Effect of spin current on uniform ferromagnetism: Domain nucleation

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 7, 2005, Pages

  Shibata, Junya ^a,b   Tatara, Gen ^b,c   Kohno, Hiroshi ^c  

^a INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOMAIN NUCLEATION; SPATIAL GRADIENTS; SPIN CURRENT; SPIN-WAVE INSTABILITY;

ANISOTROPY; CURRENT DENSITY; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; GROUND STATE; HAMILTONIANS; MAGNETIC DOMAINS; MAGNETIZATION; NUCLEATION;

FERROMAGNETISM;

EID: 18144397236     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.076601     Document Type: Article

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