Terminal Velocity Motion Model Used to Analyze the Mutual Phase-locking of STNOs

Abstract: Using Legendre transformation, a standard theoretical approach extensively used in classical mechanics as well as thermal dynamics, two-dimensional non-linear auto-oscillators including spin torque nano-oscillators (STNOs) can be equivalently expressed either in phase space or in configuration space where all of them can be modeled by terminal velocity motion (TVM) particles. The transformation completely preserves the dynamic information about the canonical momenta, leading to very precise analytical predictions about the phase-locking of a coupled pair of perpendicular to plane STNOs (PERP-STNOs) including dynamical phase diagrams, (un)phase-locked frequencies, phase-locked angles, and transient evolutions, which are all solved based on Newton mechanics. Notably, the TVM model successfully solves the difficulty of the generalized pendulum-like model [Chen \textit{et al}. \textbf{J. Appl. Phys. 130}, 043904 (2021)] failing to make precise predictions for the higher range of current in serial connection. Additionally, how to simply search for the critical currents for phase-locked (PL) and asynchronized (AS) states by numerically simulating the macrospin as well as TVM model, which gets inspired through analyzing the excitations of a forced pendulum, is also supplied here. Therefore, we believe that the TVM model can bring a more intuitive and precise way to explore all types of two-dimensional non-linear auto-oscillators.