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    Inverse Spin Hall Effect Driven by Spin Motive Force

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    The spin Hall effect is a phenomenon that an electric field induces a spin Hall current. In this Letter, we examine the inverse effect that, in a ferromagnetic conductor, a charge Hall current is induced by a spin motive force, or a spin-dependent effective ` electric' field Es{\bm E}_{\rm s}, arising from the time variation of magnetization texture. By considering skew-scattering and side-jump processes due to spin-orbit interaction at impurities, we obtain the Hall current density as σSHn×Es\sigma_{\rm SH} {\bm n}\times{\bm E}_{\rm s}, where n{\bm n} is the local spin direction and σSH\sigma_{\rm SH} is the spin Hall conductivity. The Hall angle due to the spin motive force is enhanced by a factor of P2P^{2} compared to the conventional anomalous Hall effect due to the ordinary electric field, where PP is the spin polarization of the current. The Hall voltage is estimated for a field-driven domain wall oscillation in a ferromagnetic nanowire.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, the title has been change

    Domain wall displacement triggered by an AC current below threshold

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    It is theoretically demonstrated that a displacement of a pinned domain wall, typically of order of μ\mum, can be driven by use of an ac current which is below threshold value. The point here is that finite motion around the pinning center by a low current is enhanced significantly by the resonance if the frequency is tuned close to the pinning frequency as demonstrated by recent experiment

    Spin Hall Current and Spin-transfer Torque in Ferromagnetic Metal

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    We theoretically examine the spin-transfer torque in the presence of spin-orbit interaction (SOI) at impurities in a ferromagnetic metal on the basis of linear response theory. We obtained, in addition to the usual spin-transfer torque, a new contributioin ∼jSH†⋅∇n\sim {\bm j}_{\rm SH}^{\phantom{\dagger}} \cdot \nabla {\bm n} in the first order in SOI, where jSH†{\bm j}_{\rm SH}^{\phantom{\dagger}} is the spin Hall current driven by an external electric field. This is a reaction to inverse spin Hall effect driven by spin motive force in a ferromagnet.Comment: 4 pages, Proceedings of the International Conference on Magnetism, submitted to J. Phys: Conference Serie
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