Unified drift-diffusion theory for transverse spin currents in spin valves, domain walls, and other textured magnets

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Petitjean, Cyril ^a,b   Luc, David ^a   Waintal, Xavier ^a  

^a CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO CALCULATIONS; ADIABATIC LIMIT; ANALYTIC FORMULA; ARBITRARY SPIN; CHARACTERISTIC LENGTH; DRIFT DIFFUSION; DRIFT-DIFFUSION APPROACHES; FERROMAGNETS; LENGTH SCALE; MATERIAL PARAMETER; MEAN FREE PATH; NON-ADIABATIC; SPIN COHERENCE; SPIN EFFECTS; SPIN PRECESSION; SPIN TEXTURES; SPIN VALVE; SPIN-DIFFUSION LENGTH; TRANSVERSE SPIN CURRENTS;

GIANT MAGNETORESISTANCE; MAGNETS; TEXTURES;

DIFFUSION;

EID: 84866327180     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.117204     Document Type: Article

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