Linewidth reduction in a spin-torque nano-oscillator caused by non-conservative current-induced coupling between magnetic layers

We demonstrate by macrospin simulations that in a spin-torque nano-oscillator having synthetic antiferromagnet fixed layer, the non-conservative dynamic coupling between the free and fixed layers caused by spin-torque effect leads to a substantial reduction of the linewidth of the current-induced spin wave mode, involving oscillations in all three magnetic layers. By analysing the phase and amplitude noise extracted from the simulated signal, we prove that the obtained linewidth reduction is related to the reduction of the dimensionless non-linear amplitude-phase coupling parameter ν.

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