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We investigate theoretically the dynamics of magnetization coupled to the surface Dirac fermions of a three dimensional topological insulator, by deriving the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation in the presence of charge current. Both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-20 Takehito Yokoyama , Jiadong Zang , Naoto Nagaosa

We present a complete theory of the spin torque phenomena in a ultrasmall nanomagnet coupled to non-collinear ferromagnetic electrodes through tunnelling junctions. This model system can be described by a simple microscopic model which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-22 O. Parcollet , X. Waintal

We compute the Gilbert damping in (Ga,Mn)As based on the scattering theory of magnetization relaxation. The disorder scattering is included non-perturbatively. In the clean limit, the spin-pumping from the localized d-electrons to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-03 Kjetil M. D. Hals , Arne Brataas

Magnetic damping induces the temporal and spatial decay of spin waves, characterized by the damping factor and attenuating length, both of which can be measured to determine various magnetic and spin-transport parameters. By investigating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-17 Peng-Bin He , Mikhail Cherkasskii

We present a calculation of the dephasing time of electrons in a ferromagnet relevant for the conductance fluctuations. We focus on the contribution from the interaction with spin waves. Explicit results are presented for a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Jeroen Danon , Piet W. Brouwer

We study the magnetization dynamics in thin ferromagnetic films and small ferromagnetic particles in contact with paramagnetic conductors. A moving magnetization vector causes \textquotedblleft pumping\textquotedblright of spins into…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Arne Brataas , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

How magnetism affects the Seebeck effect is an important issue widely concerned in the thermoelectric community yet remaining elusive. Based on a thermodynamic analysis of spin degrees of freedom on varied $d$-electron based ferro- and…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-15 Peijie Sun , K. Ramesh Kumar , Meng Lyu , Zhen Wang , Junsen Xiang , Wenqing Zhang

Magnetization dynamics in single-domain ferromagnets can be triggered by charge current if spin-orbit coupling is sufficiently strong. We apply functional Keldysh theory to investigate Rashba spin-orbit torques in metallic two-dimensional…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-07-14 A. Qaiumzadeh , R. A. Duine , M. Titov

Relaxation effects are of primary importance in the description of magnetic excitations, leading to a myriad of methods addressing the phenomenological damping parameters. In this work, we consider several well-established forms of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-26 Filipe S. M. Guimarães , J. R. Suckert , Jonathan Chico , Juba Bouaziz , Manuel dos Santos Dias , Samir Lounis

We present a phenomenological theory of spin-orbit torques in a metallic ferromagnet with spin-relaxing boundaries. The model is rooted in the coupled diffusion of charge and spin in the bulk of the ferromagnet, where we account for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Hector Ochoa , Ricardo Zarzuela , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

A mesoscopic description of spin-transfer effect is proposed, based on the spin-injection mechanism occurring at the junction with a ferromagnet. The effect of spin-injection is to modify locally, in the ferromagnetic configuration space,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. -E. Wegrowe , S. M. Santos , M. -C. Ciornei , H. -J. Drouhin , J. M. Rubí

We investigate spin-orbit torques of metallic CuAu-I-type antiferromagnets using spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance tuned by a dc-bias current. The observed spin torques predominantly arise from diffusive transport of spin current…

Spin torques play a crucial role in operative properties of modern spintronic devices. To study current-driven magnetization dynamics, spin-torque terms providing the action of spin-polarized currents have previously often been added in a…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-12-26 Ritwik Mondal , Marco Berritta , Peter M. Oppeneer

Electron transport in magnetic orders and the magnetic orders dynamics have a mutual dependence, which provides the key mechanisms in spin-dependent phenomena. Recently, antiferromagnetic orders are focused on as the magnetic order, where…

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The dynamics of the magnetic order parameters of ferromagnet/normal-metal/ferromagnet spin valves and isolated ferromagnets may be very different. We investigate the role of the nonequilibrium spin-current exchange between the ferromagnets…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Arne Brataas , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

Time-resolved scanning Kerr effect microscopy has been used to study magnetization dynamics in Permalloy thin films excited by transient magnetic pulses generated by a micrometer-scale transmission line structure. The results are consistent…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Zhigang Liu , Fabian Giesen , Xiaobin Zhu , Richard D. Sydora , Mark R. Freeman

The synchronized magnetization dynamics in ferromagnets on a nonmagnetic heavy metal caused by the spin Hall effect is investigated theoretically. The direct and inverse spin Hall effects near the ferromagnetic/nonmagnetic interface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-22 Tomohiro Taniguchi

We study time-dependent electronic and spin transport through an electronic level connected to two leads and coupled with a single-molecule magnet via exchange interaction. The molecular spin is treated as a classical variable and precesses…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-24 Milena Filipovic , Cecilia Holmqvist , Federica Haupt , Wolfgang Belzig

When a spin-polarized current flows through a ferromagnet, the local magnetization receives a spin torque. Two consequences of this spin torque are studied. First, the uniformly magnetized ferromagnet becomes unstable if a sufficiently…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 Z. Li , J. He , S. Zhang

Based on the non-relativistic regime of the Dirac equation coupled to a torsion pseudo-vector, we study the dynamics of magnetization and how it is affected by the presence of torsion. We consider that torsion interacting terms in Dirac…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-22 Cristine N. Ferreira , Cresus F. L. Godinho , J. A. Helayël Neto