2009/12/12 by Tero T. Heikkila, Tero T. Heikkilä, Moosa Hatami +2
Physics and Astronomy · #Magnetic properties of thin films #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Quantum and electron transport phenomena #cond-mat.mes-hall
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.ssc.2009.12.015
published as Solid State Communications 150, 475 (2010). · Contribution to a Special Issue on Spin Caloritronics
openalex publication_date 2009/12/12 · arxiv created 2010/04/21 · arxiv updated 2010/04/22 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
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.