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Unidirectional spin-torque driven magnetization dynamics

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Joseph Sklenar *
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Wei Zhang
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M. Benjamin Jungfleisch
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Hilal Saglam
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Scott Grudichak
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Wanjun Jiang
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John E. Pearson
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J. B. Ketterson
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Axel Hoffmann
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.95.224431delete
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The rich physics associated with magnetism often centers around directional effects. Here we demonstrate how spin-transfer torques in general result in unidirectional ferromagnetic resonance dynamics upon field reversal. The unidirectionality is a direct consequence of both field-like and damping-like dynamic torques simultaneously driving the motion. This directional effect arises from the field-like torque being odd and the damping-like torque being even under field reversal. The directional effect is observed when the magnetization has both an in-plane and out-of-plane component, since then the linear combination of the torques rotates with a different handedness around the magnetization as the magnetization is tipped out-of-plane. The effect is experimentally investigated via spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance measurements with the field applied at arbitrary directions away from the interface normal. The measured asymmetry of the voltage spectra are well explained within a phenomenological torque model.
Keywords:
MAGNETORESISTANCE
MULTILAYERS
EXCITATION
MAGNITUDE
RESONANCE
WAVES
FILMS
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Physical Review B cover
Physical Review B
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Argonne National Laboratory
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united states department of energy (doe)
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