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Magnetic Domain Wall Floating on a Spin Superfluid

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2017-03-08 v1

Abstract

We theoretically investigate the transfer of angular momentum between a spin superfluid and a domain wall in an exchange coupled easy-axis and easy-plane magnetic insulator system. A domain wall in the easy-axis magnet absorbs spin angular momentum via disrupting the flow of a superfluid spin current in the easy-plane magnet. Focusing on an open geometry, where the spin current is injected electrically via a nonequilibrium spin accumulation, we derive analytical expressions for the resultant superfluid-mediated motion of the domain wall. The analytical results are supported by micromagnetic simulations. The proposed phenomenon extends the regime of magnon-driven domain-wall motion to the case when the magnons are condensed and exhibit superfluidity. Furthermore, by controlling the pinning of the domain wall, we propose a realization of a reconfigurable spin transistor. The long-distance dissipationless character of spin superfluids can thus be exploited for manipulating soliton-based memory and logic devices.

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@article{arxiv.1608.00683,
  title  = {Magnetic Domain Wall Floating on a Spin Superfluid},
  author = {Pramey Upadhyaya and Se Kwon Kim and Yaroslav Tserkovnyak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.00683},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

5 pages, 3 figures, supplementary

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