Abstract
We demonstrate that interfacial disorder in magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) has a dramatic effect on the bias behavior of both spin-transfer and field-like spin torques, leading to strong enhancement, sign reversal, and bias asymmetry. The underlying mechanism lies on the impurity-induced resonance energies, which can be selectively controlled with alloying and/or bias. The predictions explain for the first time the experimental results in ``dirty'' junctions and have important implications on exploiting further the alloying effect to optimize the current-induced magnetization switching.
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