Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2011-10-31
Phys. Rev. B 85, 054406 (2012)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
16 pages, 9 figures, PDFLaTeX; improved Fig. 4 and references added
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.85.054406
We develop a time-dependent nonequilibrium Green function (NEGF) approach to the problem of spin pumping by precessing magnetization in one of the ferromagnetic layers within F/I/F magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) or F/I/N semi-MTJs in the presence of intrinsic Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC) at the F/I interface or the extrinsic SOC in the bulk of F layers of finite thickness (F-ferromagnet; N-normal metal; I-insulating barrier). To express the time-averaged pumped charge current, or the corresponding dc voltage signal in open circuits that was measured in recent experiments on semi-MTJs [T. Moriyama et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 067602 (2008)], we construct a novel solution for the double-time-Fourier-transformed NEGFs. The two energy arguments of NEGFs in this representation are connected by the Floquet theorem describing multiphoton emission and absorption processes. Within this fully quantum-mechanical treatment of the conduction electrons, we find that: (i) only in the presence of the interfacial Rashba SOC the non-zero dc pumping voltage in F/I/N semi-MTJ can emerge at the adiabatic level (i.e., proportional to microwave frequency); (ii) a unique signature of this charge pumping phenomenon, which disappears if Rashba SOC is not located with the precessing F layer, is dc pumping voltage that changes sign as the function of the precession cone angle; (iii) unlike standard spin pumping in the absence of SOCs, where one emitted or absorbed microwave photon is sufficient to match the exact solution in the frame rotating with the magnetization, the presence of the Rashba SOC requires to take into account up to ten photons in order to reach the asymptotic value of pumped charge current; (iv) disorder within F/I/F MTJs can enhance the dc pumping voltage in the quasiballistic transport regime; ...
Fabian Jaroslav
Mahfouzi Farzad
Nagaosa Naoto
Nikolic Branislav K.
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