An analytical approach is presented for the study of magnetization dynamics driven by spin-polarized currents. Two cases are considered: (i) magnetic layers with in-plane uniaxial anisotropy; (ii) magnetic layers with uniaxial anisotropy and applied field perpendicular to the layer plane....

The tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) of a small magnetic dot array with perpendicular anisotropy, is studied by using a resistor network model. Because of the competition between dipolar interaction and perpendicular anisotropy, the TMR ratio can be up to a maximum value (~26%) as predicted by...

Based on Monte Carlo simulation, the spin configurations, thermal magnetization and hysteresis loops of the clusters coated by the surface shell with radial anisotropy are studied. Interestingly, a new multidomain containing a few of subdomains whose easy directions are along those of the...

The density of the transmission eigenvalues of Pb nano-contacts has been estimated recently in mechanically controllable break-junction experiments. Motivated by these experimental analyses, here we study the evolution of the density of the transmission eigenvalues with the disorder strength and...

We study quantum entanglement in a single-level quantum dot in the linear-response regime. The results show, that the maximal quantum value of the conductance 2e<Superscript>2</Superscript>/h not always match the maximal entanglement. The pairwise entanglement between the quantum dot and the nearest atom of the lead is...</superscript>

This paper addresses in a concise and rigorous way the basic tools for the study of local longitudinal and transverse microscopic currents in two-dimensional devices. The emphasis is on the optimized use of the Keldysh nonequilibrium Green's function theory together with the tight-binding...