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Magnetic force microscopy and scanning tunneling microscopy data could be used to test computer numerical models of magnetism. The elaborated numerical model of a face-centered lattice Ising spins is based on pixel distribution in the image…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-12-07 Vitalii Kapitan , Alexey Peretyatko , Konstantin Nefedev

The influence of possible magnetic inertia effects has recently drawn attention in ultrafast magnetization dynamics and switching. Here we derive rigorously a description of inertia in the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation on the basis of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-07-26 Ritwik Mondal , Marco Berritta , Ashis K. Nandy , Peter M. Oppeneer

The magnetization dynamics of a single domain ferromagnet in contact with a thermal bath is studied by scattering theory. We recover the Landau-Liftshitz-Gilbert equation and express the effective fields and Gilbert damping tensor in terms…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-01 Arne Brataas , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

We demonstrate that the magneto-optic-Kerr effect with normal light incidence can be used to obtain quantitative optical measurements of both components of spin-orbit-induced torque (both the antidamping and effective-field components) in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-31 Xin Fan , Alex R. Mellnik , Wenrui Wang , Neal Reynolds , Tao Wang , Halise Celik , Virginia O. Lorenz , Daniel C. Ralph , John Q. Xiao

The dynamics of magnetic moments consist of a precession around the magnetic field direction and a relaxation towards the field to minimize the energy. While the magnetic moment and the angular momentum are conventionally assumed to be…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-06-14 Ritwik Mondal , Levente Rózsa , Michael Farle , Peter M. Oppeneer , Ulrich Nowak , Mikhail Cherkasskii

Circulating orbital currents produced by the spin-orbit interaction for a single electron spin in a quantum dot are explicitly evaluated at zero magnetic field, along with their effect on the total magnetic moment (spin and orbital) of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-24 J. van Bree , A. Yu. Silov , P. M. Koenraad , M. E. Flatté

We study spin motive forces, i.e, spin-dependent forces, and voltages induced by time-dependent magnetization textures, for moving magnetic vortices and domain walls. First, we consider the voltage generated by a one-dimensional…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-29 M. E. Lucassen , G. C. F. L. Kruis , R. Lavrijsen , H. J. M. Swagten , B. Koopmans , R. A. Duine

Spin-orbit torques offer a promising mechanism for electrically controlling magnetization dynamics in nanoscale heterostructures. While spin-orbit torques occur predominately at interfaces, the physical mechanisms underlying these torques…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 Vivek P. Amin , Paul M. Haney , Mark D. Stiles

The spin-dependent inertial force in an accelerating system under the presence of electromagnetic fields is derived from the generally covariant Dirac equation. Spin currents are evaluated by the force up to the lowest order of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Mamoru Matsuo , Jun'ichi Ieda , Eiji Saitoh , Sadamichi Maekawa

We calculated the main dynamic parameters of the spin polarized current induced magnetic vortex oscillations in nanopillars, such as the range of current density, where a vortex steady oscillations exist, the oscillation frequency and orbit…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-12-31 Konstantin Y. Guslienko , Gloria R. Aranda , Julian M. Gonzalez

The spin torque exerted on a magnetic moment is a reaction to spin filtering when spin-polarized electrons interact with a thin ferromagnetic film. We show that, for certain conditions, a spin transmission resonance (STR) gives rise to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Wonkee Kim , F. Marsiglio

Using an effective Hamiltonian including the Zeeman and internal interactions, we describe the quantum theory of magnetization dynamics when the spin system evolves non-adiabatically and out of equilibrium. The Lewis-Riesenfeld dynamical…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-11-26 F. M. Saradzhev , F. C. Khanna , Sang Pyo Kim , M. de Montigny

Spin pumping and spin-transfer torques are two reciprocal phenomena widely studied in ferromagnetic materials. However, pumping from antiferromagnets and its relation to current-induced torques have not been explored. By calculating how…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-04 Ran Cheng , Jiang Xiao , Qian Niu , Arne Brataas

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

The linear response of itinerant transition metal ferromagnets to transverse magnetic fields is studied in a self-consistent adiabatic local-density approximation. The susceptibility is calculated from a microscopic Hamiltonian, including…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Hans Joakim Skadsem , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Arne Brataas , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

The spin effects on electromagnetic waves in a strongly magnetized plasma with rare collisions is considered with the help of relativistic kinetic equations, which takes into account the electron spin dynamics in the selfconsistent electric…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 V. N. Oraevsky , V. B. Semikoz , A. S. Volokitin

We present a brief review on spin transverse force, which exerts on the spin as the electron is moving in an electric field. This force, analogue to the Lorentz force on electron charge, is perpendicular to the electric field and spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-14 Bin Zhou , Shun-Qing Shen

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

Spin-dynamics techniques can now be used to study the deterministic time-dependent behavior of magnetic systems containing over 10^5 spins with quite good accuracy. This approach will be introduced, including the theoretical foundations of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. P. Landau , Alex Bunker , Hans Gerd Evertz , M. Krech , Shan-Ho Tsai

Quantum limits of power dissipation in spintronic computing are estimated. A computing element composed of a single electron in a quantum dot is considered. Dynamics of its spin due to external magnetic field and interaction with adjacent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dmitri E. Nikonov , George I. Bourianoff , Paolo Gargini