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Domain wall displacement by remote spin-current injection

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2014-10-28 v2 Other Condensed Matter

Abstract

We demonstrate numerically the ability to displace a magnetic domain wall by a remote spin current injection. We consider a long and narrow magnetic nanostripe with a single domain wall (DW). The spin-polarized current is injected perpendicularly to the plane of the film (CPP) through a small nanocontact which is located at certain distance from the domain wall initial position. We show theoretically that the DW motion can be initiated not only by conventional spin-transfer torque but also by indirect spin-torque, created by a remote spin-current injection and then transferred to the DW by the exchange-spring mechanism. An analytical description of this effect is proposed. This finding may lead to a solution of bottleneck problems of DW motion-based spintronic and neuromorphic devices with perpendicular spin-current injection.

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@article{arxiv.1311.0229,
  title  = {Domain wall displacement by remote spin-current injection},
  author = {Petr N. Skirdkov and Konstantin A. Zvezdin and Anatoly D. Belanovsky and Julie Grollier and Vincent Cros and Caroline A. Ross and Anatoly K. Zvezdin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.0229},
  year   = {2014}
}

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6 pages, 4 figures

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