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Giant current-driven domain wall mobility in (Ga,Mn)As

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2015-06-25 v3 Materials Science

Abstract

We study theoretically hole current-driven domain wall dynamics in (Ga,Mn)As. We show that the spin-orbit coupling causes significant hole reflection at the domain wall, even in the adiabatic limit when the wall is much thicker than the Fermi wavelength, resulting in spin accumulation and mistracking between current-carrying spins and the domain wall magnetization. This increases the out-of-plane non-adiabatic spin transfer torque and consequently the current-driven domain wall mobility by three to four orders of magnitude. Trends and magnitude of the calculated domain wall current mobilities agree with experimental findings.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0606498,
  title  = {Giant current-driven domain wall mobility in (Ga,Mn)As},
  author = {Anh Kiet Nguyen and Hans Joakim Skadsem and Arne Brataas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0606498},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Final version accepted by Physical Review Letters

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