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| author | Sala, Giacomo Meyer, Jan Flechsig, Anne Gabriel, Laura Gambardella, Pietro |
| author_facet | Sala, Giacomo Meyer, Jan Flechsig, Anne Gabriel, Laura Gambardella, Pietro |
| contents | We study the incubation and transition times that characterize the magnetization switching induced by spin-orbit torques in nanomagnets with perpendicular anisotropy. We present a phenomenological model to interpret the dependence of the incubation time on the amplitude of the voltage pulse and assisting magnetic field and estimate the volume of the seed domain that triggers the switching. Our measurements evidence a correlation between the incubation and transition times that is mediated by the temperature variation during the electric pulse. In addition, we discuss the stochastic distributions of the two times in terms of the energy barriers opposing the nucleation and expansion of the seed domain. We propose two models based on the log-normal and gamma functions to account for the different origin of the variability of the incubation and transition times, which are associated with a single nucleation barrier and multiple pinning sites, respectively. |
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| spellingShingle | Deterministic and stochastic aspects of current-induced magnetization reversal in perpendicular nanomagnets Sala, Giacomo Meyer, Jan Flechsig, Anne Gabriel, Laura Gambardella, Pietro Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics We study the incubation and transition times that characterize the magnetization switching induced by spin-orbit torques in nanomagnets with perpendicular anisotropy. We present a phenomenological model to interpret the dependence of the incubation time on the amplitude of the voltage pulse and assisting magnetic field and estimate the volume of the seed domain that triggers the switching. Our measurements evidence a correlation between the incubation and transition times that is mediated by the temperature variation during the electric pulse. In addition, we discuss the stochastic distributions of the two times in terms of the energy barriers opposing the nucleation and expansion of the seed domain. We propose two models based on the log-normal and gamma functions to account for the different origin of the variability of the incubation and transition times, which are associated with a single nucleation barrier and multiple pinning sites, respectively. |
| title | Deterministic and stochastic aspects of current-induced magnetization reversal in perpendicular nanomagnets |
| topic | Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.05704 |