Different steady states for spin currents in noncollinear multilayers
arXiv:cond-mat/0405613 · doi:10.1088/0953-8984/16/48/016
Abstract
We find there are at least two different steady states for transport across noncollinear magnetic multilayers. In the conventional one there is a discontinuity in the spin current across the interfaces which has been identified as the source of current induced magnetic reversal; in the one advocated herein the spin torque arises from the spin accumulation transverse to the magnetization of a magnetic layer. These two states have quite different attributes which should be discerned by current experiments.
8 pages, no figure. Accepted for publication in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter