Current induced transverse spin-wave instability in thin ferromagnets: beyond linear stability analysis
arXiv:cond-mat/0508732 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.73.024425
Abstract
A sufficiently large unpolarized current can cause a spin-wave instability in thin nanomagnets with asymmetric contacts. The dynamics beyond the instability is understood in the perturbative regime of small spin-wave amplitudes, as well as by numerically solving a discretized model. In the absence of an applied magnetic field, our numerical simulations reveal a hierarchy of instabilities, leading to chaotic magnetization dynamics for the largest current densities we consider.
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