Slonczewski spin-torque as negative damping: Fokker-Planck computation of energy distribution

Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials

Volumn 286, Issue SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 370-374

  Apalkov, D M ^a   Visscher, P B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fokker Planck equation; Spin torque

Indexed keywords

FOKKER-PLANCK (FP) EQUATIONS; SPIN TORQUE; SPIN-TORQUE SWITCHING; SWITCHING RATES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAGNETIZATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SWITCHING; THIN FILMS; TORQUE;

DAMPING;

EID: 11444261402     PISSN: 03048853     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmmm.2004.09.094     Document Type: Conference Paper

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