of pure spin current into the normal metal, if the magnetization-direction in the ferromagnet varies along the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-28 E. van der Bijl , R. E. Troncoso , R. A. Duine

We consider theoretically a current flowing perpendicular to interfaces of a spin-valve type ferromagnetic metallic junction. For the first time an effective approach is investigated to calculate a simultaneous action of the two current…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 R. J. Elliott , E. M. Epshtein , Yu. V. Gulyaev , P. E. Zilberman

The pursuit of dissipationless spin supercurrents is a central theme in superconducting spintronics. We propose a field-free Josephson junction using an inhomogeneous altermagnetic interlayer with in-plane N\'{e}el vectors. We show that the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-11 Wenjun Zhao , Yuri Fukaya , Pablo Burset , Jorge Cayao , Yukio Tanaka , Bo Lu

Understanding the magnetization dynamics induced by spin transfer torques in perpendicularly magnetized magnetic tunnel junction nanopillars and its dependence on material parameters is critical to optimizing device performance. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-14 Jamileh Beik Mohammadi , Andrew D. Kent

As a collective quasiparticle excitation of the magnetic order in magnetic materials, spin wave, or magnon when quantized, can propagate in both conducting and insulating materials. Like the manipulation of its optical counterpart, the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-11-28 Jin Lan , Weichao Yu , Jiang Xiao

We study current-driven magnetization switching in nanofabricated magnetic trilayers, varying the magnetoresistance in three different ways. First, we insert a strongly spin-scattering layer between the magnetic trilayer and one of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Urazhdin , Norman O. Birge , W. P. Pratt , J. Bass

The oscillation periods of the interlayer exchange coupling are investigated when two magnetic layers are separated by a metallic superlattice of two distinct non-magnetic materials. In spite of the conventional behaviour of the coupling as…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 M. S. Ferreira

Two ferromagnetic layers magnetically decoupled by a thick normal metal spacer layer can be, nevertheless, dynamically coupled via spin currents emitted by the spin-pump and absorbed through the spin-torque effects at the neighboring…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-14 A. A. Timopheev , Yu. G. Pogorelov , S. Cardoso , P. P. Freitas , G. N. Kakazei , N. A. Sobolev

We determine, using a self consistent method, the charge and spin currents in ballistic Josephson junctions consisting of ferromagnetic ($F$) layers sandwiched between superconducting ($S$) electrodes ($SFS$-type junctions). When there are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-11-24 Klaus Halterman , Oriol T. Valls , Chien-Te Wu

We demonstrate the current-induced complete magnetization reversal of the free layer in lateral nanowires patterned from metallic pseudo spin valve stacks. The reversal is induced by Oersted fields in conjunction with a dipolar coupling via…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-24 J. Kleinlein , G. Schmidt

The discovery that a spin polarized current can exert a large torque on a ferromagnet through a transfusion of spin angular momentum, offers a new way to control a magnetization by simple current injection, without the help of an applied…

Nanopillar spin valve devices are typically comprised of two ferromagnetic layers: a reference layer and a free layer whose magnetic orientation can be changed by both an external magnetic field and through the introduction of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Richard Choi , J. A. Katine , Stephane Mangin , Eric E. Fullerton

We present experimental and numerical micromagnetic data on the effect of spin momentum transfer in current perpendicular to the plane spin valves. Starting from a configuration with orthogonal free and pinned layer magnetizations, the free…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Covington , A. Rebei , G. J. Parker , M. A. Seigler

Deterministic current-induced spin-orbit torque (SOT) switching of magnetization in a heavy transition metal/ferromagnetic metal/oxide magnetic heterostructure with the ferromagnetic layer being perpendicularly-magnetized typically requires…

A comprehensive theoretical investigation on the field-driven reorientation transitions in uniaxial multilayers with antiferromagnetic coupling is presented. It is based on a complete survey of the one-dimensional solutions for the basic…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 U. K. Roessler , A. N. Bogdanov

Large spin current applied to a uniform ferromagnet leads to a spin-wave instability as pointed out recently. In this paper, it is shown that such spin-wave instability is absent in a state containing a domain wall, which indicates that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Junya Shibata , Gen Tatara , Hiroshi Kohno

We demonstrate that the hybrid structures consisting of a superconducting layer with an adjacent spin-textured ferromagnet demonstrate the variety of equilibrium magnetoelectric effects originating from coupling between the conduction…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-06-18 D. S. Rabinovich , I. V. Bobkova , A. M. Bobkov , M. A. Silaev