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We consider the spin torque induced by a current flowing ballistically through a magnetic domain wall. In addition to a global pressure in the direction of the electronic flow, the torque has an internal structure of comparable magnitude…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Xavier Waintal , Michel Viret

By means of local ion implantation, we investigated the influence of lateral interface on current-induced magnetic switching by spin-orbit torque in a perpendicularly magnetized Pt/Co/Ta multilayer. The experimental results show that, in…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Yanru Li , Meiyin Yang , Guoqiang Yu , Baoshan Cui , Jun Luo

The Rashba-Edelstein effect stems from the interaction between the electron's spin and its momentum induced by spin-orbit interaction at an interface or a surface. It was shown that the inverse Rashba-Edelstein effect can be used to convert…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-27 M. B. Jungfleisch , W. Zhang , J. Sklenar , W. Jiang , J. E. Pearson , J. B. Ketterson , A. Hoffmann

We have studied current-driven domain wall motion in modified Ga_0.95Mn_0.05As Hall bar structures with perpendicular anisotropy by using spatially resolved Polar Magneto-Optical Kerr Effect Microscopy and micromagnetic simulation.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Y. Wang , A. C. Irvine , R. P. Campion , C. T. Foxon , J. Wunderlich , D. A. Williams , B. L. Gallagher

We show that the interaction between a superconducting order parameter and the magnetic moment of an atomic cluster in a two-dimensional s-wave superconductor with Rashba spin-orbit coupling generates magnetic anisotropy that can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-24 Eugene M. Chudnovsky

Current induced domain wall (DW) motion in perpendicularly magnetized nanostripes in the presence of spin orbit torques is studied. We show using micromagnetic simulations that the direction of the current induced DW motion and the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-17 O. Boulle , L. D. Buda-Prejbeanu , E. Jué , I. M. Miron , G. Gaudin

Current driven domain wall motion in curved Heavy Metal/Ferrimagnetic/Oxide multilayer strips is investigated using systematic micromagnetic simulations which account for spin-orbit coupling phenomena. Domain wall velocity and…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-25 David Osuna Ruiz , Óscar Alejos , Víctor Raposo , Eduardo Martínez

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Anh Kiet Nguyen , Hans Joakim Skadsem , Arne Brataas

We consider the effect of the Rashba spin-orbital interaction and space charge in a ferromagnet-insulator/semiconductor/insulator-ferromagnet junction where the spin current is severely affected by the doping, band structure and charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Wei Wu , Jinbin Li , Yue Yu , S. T. Chui

Recent studies have predicted extraordinary properties for transverse domain walls in cylindrical nanowires: zero depinning current, the absence of the Walker breakdown, and applications as domain wall oscillators. In order to reliably…

The generation of large spin currents, and the associated spin torques, which are at the heart of modern spintronics, have long been achieved by charge-to-spin conversion mechanisms, i.e. the spin Hall effect and/or the Rashba effect,…

The shape instability of magnetic domain walls under current is investigated in a ferromagnetic (Ga,Mn)(As,P) film with perpendicular anisotropy. Domain wall motion is driven by the spin transfer torque mechanism. A current density gradient…

In this paper, we study the domain wall motion induced by vertical current flow in asymmetric magnetic tunnel junctions. The domain wall motion in the free layer is mainly dictated by the current-induced field-like torque acting on it. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 S. Liu , D. J. P. de Sousa , M. Sammon , J. P. Wang , Tony Low

Microscopic theory of domain wall dynamics under electric current is reviewed. Domain wall is treated as rigid and planar. The spin-transfer torque and forces on the wall are derived based on the $s$-$d$ exchange interaction between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Gen Tatara , Hiroshi Kohno , Junya Shibata

Motivated by recent experimental studies of thin-film devices containing a single ferromagnetic layer, we develop a quantum kinetic theory of current-induced magnetic torques in Rashba-model ferromagnets. We find that current-induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 D. A. Pesin , A. H. MacDonald

Memory and logic devices that encode information in magnetic domains rely on the controlled injection of domain walls to reach their full potential. In this work, we exploit the chiral coupling induced by the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-27 T. Phuong Dao , Marvin Müller , Zhaochu Luo , Manuel Baumgartner , Aleš Hrabec , Laura J. Heyderman , Pietro Gambardella

A Rashba nanowire is subjected to a magnetic field that assumes opposite signs in two sections of the nanowire, and, thus, creates a magnetic domain wall. The direction of magnetic field is chosen to be perpendicular to the Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Flavio Ronetti , Kirill Plekhanov , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

Domain-wall bimerons are composite topological structures formed by embedding bimerons within domain walls in ferromagnets with in-plane anisotropy. These hybrid textures have recently attracted significant attention due to their promise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-05 Jiwen Chen , Laichuan Shen , Yan Zhou , Oleg A. Tretiakov , Xiaoguang Li

The dynamics of transverse Neel domain wall in a ferromagnetic nanostrip in the presence of driving field, current and transverse magnetic field is investigated by the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert(LLG) equation with the adiabatic and…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-19 R. Arun , P. Sabareesan , M. Daniel

We develop a theory of designing slit experiments in two-dimensional electron systems with the Rashba spin-orbit interaction. By simulating the spatiotemporal dynamics of electrons passing through a single slit or a double slit, we find…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Kotaro Shimizu , Masahito Mochizuki