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Different steady states for spin currents in noncollinear multilayers

Peter M Levy, Jianwei Zhang

cond-mat.mes-hallarXiv:cond-mat/0405613

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.

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