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Clues on the Development of Magnetic Sensors with Pure Spin Current

By Osaka University | December 16, 2015

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“Spintronics” is a new class of electronics where charge and spin are utilized. A pure spin current, flow of spin without charge current, is one of the important physical quantities in its field, which could play an essential role in low energy consumption electronics of the next generation.A group of researchers in Japan and France succeeded in detecting magnetic fluctuations with pure spin current in a much more sensitive way than conventional magnetization measurements. 

Electrons have two degrees of freedom, or attributes: charge and spin. With the development of microfabrication technology in recent years, through the active combination of these two attributes, it has become possible to create devices that are head and shoulders above electronics of the past. This field of study has been called “spintronics,” and some notable achievements in the field include the magnetic head of hard disk drives and magnetic random access memory (MRAM). The 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for the discovery of giant magnetoresistance effect, which is the source of spintronics.

Understanding spin-dependent transport properties is at the heart of spintronics. A pure spin current, flow of spin angular momentum without charge current, is one of the important physical quantities in the field of spintronics, because it could play an essential role in low energy consumption electronics of the next generation. On the other hand, the pure spin current should also probe some spin properties in a sensitive way since there is no net charge current, but it has not been utilized for such fundamental research so far.

A group of researchers from Osaka University, The University of Tokyo, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Université Paris-Sud, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, and RIKEN reported that magnetic fluctuations can be detected with pure spin current. To investigate such magnetic fluctuations, spin glass was chosen. The spin glass is a typical frustrated system where a small amount of impurities with magnetic moments is randomly distributed in a nonmagnetic host metal. At high temperatures, the magnetic moments are fluctuating with a very high speed. As the temperature approaches the spin glass temperature Tg, the fluctuations become slower and then the magnetic moments are frozen at Tg. This has been well studied in many spin glass systems with magnetization measurements.

In this research, the pure spin current was injected into a spin glass system (CuMnBi alloy). An anomaly was observed far above Tg. This result indicates that pure spin current can detect fluctuating magnetic moments in a much more sensitive way than conventional magnetization measurements. In the near future, magnetic sensors with pure spin current would be developed and replace the superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID).


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