Theory of Current-Driven Domain Wall Motion: Spin Transfer versus Momentum Transfer

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 8, 2004, Pages

  Tatara, Gen ^a   Kohno, Hiroshi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRONS; FUNCTIONS; HAMILTONIANS; MAGNETIC FILMS; MAGNETIZATION; POLARIZATION; THRESHOLD VOLTAGE; TORQUE;

MOMENTUM TRANSFER; SPINTRONICS;

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS;

EID: 1842452738     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.086601     Document Type: Article

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