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Most of the existing researches on the dynamics of a domain wall (DW) have focused on the effect of DC biases, where the induced velocity is determined by the bias strength. Here we show that AC biases such as a field or a current are also…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-06 Duck-Ho Kim , Dong-Hyun Kim , Dae-Yun Kim , Sug-Bong Choe , Teruo Ono , Kyung-Jin Lee , Se Kwon Kim

Employing unbiased large-scale time-dependent density-matrix renormalization-group simulations, we demonstrate the generation of a charge-current vortex via spin injection in the Rashba system. The spin current is polarized perpendicular to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-16 Florian Lange , Satoshi Ejima , Junji Fujimoto , Tomonori Shirakawa , Holger Fehske , Seiji Yunoki , Sadamichi Maekawa

Orbital currents and accumulation provide a new avenue to boost spintronic effects in nanodevices. Here we use interconversion effects between charge current and orbital angular momentum to demonstrate a dramatic increase in the magnon spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-03 J. A. Mendoza-Rodarte , M. Cosset-Chéneau , B. J. van Wees , M. H. D. Guimarães

The spin Edelstein effect has proven to be a promising phenomenon to generate spin polarization from a charge current in systems without inversion symmetry. In recent years, a current-induced orbital magnetization, called orbital Edelstein…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Sergio Leiva M. , Jürgen Henk , Ingrid Mertig , Annika Johansson

We consider theoretically domain wall motion driven by spin-orbit and spin Hall torques. We find that it is possible to achieve universal absence of Walker breakdown for all spin-orbit torques using experimentally relevant spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-19 Vetle Risinggård , Jacob Linder

Perpendicularly magnetized materials have attracted tremendous interest due to their high anisotropy, which results in extremely narrow, nano-sized domain walls. As a result, the recently studied current-induced domain wall motion (CIDWM)…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-11 P. P. J. Haazen , E. Murè , J. H. Franken , R. Lavrijsen , H. J. M. Swagten , B. Koopmans

We study the ground-state properties of electrons confined to a quantum wire and subject to a smoothly modulated Rashba spin-orbit coupling. When the period of the modulation becomes commensurate with the band filling, the Rashba coupling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-28 G. I. Japaridze , Henrik Johannesson , Alvaro Ferraz

We explore the contributions of adiabatic and non-adiabatic spin-transfer torques (STT) of a spin-polarized current to the thermally activated creep motion of domain-walls in a thin (Ga,Mn)(As,P) film with perpendicular anisotropy. For a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 Lucas Javier Albornoz , Rebeca Díaz Pardo , Aristide Lemaître , Sebastian Bustingorry , Javier Curiale , Vincent Jeudy

Future applications of antiferromagnets (AFs) in many spintronics devices rely on the precise manipulation of domain walls. The conventional approach using static magnetic fields is inefficient due to the low susceptibility of AFs. Recently…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-03 Olena Gomonay , Mathias Kläui , Jairo Sinova

We investigated how the dynamics of a domain wall are affected by the presence of spin density waves in a ferromagnetic wire. Domain walls and other scattering centres can cause coherent spin density waves to propagate through a wire when a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-19 Nicholas Sedlmayr , Vitalii Dugaev , Jamal Berakdar

We demonstrate the possibility to drive an antiferromagnet domain-wall at high velocities by field-like N\'{e}el spin-orbit torques. Such torques arise from current-induced local fields that alternate their orientation on each sub-lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-06 O. Gomonay , T. Jungwirth , J. Sinova

Of the new types of cryoelectronic devices under development, including phase shifters, giant magnetoresistance switches, diodes, transistors, and memory cells, some are based on hybrid superconductor-normal metal or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-07 L. S. Uspenskaya , S. V. Egorov

Domain walls are the transition regions between two magnetic domains. These objects have been very relevant during the last decade, not only due to their intrinsic interest in the development of novel spintronics devices but also because of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 Oscar Alejos , Víctor Raposo , Eduardo Martínez

A domain wall in a ferromagnetic one-dimensional nanowire experiences current induced motion due to its coupling with the conduction electrons. When the current is not sufficient to drive the domain wall through the wire, or it is confined…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-13 Nicholas Sedlmayr , Jamal Berakdar

Use of a spin polarized current for the manipulation of magnetic domain walls in ferromagnetic nanowires has been the subject of intensive research for many years. Recently, due to technological advancements, creating nano-contacts with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-10 Hamidreza Kazemi , Sebastian Eggert , Nicholas Sedlmayr

We demonstrate how the Rashba spin-orbit coupling in semiconductor heterostructures can produce and control a spin-polarized current without ferromagnetic leads. Key idea is to use spin-double refraction of an electronic beam with a nonzero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Marigliano Ramaglia , D. Bercioux , V. Cataudella , G. De Filippis , C. A. Perroni

Based on the Keldysh formalism, the Boltzmann kinetic equation and the drift diffusion equation have been derived for studying spin polarization flow and spin accumulation under effect of the time dependent Rashba spin-orbit interaction in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. S. Tang , A. G. Mal'shukov , K. A. Chao

Current-driven domain wall (DW) motion in magnetic wires with asymmetric notches was investigated by means of magnetic force microscopy. It was found that the critical current density necessary for the current-driven DW motion depended on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Himeno , S. Kasai , T. Ono

Since its proposal, the idea to vastly increase data storage density with a magnetic non-volatile 3D shift-register has sustained interest in current-induced domain wall (DW) motion. So far, experimental efforts have focused on flat…

Vortices are point-like topological defects in superconductors whose motion dictates superconducting properties and controls device performance. In superconductor-ferromagnet heterostructures, vortices interact with topological defects in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-10-12 Sebastián A. Díaz , Jonas Nothhelfer , Kjetil M. D. Hals , Karin Everschor-Sitte