Temperature dependences of the spin transfer torque and tunneling magneto-resistance in magnetic metallic and tunneling junctions

Abstract

We investigate temperature dependences of the spin transfer torque (STT) and tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) in the magnetic metallic junction (MMJ) and magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ). The temperature dependences of the in-plane and out-of-plane STTs are calculated with the Keldysh non-equilibrium Green’s function method. We find that the temperature dependences of the in-plane and out-of-plane STTs for MTJ are strikingly deviated from the previous prediction [P. Bruno, Phys. Rev. B 52, 411 (1995)] for the interlayer exchange coupling, while ones for MMJ are well agreed with the prediction. Furthermore, the temperature dependences of the in-plane and out-of-plane STTs are varied with the bias voltage in different ways.