Giordano A, Verba R, Zivieri R, Laudani A, Puliafito V, Gubbiotti G, Tomasello R, Siracusano G, Azzerboni B, Carpentieri M, Slavin A, Finocchio G
Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Physical Sciences and Earth Sciences, University of Messina, Messina, Italy.
Institute of Magnetism, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Sci Rep. 2016 Oct 27;6:36020. doi: 10.1038/srep36020.
Spin-Hall oscillators (SHO) are promising sources of spin-wave signals for magnonics applications, and can serve as building blocks for magnonic logic in ultralow power computation devices. Thin magnetic layers used as "free" layers in SHO are in contact with heavy metals having large spin-orbital interaction, and, therefore, could be subject to the spin-Hall effect (SHE) and the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (i-DMI), which may lead to the nonreciprocity of the excited spin waves and other unusual effects. Here, we analytically and micromagnetically study magnetization dynamics excited in an SHO with oblique magnetization when the SHE and i-DMI act simultaneously. Our key results are: (i) excitation of nonreciprocal spin-waves propagating perpendicularly to the in-plane projection of the static magnetization; (ii) skyrmions generation by pure spin-current; (iii) excitation of a new spin-wave mode with a spiral spatial profile originating from a gyrotropic rotation of a dynamical skyrmion. These results demonstrate that SHOs can be used as generators of magnetic skyrmions and different types of propagating spin-waves for magnetic data storage and signal processing applications.
自旋霍尔振荡器(SHO)是用于磁子学应用的很有前景的自旋波信号源,并且可以作为超低功耗计算设备中磁子逻辑的构建模块。在SHO中用作“自由”层的薄磁层与具有大自旋轨道相互作用的重金属接触,因此,可能会受到自旋霍尔效应(SHE)和界面Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya相互作用(i-DMI)的影响,这可能会导致激发的自旋波的非互易性和其他异常效应。在这里,我们通过解析和微磁学方法研究了在SHE和i-DMI同时作用下,具有倾斜磁化的SHO中激发的磁化动力学。我们的主要结果是:(i)激发垂直于静态磁化的面内投影传播的非互易自旋波;(ii)通过纯自旋电流产生斯格明子;(iii)激发一种新的具有螺旋空间分布的自旋波模式,该模式源于动态斯格明子的回转旋转。这些结果表明,SHO可以用作磁斯格明子和不同类型的传播自旋波的发生器,用于磁数据存储和信号处理应用。