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Magnetoelectronic Spin Echo

Year: 2003

Type: article

Abstract: We predict a spin echo in electron transport through layered ferromagnetic-normal-ferromagnetic metal structures: whereas a spin current polarized perpendicular to the magnetization direction decays when traversing a single homogeneous ferromagnet on the scale of the ferromagnetic spin-coherence length, it partially reappears by adding a second identical but antiparallel ferromagnet. This reentrant transverse spin current resembles the spin-echo effect in the magnetization of nuclei under pulsed excitations. We propose an experimental setup to measure the spin echo.

Source: Physical Review Letters

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.91.166601

Authors: Arne Brataas, Gergely Zaránd, Yaroslav Tserkovnyak, Gerrit E. W. Bauer

Institutions: Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Harvard University, Delft University of Technology

Language: English

Topic: Quantum and electron transport phenomena

Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2164266705

FWCI: 1.685

Cites: 27

Cited by: 17

Related to: 10