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Using irreversible thermodynamics we show that current-induced spin transfer torque within a magnetic domain implies spin pumping of current within that domain. This has experimental implications for samples both with conducting leads and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Wayne M. Saslow

A consistent theory to describe the correlated dynamics of quantum mechanical itinerant spins and semiclassical local magnetization is given. We consider the itinerant spins as quantum mechanical operators, whereas local moments are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Jun-ichiro Kishine , A. S. Ovchinnikov

It has recently been proposed that spin-transfer torques in magnetic systems with anisotropic exchange can be strongly enhanced, reducing the characteristic current density with up to four orders of magnitude compared to conventional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-14 Henrik Enoksen , Asle Sudbø , Jacob Linder

We study the effect of a domain wall on the electronic transport in ferromagnetic quantum wires. Due to the transverse confinement, conduction channels arise. In the presence of a domain wall, spin up and spin down electrons in these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Victor A. Gopar , Dietmar Weinmann , Rodolfo A. Jalabert , Robert L. Stamps

Within the s-d model description, we derive the current-driven spin torque in a ferromagnet, taking explicitly into account a spin-relaxing Caldeira-Leggett bath coupling to the s-electrons. We derive Bloch-Redfield equations of motion for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 M. Thorwart , R. Egger

Theoretically, we study the dynamics of a current induced domain wall in the bi-layer structure consists of a ferromagnetic layer and a non-magnetic metal layer with strong spin-orbit coupling in the presence of spin-Hall effect. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-21 R. Arun , P. Sabareesan , M. Daniel

We investigate current-driven domain wall (DW) propagation in magnetic nanowires in the framework of the modified Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation with both adiabatic and nonadiabatic spin torque (NAST) terms. Contrary to the common opinion…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-18 Z. Z. Sun , J. Schliemann , P. Yan , X. R. Wang

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…

We calculate the charge current in a metallic ferromagnet to first order in the time derivative of the magnetization direction. Irrespective of the microscopic details, the result can be expressed in terms of the conductivities of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-01-09 R. A. Duine

Non-adiabatic correction to spin transfer torque arising from fast-varying spin texture is calculated treating conduction electron fully quantum mechanically. The torque is non-local in space, and is shown to equivalent to a force (due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Gen Tatara , Hiroshi Kohno , Junya Shibata , Yann Lemaho , Kyung-Jin Lee

We develop a comprehensive description of static and dynamic spin-transfer torque at interfaces between a normal metal and a magnetic material. Specific examples of the latter include ferromagnets, collinear and noncollinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Hector Ochoa

The magnetization dynamics equation predicts that a domain wall that changes structure should undergo a displacement by itself - automotion - due to the relaxation of the linear momentum that is associated with the wall structure. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Jean-Yves Chauleau , Raphaël Weil , André Thiaville , Jacques Miltat

The charge and spin diffusion equations taking into account spin-flip and spin-transfer torque were numerically solved using a finite element method in complex non-collinear geometry with strongly inhomogeneous current flow. As an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-14 N. Strelkov , A. Vedyayev , N. Ryzhanova , D. Gusakova , L. D. Buda-Prejbeanu , M. Chshiev , S. Amara , N. de Mestier , C. Baraduc , B. Dieny

Current-induced spin-transfer torques (STTs) have been studied in Fe, Co and Ni domain walls (DWs) by the method based on the first-principles noncollinear calculations of scattering wave functions expanded in the tight-binding linearized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-02 Ling Tang , Zhijun Xu , Zejin Yang

Antiferromagnetic materials are outstanding candidates for next generation spintronic applications, because their ultrafast spin dynamics makes it possible to realize several orders of magnitude higher-speed devices than conventional…

We present a theoretical study of the influence of magnetic viscosity on current-driven domain wall dynamics. In particular we examine how domain wall depinning transitions, driven by thermal activation, are influenced by the adiabatic and…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-29 Joo-Von Kim , Capucine Burrowes

We present a theoretical study of spin-dependent transport through a ferromagnetic domain wall. With an increase of the number of components of the exchange coupling, we have observed that the variance of the conductance becomes half. As…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 J. Ohe , M. Yamamoto , T. Ohtsuki , K. Slevin

We study theoretically hole current-driven domain wall dynamics in (Ga,Mn)As. We show that the spin-orbit coupling causes significant hole reflection at the domain wall, even in the adiabatic limit when the wall is much thicker than the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Anh Kiet Nguyen , Hans Joakim Skadsem , Arne Brataas

We use time-resolved measurement and modeling to study the spin-torque induced motion of a domain wall in perpendicular anisotropy magnets. In disc of diameters between 70 and 100 nm, the wall drifts across the disc with pronounced…

This review describes in detail the essential techniques used in microscopic theories on spintronics. We have investigated the domain wall dynamics induced by electric current based on the $s$-$d$ exchange model. The domain wall is treated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-07 Gen Tatara , Hiroshi Kohno , Junya Shibata