Mutual Synchronization of Antiferromagnetic Spintronic Oscillators

Abstract

Introduction. Recent studies into the properties of spintronic oscillators have led to broadening their scope of practical application as devices for generating and processing signals. The practical implementation of spintronic oscillators is, however, significantly limited by their low power capacity, thus requiring synchronization between devices.Aim. Determination of conditions for the implementation of the synchronous regime of two antiferromagnetic spintronic oscillators coupled by a common current.Materials and methods. To simplify the numerical simulation of a system of coupled resistively antiferromagnetic oscillators, the method of multiple-time-scale analysis was used. This allowed a system of Kuramoto equations to be considered instead of the original system. To determine the locking band of the Kuramoto model, the homoclinic trajectory approximation method was applied.Results. A system of Kuramoto equation for the phases of partial oscillators under the influence of the inertial term and phase shift was obtained. Expressions describing the locking and synchronization band as functions of the system parameters (bias currents and sizes) were derived. The numerically simulated Kuramoto model was used to determine the bands of the synchronous and asynchronous regimes.Conclusion. The results of numerical simulations of the system of Kuramoto equations and the Adler equation for two coupled spintronic oscillators agree well with the theoretically calculated values of locking and synchronization ranges. The scheme for reducing the model of antiferromagnetic oscillators to a Kuramoto model can be further extended to the case of a larger number of coupled oscillators, which will simplify computational experiments and significantly reduce the time required for numerical simulations.

Keywords

• synchronization
• locking band
• kuramoto model
• adler equation
• afm oscillator