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We discuss a spin-transfer torque device, where the role of the soft ferromagnetic layer is played by a magnetic particle or a magnetic molecule, in weak tunnel contact with two spin polarized leads. We investigate if the magnetization of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-19 P. Gartland , D. Davidovic

We present a microscopic theory of spin torque due to diffusive spin currents induced by spin accumulation. The obtained expression is a natural extension of the existing one due to 'local' spin currents associated with ordinary electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Kazuhiro Hosono , Junya Shibata , Hiroshi Kohno , Yukio Nozaki

We investigate an interfacial spin-transfer torque and $\beta$-term torque with alternating current (AC) parallel to a magnetic interface. We find that both torques are resonantly enhanced as the AC frequency approaches to the exchange…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-11 Junji Fujimoto , Mamoru Matsuo

In a nanomagnet (whose total spin S< 1000), very small polarized currents can lead to magnetic reversal. Treating on the same footing the transport and magnetic properties of a nanomagnet connected to magnetic leads via tunneling barriers,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 X. Waintal , O. Parcollet

Efficient electrical manipulation of domain walls is key to developing magnetic devices with fast switching capabilities and low energy consumption. Here we demonstrate Bloch-type domain wall velocities exceeding 1 km s$^{-1}$ in the…

We theoretically investigate current-induced magnetization dynamics in chiral-lattice helimagnets. Spin-orbit coupling in non-centrosymmetric crystals induces a reactive spin-transfer torque that has not been previously considered. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-09 Kjetil M. D. Hals , Arne Brataas

We consider an implementation of the adiabatic spin dynamics approach in a tight-binding description of the electronic structure. The adiabatic approximation for spin-degrees of freedom assumes that the faster electronic degrees of freedom…

In this paper we show that the spin transfer torque can be described by a pseudo magnetic field, proportional to the magnetic moment of the itinerant electrons that enters the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation in the same way as other…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-24 Sayeef Salahuddin , Deepanjan Datta , Supriyo Datta

Spin-transfer torques occur in magnetic heterostructures because the transverse component of a spin current that flows from a non-magnet into a ferromagnet is absorbed at the interface. We demonstrate this fact explicitly using free…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 M. D. Stiles , A. Zangwill

Spin-dependent transport is investigated in ballistic regime through the interface between a ferromagnet and a spin spiral. We show that spin-dependent interferences lead to a new type of diffraction called "spin-diffraction". It is shown…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Aurélien Manchon , Natalya Ryzhanova , A. Vedyayev , Bernard Dieny

Spin-transfer torque and current induced spin dynamics in spin-valve nanopillars with the free magnetic layer located between two magnetic films of fixed magnetic moments is considered theoretically. The spin-transfer torque in the limit of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-12 Pavel Balaz , Martin Gmitra , Jozef Barnas

The dynamics of metastable magnetic domain walls in straight ferromagnetic nanowires under spin waves, external magnetic fields, and current induced spin transfer torque are studied by micromagnetic simulations. It is found that in contrast…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-30 Mahdi Jamali , Kyung-Jin Lee , Hyunsoo Yang

The spin-transfer torque is a fundamental physical quantity to operate the spintronics devices such as racetrack memory. We theoretically study the spin-transfer torque and analyze the dynamics of the magnetic domain walls in magnetic Weyl…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-08 Daichi Kurebayashi , Kentaro Nomura

We provide a theoretical description of diffusive charge and spin transport in hybrid devices containing altermagnets. Based on recently derived drift--diffusion equations for coupled charge and spin dynamics and general boundary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Nicolás Sigales , Tim Kokkeler , Gonzalo de Polsi , Sebastian Bergeret

Spin waves can induce domain wall motion in ferromagnets. We derive the equations of motion for a transverse domain wall driven by spin waves. Our calculations show that the magnonic spin-transfer torque does not cause rotation-induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 Vetle Risinggård , Erlend Grytli Tveten , Arne Brataas , Jacob Linder

The spin flip of the conduction electrons at the interface of a ferromagnetic and a nonmagnetic part of a metallic wire, suspended between two electrodes, is shown to tort the wire when a current is driven through it. In order to enhance…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-10-26 Peter Fulde , Stefan Kettemann

The spin transfer torque in all-metal dual spin valve, in which two antiparallelly aligned pinned ferromagnetic layers are on the two sides of a free ferromagnetic layer with two thin nonmagnetic spacers in between, is studied in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-06-23 P. Yan , Z. Z. Sun , X. R. Wang

The crossover from nonadiabatic to adiabatic electron transfer has been theoretically studied under a spin-boson model (dissipative two-state system) description. We present numerically exact data for the thermal transfer rate and the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Muehlbacher , R. Egger

We study the influence of the spin torque, which depends on the space and time derivative of magnetization, on magnetization reversal time in a ferromagnetic fine particle. The spin torque operates to dissipate the angular momentum of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-05 Kazushige Hyodo , Chiharu Mitsumata , Akimasa Sakuma

We develop a theory for spin transport and magnetization dynamics in a quantum-dot spin valve, i.e., two magnetic reservoirs coupled to a quantum dot. Our theory is able to take into account effects of strong correlations. We demonstrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-09 N. M. Gergs , S. A. Bender , R. A. Duine , D. Schuricht