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\\A simple model for a superconductor with tunable critical current is studied theoretically. The model consists of a thin superconducting film with one vortex interacting with one magnetic dipole, whose magnetic moment is free to rotate,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Gilson Carneiro

Spin-transfer torque (STT) effects on the stationary forced response of nanoscale ferromagnets subject to thermal fluctuations and driven by an ac magnetic field of arbitrary strength and direction are investigated via a generic nanopillar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-12 D. J. Byrne , W. T. Coffey , Y. P. Kalmykov , S. V. Titov , J. E. Wegrowe

The current dependence of the exponent of the spin torque switching rate of an in-plane magnetized system was investigated by solving the Fokker-Planck equation with low temperature and small damping and current approximations. We derived…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-12 Tomohiro Taniguchi , Yasuhiro Utsumi , Michael Marthaler , Dmitri S. Golubev , Hiroshi Imamura

The spin-dependent transport of the electrons tunneling through a resonant tunneling structure with ferromagnetic multi-terminal under dc and ac fields is explored by means of the nonequilibrium Green function technique. A general…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Zhen-Gang Zhu , Gang Su , Qing-Rong Zheng , Biao Jin

Spin-transfer-torque, a transfer of angular momentum between the electron spin and the local magnetic moments, is a promising and key mechanism to control ferromagnetic materials in modern spintronic devices . However, much less attention…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-02-20 T. Moriyama , M. Nagata , K. Tanaka , K-J. Kim , H. Almasi , W. Wang , T. Ono

A new class of spin-transfer torque magnetic random access memory (STT-MRAM) is discussed, in which writing is achieved using thermally initiated magnonic current pulses as an alternative to conventional electric current pulses. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-28 Niladri N. Mojumder , David W. Abraham , Kaushik Roy , D. C. Worledge

Angular momentum transport in magnetic multilayered structures plays a central role in spintronic physics and devices. The angular momentum currents or spin currents are carried by either quasi-particles such as electrons and magnons, or by…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-04 Kai Chen , Weiwei Lin , C. L. Chien , Shufeng Zhang

The intrinsic spin Hall effect plays an important role in spintronics applications, such as spin-orbit torque-based memory. The bulk space group symmetry determines the form of the bulk spin current conductivity tensor. This paper considers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-26 Fei Xue , Paul M. Haney

The spin dynamics of electrons in chiral molecular systems remain a topic of intense interest, particularly regarding whether geometric chirality inherently induces spin polarization in current-carrying electrons. In this work, we employ ab…

We report on an experimental study of current induced switching in perpendicular magnetic random access memory (MRAM) cells with variable resistance-area products (RAs). Our results show that in addition to spin transfer torque (STT),…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-08 Goran Mihajlovic , Neil Smith , Tiffany Santos , Jui-Lung Li , Michael Tran , Matthew Carey , Bruce D. Terris , Jordan A. Katine

We study the charge and spin currents passing through a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) on the basis of a tight-binding model. The currents are evaluated perturbatively with respect to the tunnel Hamiltonian. The charge current has the form…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-11 Daisuke Miura , Akimasa Sakuma

We study higher spin tensor currents in quantum field theory. Scalar, spinor and vector fields admit unique "improved" currents of arbitrary spin, traceless and conserved. Off-criticality as well as at interacting fixed points conservation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Anselmi

Spin-current injection into an organic semiconductor $\rm{\kappa\text{-}(BEDT\text{-}TTF)_2Cu[N(CN)_2]Br}$ film induced by the spin pumping from an yttrium iron garnet (YIG) film. When magnetization dynamics in the YIG film is excited by…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-04 Z. Qiu , M. Uruichi , D. Hou , K. Uchida , H. M. Yamamoto , E. Saitoh

Spin valves incorporating perpendicularly magnetized materials are promising structures for memory elements and high-frequency generators. We report the angular dependence of the spin-transfer torque in spin valves with perpendicular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Xingtao Jia , Ying Li , Ke Xia , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

We report on an {\em ab-initio} study of giant magnetoresistance (GMR) and current-induced-torques (CITs) in Cr/Au multilayers that is based on non-equilibrium Green's functions and spin density functional theory. We find substantial GMR…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. M. Haney , D. Waldron , R. A. Duine , A. S. Nunez , H. Guo , A. H. MacDonald

We demonstrate that the addition of Dy capping layers in current perpendicular to the plane giant magneto-resistive spin-valves can increase the critical current density beyond which spin-torque induced instabilities are observed by about a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Maat , N. Smith , M. J. Carey , J. R. Childress

The concept of perpendicular shape anisotropy spin-transfer torque magnetic random-access memory (PSA-STT-MRAM) consists in increasing the storage layer thickness to values comparable to the cell diameter, to induce a perpendicular shape…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 N. Caçoilo , S. Lequeux , B. M. S. Teixeira , B. Dieny , R. C. Sousa , N. A. Sobolev , O. Fruchart , I. L. Prejbeanu , L. D. Buda-Prejbeanu

A three-dimensional self-consistent spin transport model is developed, which includes both tunnelling transport, as well as metallic transport. Using the spin accumulation computed either side of a tunnel barrier, spin torques are obtained,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-01 Serban Lepadatu , Alexey Dobrynin

We performed measurements of Py/Cu and Py/Ag lateral spin valves as function of injection current direction and magnitude. Above a 'critical' current, there is an unexpected dependence of spin injection on current direction. Positive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-16 Mikhail Erekhinsky , Fèlix Casanova , Ivan K. Schuller , Amos Sharoni

We report the possibility of achieving an order of magnitude reduction in the energy dissipation needed to write bits in perpendicular magnetic tunnel junctions (p-MTJs) by simulating the magnetization dynamics under a combination of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Austin Roe , Dhritiman Bhattacharya , Jayasimha Atulasimha