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A Microscopic Description of Spin Dynamics in Magnetic Multilayer Nanostructures

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Nanocomposites, Nanostructures, and Their Applications (NANO 2018)

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Formation of the spin torque on the magnetization and the magnetization dynamics in multilayer magnetic nanostructures with metal nonmagnetic spacers have been studied. In a microscopic approach with spinor wave functions, the expansion of spin-polarized itinerant electrons across the system with spin-dependent interface scattering is considered for different conductance regimes of the spacer. Basing on the s-d exchange model of ferromagnetism, the out-of-equilibrium spin dynamics in the magnetic multilayer nanostructures is studied. Accounting for the exchange processes between the itinerant s and the localized d electrons, it is shown the key role of electron-magnon spin-flop scattering in the ultrafast magnetization dynamics. According to the accepted description of relaxation in ferromagnetic metals, the dissipation with loss of energy and angular momentum from localized d electrons is mediated by the exchange interaction to the itinerant s electrons.

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Korostil, A.M., Krupa, M.M. (2019). A Microscopic Description of Spin Dynamics in Magnetic Multilayer Nanostructures. In: Fesenko, O., Yatsenko, L. (eds) Nanocomposites, Nanostructures, and Their Applications. NANO 2018. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 221. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17759-1_1

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