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Paul Noël1, Richard Schlitz1, Emir Karadža1
1ETH Zurich, Department of Materials, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland.
Abstract:
Charge-spin conversion phenomena, such as the spin Hall effect, allow for the excitation of magnons in a magnetic layer by passing an electric current in an adjacent nonmagnetic conductor. We demonstrate that this current-induced modification of the magnon density generates an additional nonlinear longitudinal and transverse magnetoresistance for every magnetoresistance that depends on the magnetization. Using harmonic measurements, we evidence that these magnon creation-annihilation magnetoresistances dominate the second harmonic longitudinal and transverse resistance of thin Y_{3}Fe_{5}O_{12}/Pt bilayers. Our results apply to both insulating and metallic magnetic layers, elucidating the dependence of the magnetoresistance on applied current and magnetic field for a broad variety of systems excited by spin currents.
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