Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2011-11-18
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
13 pages. Submitted to J. Phys. Soc. Jpn
Scientific paper
We study the charge and spin currents passing through a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) on the basis of a tight-binding model. The currents are evaluated perturbatively with respect to the tunnel Hamiltonian. The charge current has the form $A[\bm M_1(t)\times\dot{\bm M}_1(t)]\cdot\bm M_2+B\dot{\bm M}_1(t)\cdot\bm M_2$, where $\bm M_1(t)$ and $\bm M_2$ denote the directions of the magnetization in the free layer and fixed layer, respectively. The constant $A$ vanishes when one or both layers are insulators, but the constant $B$ does not. The first term in the expression for charge current represents dissipation driven by the effective electric field induced by the dynamic magnetization. In addition, from an investigation of the spin current, we obtain the microscopic expression for the enhanced Gilbert damping constant $\varDelta \alpha$. We show that $\varDelta\alpha$ is proportional to the tunnel conductance and depends on the bias voltage.
Miura Daisuke
Sakuma Akimasa
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