Time dependence of spin accumulation and magnetoresistance in magnetic multilayers

被引：25

作者：

Zhang, S ^{[1
]}

Levy, PM

机构：

[1] Univ Missouri, Dept Phys & Astron, Columbia, MO 65211 USA

[2] NYU, Dept Phys, New York, NY 10003 USA

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 2002年 / 65卷 / 05期

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D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevB.65.052409

中图分类号：

T [工业技术];

学科分类号：

08 ;

摘要：

We derive and solve the equations that determine the time dependence of the spin accumulation attendant to driving a current across a magnetic multilayer, The time scales with the spin-flip relaxation time for the multilayer, which is of the order of picoseconds. As this is much shorter than the time it takes for current-induced switching of magnetic layers, the lack of spin accumulation does not seem to be a factor for the long switching times recently observed.

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