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Thermal Spin Waves from Accelerating Domain Walls via the Unruh Effect

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2025-12-15 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We consider a wire consisting of a conducting ferromagnetic layer and an insulating antiferromagnetic layer that are coupled. The ferromagnet hosts a domain wall, which is dynamically driven by a charge current. We show that for a specific time-dependent current, the domain wall moves according to a Rindler trajectory. This motion excites spin waves in the antiferromagnetic insulator, and their emission spectrum is characterised by an effective temperature analogous to the Unruh temperature, TU=a/2πckBT_U = \hbar a/2\pi c k_B, with a the acceleration of the domain wall, c the maximum antiferromagnetic spin wave velocity, and kB the Boltzmann constant. This thermal signature is a direct consequence of the Unruh effect and could be experimentally observed. Our results establish magnetism as a promising platform for probing relativistic quantum field phenomena. Moreover, since the Unruh effect is inherently linked to entanglement, our proposal provides a route for entangling magnetic domain walls via relativistic effects.

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@article{arxiv.2512.11387,
  title  = {Thermal Spin Waves from Accelerating Domain Walls via the Unruh Effect},
  author = {A. L. Bassant and R. A. Duine},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.11387},
  year   = {2025}
}

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12 pages, 4 figures