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Spin-Hall nanooscillator based on an antiferromagnetic domain wall

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2023-04-28 v3

Abstract

We propose here a high-frequency spin-Hall nano-oscillator based on a simple magnetic texture, such as a domain wall, located in an antiferromagnet with easy-axis anisotropy type. We show that the spin current, polarized along the anisotropy axis, excites a conical precession of the N\'eel vector in such a domain wall, which allows obtaining a robust ac output signal, -- contrary to the planar precession in an uniform uniaxial antiferromagnet, where ac output is hard to achieve. The frequency of the auto-oscillations is easily tunable by the applied current up to the THz range, and the threshold current vanishes for pure uniaxial antiferromagnet. By micro-magnetic simulations, we demonstrate that the pinning of the domain wall is crucial for the oscillator design, which can be achieved in nano-constriction layout of the free layer.

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@article{arxiv.2104.04780,
  title  = {Spin-Hall nanooscillator based on an antiferromagnetic domain wall},
  author = {Roman V. Ovcharov and Elena G. Galkina and Boris A. Ivanov and Roman S. Khymyn},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.04780},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

7 pages, 5 figures. Brief explanation of the dynamics near the threshold is added at P.3

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