The steady state in noncollinear magnetic multilayers

Jianwei Zhang, Peter M Levy

Published 2004-05-26Version 1

There are at least two different putative steady state solutions for current across noncollinear magnetic multilayers; one has a discontinuity in the spin current at the interface the other is continuous. We compare the resistance of the two and find the solution with the continuous spin currents is lower. By using the entropic principle we can state that this solution is a better estimate of the resistance for a noncollinear magnetic