Inelastic electron-magnon interaction and spin transfer torque

被引：48

作者：

Balashov, T. ^{[1
]}

Takacs, A. F. ^{[1
]}

Daene, M. ^{[2
]}

Ernst, A. ^{[2
]}

Bruno, P. ^{[2
,3
]}

Wulfhekel, W. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Karlsruhe TH, Inst Phys, D-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany

[2] Max Planck Inst Mikrostrukturphys, D-06120 Halle, Germany

[3] European Synchrotron Radiat Facil, F-38043 Grenoble, France

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 2008年 / 78卷 / 17期

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D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevB.78.174404

中图分类号：

T [工业技术];

学科分类号：

08 ;

摘要：

A combined experimental and theoretical study on the inelastic transfer of spin momentum between a spin-polarized tunneling current and a ferromagnetic electrode is presented. Using inelastic tunneling spectroscopy across a vacuum gap at 4 K we show that high-energy magnons are efficiently excited in inelastic-scattering events and that the asymmetry of magnon excitation for tunneling into and out of the ferromagnet is proportional to the spin polarization of the tunneling current. We discuss the size of the resulting spin torque and explain the energy distribution of the excited magnons on basis of spin scattering mediated by the itinerant exchange interaction.

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