Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2002-12-03
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
21 pages, 6 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.67.104430
It is known that the transfer of spin angular momenta between current carriers and local moments occurs near the interface of magnetic layers when their moments are non-collinear. However, to determine the magnitude of the transfer, one should calculate the spin transport properties far beyond the interface regions. Based on the spin diffusion equation, we present a self-consistent approach to evaluate the spin torque for a number of layered structures. One of the salient features is that the longitudinal and transverse components of spin accumulations are inter-twined from one layer to the next, and thus, the spin torque could be significantly amplified with respect to treatments which concentrate solely on the transport at the interface due to the presence of the much longer longitudinal spin diffusion length. We conclude that bare spin currents do not properly estimate the spin angular momentum transferred between to the magnetic background; the spin transfer that occurs at interfaces should be self-consistently determined by embedding it in our globally diffuse transport calculations.
Levy Peter M.
Shpiro Asya
Zhang Shufeng
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