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Using one of the methods of quantum nonequilibrium statistical physics we have investigated the spin transport transverse to the normal metal/ferromagnetic insulator interface in hybrid nanostructures. An approximation of the effective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 I. I. Lyapilin , M. S. Okorokov , V. V. Ustinov

Spin pumping and spin-transfer torques are two reciprocal phenomena widely studied in ferromagnetic materials. However, pumping from antiferromagnets and its relation to current-induced torques have not been explored. By calculating how…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-04 Ran Cheng , Jiang Xiao , Qian Niu , Arne Brataas

We theoretically study the spin current and its dc noise generated between two spin-1/2 spin chains weakly coupled at a single site in the presence of an over-population of spin excitations and a temperature elevation in one subsystem…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-31 Joshua Aftergood , So Takei

It is shown that the maximum stable output of a CPP-GMR sensor is increased significantly by using a synthetic ferrimagnet free layer, provided the electron current flows from free layer to reference layer. This free layer allows a larger…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-09-10 M. J. Carey , Neil Smith , S. Maat , J. R. Childress

Efficient generation of spin currents from charge currents is of high importance for memory and logic applications of spintronics. In particular, generation of spin currents from charge currents in high spin-orbit coupling metals has the…

Currents can induce spin excitations in antiferromagnets, even when they are insulating. We investigate how spin transfer can cause antiferromagnetic resonance in bilayers and trilayers that consist of one antiferromagnetic insulator and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-28 Øyvind Johansen , Hans Skarsvåg , Arne Brataas

Despite the potential advantages of information storage in antiferromagnetically coupled materials, it remains unclear whether one can control the magnetic moment orientation efficiently because of the cancelled magnetic moment. Here, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-31 Joseph Finley , Luqiao Liu

We present a time-resolved study of the magnetization dynamics in a microstructured Cr$|$Heusler$|$Pt waveguide driven by the Spin-Hall-Effect and the Spin-Transfer-Torque effect via short current pulses. In particular, we focus on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 T. Meyer , T. Brächer , F. Heussner , A. A. Serga , H. Naganuma , K. Mukaiyama , M. Oogane , Y. Ando , B. Hillebrands , P. Pirro

We achieve current-induced switching in collinear insulating antiferromagnetic CoO/Pt, with fourfold in-plane magnetic anisotropy. This is measured electrically by spin Hall magnetoresistance and confirmed by the magnetic field-induced…

We investigate experimentally the synchronization of a vortex based spin transfer oscillator to an external rf current whose frequency is at multiple integers, as well as half integer, of the oscillator frequency. Through a theoretical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-21 R. Lebrun , A. Jenkins , A. Dussaux , N. Locatelli , S. Tsunegi , E. Grimaldi , H. Kubota , P. Bortolotti , K. Yakushiji , J. Grollier , A. Fukushima , S. Yuasa , V. Cros

The authors demonstrate readout of electrically detected magnetic resonance at radio frequencies by means of an LCR tank circuit. Applied to a silicon field-effect transistor at milli-kelvin temperatures, this method shows a 25-fold…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-12 H. Huebl , R. P. Starrett , D. R. McCamey , A. J. Ferguson , L. H. Willems van Beveren

A magnonic spin current crossing a ferromagnet-metal interface is accompanied by spin current shot noise arising from the discrete quanta of spin carried by magnons. In thin films, e.g., the spin of so-called squeezed magnons have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-20 Luise Siegl , Michaela Lammel , Akashdeep Kamra , Hans Huebl , Wolfgang Belzig , Sebastian T. B. Goennenwein

Ultrafast demagnetization of magnetic layers pumped by a femtosecond laser pulse is accompanied by a nonthermal spin-polarized current of hot electrons. These spin currents are studied here theoretically in a spin valve with noncollinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-26 Pavel Baláž , Martin Žonda , Karel Carva , Pablo Maldonado , Peter M. Oppeneer

Electrical switching of antiferromagnets is an exciting recent development in spintronics, which promises active antiferromagnetic devices with high speed and low energy cost. In this emerging field, there is an active debate about the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Yang Cheng , Egecan Cogulu , Rachel D. Resnick , Justin J. Michel , Nahuel N. Statuto , Andrew D. Kent , Fengyuan Yang

We present measurements of magneto-Seebeck effect on a spin valve with in-plane thermal gradient. We measured open circuit voltage and short circuit current by applying a temperature gradient across a spin valve stack, where one of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-18 S. Jain , D. D. Lam , A. Bose , H. Sharma , V. R. Palkar , C. V. Tomy , Y. Suzuki , A. A. Tulapurkar

Spin-orbit-torque (SOT) induced magnetization switching in Co/Pt/Co trilayer, with two Co layers exhibiting magnetization easy axes orthogonal to each other is investigated. Pt layer is used as a source of spin-polarized current as it is…

We theoretically explore the generation of spin current driven by a temperature gradient in a junction between a chiral insulator and a normal metal. Based on the gyromagnetic response induced by microscopic acoustic-phonon-mediated lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-20 Naoki Nishimura , Takumi Funato , Mamoru Matsuo , Takeo Kato

Current-induced spin-orbit torques provide a versatile tool for switching magnetic devices. In perpendicular magnets, the dampinglike component of the torque is the main driver of magnetization reversal. The degree to which the fieldlike…

In a ferromagnet/heavy-metal bilayer device with strong spin Hall effect an in-plane current excites magnetic dynamics through spin torque. We analyze bilayers with perpendicular magnetization and calculate three-dimensional phase diagrams…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Shu Yan , Ya. B. Bazaliy

We develop a low-temperature, long-wavelength theory for the interfacial spin Seebeck effect (SSE) in easy-axis antiferromagnets. The field-induced spin-flop (SF) transition of N\'eel order is associated with a qualitative change in SSE…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-29 Derek Reitz , Junxue Li , Wei Yuan , Jing Shi , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak