TY - JOUR
T1 - Electron-electron interaction induced spin thermalization in quasi-low-dimensional spin valves
AU - Heikkilä, Tero T.
AU - Hatami, Moosa
AU - Bauer, Gerrit E.W.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Academy of Finland, the Finnish Cultural Foundation, and NanoNed, a nanotechnology programme of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs. TTH acknowledges the hospitality of Delft University of Technology, where this work was initiated.
PY - 2010/3
Y1 - 2010/3
N2 - We study the spin thermalization, i.e., the inter-spin energy relaxation mediated by electron-electron scattering in small spin valves. When one or two of the dimensions of the spin valve spacer are smaller than the thermal coherence length, the direct spin energy exchange rate diverges and needs to be regularized by the sample dimensions. Here we consider two model systems: a long quasi-1D wire and a thin quasi-2D sheet.
AB - We study the spin thermalization, i.e., the inter-spin energy relaxation mediated by electron-electron scattering in small spin valves. When one or two of the dimensions of the spin valve spacer are smaller than the thermal coherence length, the direct spin energy exchange rate diverges and needs to be regularized by the sample dimensions. Here we consider two model systems: a long quasi-1D wire and a thin quasi-2D sheet.
KW - A. Magnetic films and multilayers
KW - D. Heat conduction
KW - D. Inter-spin heat exchange
KW - D. Thermoelectric effects
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ssc.2009.12.015
DO - 10.1016/j.ssc.2009.12.015
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77549088400
SN - 0038-1098
VL - 150
SP - 475
EP - 479
JO - Solid State Communications
JF - Solid State Communications
IS - 11-12
ER -