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Spin waves (SW) can induce rich domain wall (DW) motion in a perpendicular-magnetic anisotropy nanostrip. In-plane magnetization tilt angle resulting from the fluctuation of the effective field of the magnetization response in the DW region…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-07-07 Liang-Juan Chang , Yen-Fu Liu , Ming-Yi Kao , Li-Zai Tsai , Jun-Zhi Liang , Shang-Fan Lee

We investigated head-to-head domain walls in nanostrips of epitaxial $\mathrm{Fe}_4\mathrm{N}(001)$ thin films, displaying a fourfold magnetic anisotropy. Magnetic force microscopy and micromagnetic simulations show that the domain walls…

We present a model for current-driven motion of a magnetic domain-wall line, in which the dynamics of the domain wall is equivalent to that of an overdamped vortex line in an anisotropic pinning potential. This potential has both extrinsic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. A. Duine , C. Morais Smith

A model is introduced for the theoretical description of nanoscale magnetic films with high perpendicular anisotropy. In the model the magnetic film is described in terms of single domain magnetic grains, interacting via exchange as well as…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 U. Nowak

We present a line-based model of transverse domain walls in thin magnetic strips, to study the effect of bulk disorder on the domain wall dynamics within the thermally activated creep regime. The creep velocity is found to exhibit a…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-14 Lasse Laurson , Adil Mughal , Gianfranco Durin , Stefano Zapperi

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

We study the properties of domain walls and domain patterns in ultrathin epitaxial magnetic films with two orthogonal in-plane easy axes, which we call fourfold materials. In these materials, the magnetization vector is constrained to lie…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-13 Ross G. Lund , Cyrill B. Muratov

We have studied nucleation of magnetic domains and propagation of magnetic domain walls (DWs) induced by pulsed magnetic field in a ferromagnetic film with in-plane uniaxial anisotropy. Different from what have been seen up to now in…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-30 Xiaochao Zhou , Nicolas Vernier , Guillaume Agnus , Sylvain Eimer , Ya Zhai

Magnetization relaxation of exchange biased (Pt/Co)5/Pt/IrMn multilayers with perpendicular anisotropy was investigated by time-resolved Kerr microscopy. Magnetization reversal occurs by nucleation and domain wall propagation for both…

We investigate experimentally the effects of externally applied strain on the injection of 180$^\circ$ domain walls (DW) from a nucleation pad into magnetic nanowires, as typically used for DW-based sensors. In our study the strain,…

The ultrafast magnetic dynamics in compensated ferrimagnets not only provides information similar to antiferromagnetic dynamics, but more importantly opens new opportunities for future spintronic devices [Kim et al., Nat. Mater. 16, 1187…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 W. H. Li , Z. Jin , D. L. Wen , X. M. Zhang , M. H. Qin , J. M. Liu

We analyze the dynamics of a domain wall in an easy-axis antiferromagnet driven by circularly polarized magnons. Magnons pass through a stationary domain wall without reflection and thus exert no force on it. However, they reverse their…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-09-10 Se Kwon Kim , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Oleg Tchernyshyov

Using numerical and analytical micromagnetics we calculated the switching fields and energy barriers of the composite (exchange spring) magnetic recording media, which consist of layers with high and low magnetocrystalline anisotropy. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Yu. Dobin , H. J. Richter

The dynamics of magnetic domain walls along ferromagnetic strips with spatially modulated perpendicular magnetic anisotropy is theoretically studied by means of micromagnetic simulations. Ferromagnetic layers with a periodic sawtooth…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-06-19 Luis Sánchez-Tejerina , Óscar Alejos , Víctor Raposo , Eduardo Martínez

We investigate the formation of stable one-dimensional N\'eel walls in a ferromagnetic slab with finite thickness and finite width. Taking into account the dipolar, the exchange and the uniaxial anisotropic crystalline field interactions,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Rafael M. Fernandes , Harry Westfahl , Rogério Magalhães-Paniago , Leticia N. Coelho

We have investigated numerically the field-driven propagation of perpendicularly magnetized ferromagnetic layers. It was then compared to the historical one-dimensional domain wall (DW) propagation model widely used in spintronics studies…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-03-01 L. Thevenard , C. Gourdon , S. Haghgoo , J-P. Adam , H. J. von Bardeleben , A. Lemaître , W. Schoch , A. Thiaville

We theoretically and experimentally analyze the pinning of a magnetic domain wall (DW) at engineered anisotropy variations in Pt/Co/Pt strips with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. An analytical model is derived showing that a step in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-19 Jeroen H. Franken , Mark Hoeijmakers , Reinoud Lavrijsen , Henk J. M. Swagten

We theoretically study the current-induced dynamics of a transverse magnetic domain wall in bi-layer nanowires consisting of a ferromagnet on top of a nonmagnet having strong spin-orbit coupling. Domain wall dynamics is characterized by two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-18 Soo-Man Seo , Kyoung-Whan Kim , Jisu Ryu , Hyun-Woo Lee , Kyung-Jin Lee

Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) and dynamic magnetization reversal process in [CoFeB $t$ nm/Pd 1.0 nm]$_n$ ($t$ = 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 1.0, and 1.2 nm; $n$ = 2 - 20) multilayer films have been studied by means of magnetic hysteresis and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-14 Duc-The Ngo , Duy-Truong Quach , Quang-Hung Tran , Kristian Mølhave , The-Long Phan , Dong-Hyun Kim

We explore universal behaviors of magnetic domain wall driven by the spin-transfer of an electrical current, in a ferromagnetic (Ga,Mn)(As,P) thin film with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. For a current direction transverse to domain…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-12-04 R. Diaz Pardo , N. Moisan , L. Albornoz , A. Lemaitre , J. Curiale , V. Jeudy