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We study the magnetization dynamics of thin-film magnetic elements with in-plane magnetization subject to a spin-current flowing perpendicular to the film plane. We derive a reduced partial differential equation for the in-plane…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-26 Ross G. Lund , Gabriel D. Chaves O'Flynn , Andrew D. Kent , Cyrill B. Muratov

We show how, beginning with the Fokker--Planck equation for electrons emitting synchrotron radiation in a storage ring, the corresponding equation for spin motion can be constructed. This is an equation of the Bloch type for the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2011-04-20 K. Heinemann , D. P. Barber

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

We investigate dynamical fluctuations of transferred magnetization in the one-dimensional lattice Landau--Lifshitz magnet with uniaxial anisotropy, representing an emblematic model of interacting spins. We demonstrate that the structure of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-08 Žiga Krajnik , Enej Ilievski , Tomaž Prosen

In comparison to transport of spin polarization in ferromagnets, transport of electric polarization in ferroelectrics remains less explored. Taking an excitonic insulator model of electronic ferroelectricity as a prototypical example, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-15 Hiroto Adachi , Naoshi Ikeda , Eiji Saitoh

We present a framework for modeling the transport of any number of globally conserved quantities in any spatial configuration and apply it to obtain a model of magnetization transport for spin-systems that is valid in new regimes (including…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-15 Rico A. R. Picone , Joseph L. Garbini , John A. Sidles

In this paper we present an overview of recent progress made in the understanding of the spin-torque induced magnetization dynamics in nanodevices using mesoscopic micromagnetic simulations. We first specify how a spin-torque term may be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. V. Berkov , J. Miltat

We investigate the spin transfer torque (STT) in the magnetic multilayer structures with micromagnetic simulations. We implement the STT contribution for the magnetic multilayer structures in addition to the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG)…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-01-24 Chun-Yeol You

Spin-transfer torque (STT) provides key mechanisms for current-induced phenomena in ferromagnets. While it is widely accepted that STT involves both adiabatic and non-adiabatic contributions, their underlying physics and range of validity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-23 Ran Cheng , Qian Niu

The electron transmission $T$ is evaluated through waveguides, in which the strength of the spin-orbit interaction(SOI) $\alpha$ is varied periodically, using the transfer-matrix technique. It is shown that $T$ exhibits a {\it…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 X. F. Wang , P. Vasilopoulos

In this article we extend the currently established diffusion theory of spin-dependent electrical conduction by including spin-dependent thermoelectricity and thermal transport. Using this theory, we propose new experiments aimed at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-17 A. Slachter , F. L. Bakker , B. J. van Wees

Materials with spin-momentum locked surface or interface states provide an interesting playground for studying physics and application of charge-spin current conversion. To characterize their non-equilibrium magnetic and transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Ping Tang , Xiufeng Han , Shufeng Zhang

The Landau-Lifshitz (L-L) equation describing the time dependence of the magnetisation vector is numerically integrated fully without any simplifying assumptions in the time domain and the magnetisation time series obtained is Fourier…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-09-25 C. Tannous , A. Fessant , J. Gieraltowski , J. P. Jay , D. Spenato , J. Langlois , H. Le Gall

We propose a mechanism of angular momentum conversion from optical transverse spin in surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) to conduction electron spin. Free electrons in the metal follow the transversally spinning electric field of SPP, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Daigo Oue , Mamoru Matsuo

We construct a spin-drift-diffusion model to describe spin-polarized electron transport in zincblende semiconductors in the presence of magnetic fields, electric fields, and off-diagonal strain. We present predictions of the model for…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Hruska , S. Kos , S. A. Crooker , A. Saxena , D. L. Smith

Using a new scheme of the derivation of the non-linear $\sigma$-model we consider the electron motion in a random magnetic field (RMF) in two dimensions. The derivation is based on writing quasiclassical equations and representing their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. B. Efetov , V. R. Kogan

In spin-transfer torque (STT) for technological applications, the miniaturization of the magnet may reach the stage of requiring a fully quantum-mechanical treatment. We present an STT theory which uses the quantum macrospin ground and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-10 Tiamhock Tay , L. J. Sham

We study the influence of an electric current on a continuous non-collinear antiferromagnetic texture. Despite the lack of a net magnetic moment we find that the exchange interaction between conduction electrons and local magnetization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-24 A. C. Swaving , R. A. Duine

Transport properties of itinerant electrons interacting with local spins are analyzed as function of the bandwidth, $W$, the exchange interaction, $J$, and the band filling, $n$, near the band edge. Numerical results have been obtained…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Gomez-Santos , S. Fratini , F. Guinea

Spin fluctuations have a substantial influence on the electron and lattice behaviors in magnetic materials, which, however, is difficult to be tracked properly by prevalent first-principles methods. We propose a versatile self-adaptive…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-14 Zefeng Cai , Ke Wang , Yong Xu , Su-Huai Wei , Ben Xu