Electronic transport driven spin-dynamics

Details Electronic transport driven spin-dynamics Electronic transport driven spin-dynamics

2008-11-03

arxiv.org/abs/0811.0204v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

7 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

We propose a model to explore the dynamics of spin-systems coupled by exchange interaction to the conduction band electrons of a semiconductor material that forms the channel in a ferromagnet/semiconductor/ferromagnet spin-valve structure. We show that recent observation of the novel transient transport signature in a MnAs/GaAs/MnAs spin-valve structure with paramagnetic Mn impurities [D. Saha et al., Phys. Rev. Lett., 100, 196603 (2008)] can be quantitatively understood in terms of current driven dynamical polarization of Mn spins. Using our model of spin polarized transport through Schottky barriers at the two ferromagnet/semiconductor junctions in a spin-valve structure and a dynamical equation describing the paramagnetic impurities coupled to conduction band electrons we explain the scaling behaviour of observed transient features such as the magnitude and time-scale with temperature.

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