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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

Difference in density of states for the spin's majority and minority bands in a ferromagnet changes the electrostatic potential along the domains, introducing the discontinuities of the potential at domain boundaries. The value of…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Dzero , L. P. Gor'kov , A. K. Zvezdin , K. A. Zvezdin

Within linear continuum theory, no magnetic texture can propagate faster than the maximum group velocity of its spin waves. Here we report a transient regime due to the appearance of additional antiferromagnetic textures that breaks the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-10 Rubén M. Otxoa , P. E. Roy , R. Rama-Eiroa , K. Y. Giuslienko , J. Wunderlich

The control of domain walls or spin textures is crucial for spintronic applications of antiferromagnets. Despite many efforts, it has been challenging to directly visualize antiferromagnetic domains or domain walls with nanoscale…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-03-06 Paul M. Sass , Wenbo Ge , Jiaqiang Yan , D. Obeysekera , J. J Yang , Weida Wu

A self-contained theory of the domain wall dynamics in ferromagnets under finite electric current is presented. The current is shown to have two effects; one is momentum transfer, which is proportional to the charge current and wall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Gen Tatara , Hiroshi Kohno

We theoretically investigate emergent impedance induced by domain-wall dynamics in antiferromagnets. Emergent impedance, arising from a combined action of spin-transfer torque and spinmotive force, was previously predicted and observed in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Yuta Yamane , Jotaro J. Nakane , Yasufumi Araki , Jun'ichi Ieda

The magnetoresistance (MR) associated with domain boundaries has been investigated in microfabricated bcc Fe (0.65 to 20 $\mu$m linewidth) wires with controlled stripe domains. Domain configurations have been characterized using magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. D. Kent , U. Ruediger , J. Yu , S. Zhang , P. M. Levy , Y. Zhong , S. S. P. Parkin

Spin wave and magnetic domain wall are two of basic excitations in magnetic systems, and their spatiotemporal interplay encodes rich information of underlying magnetic interactions. In synthetic antiferromagnets, the domain wall acquires an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Jin Lan , Yang Zhang

We investigate how domain structure of the ferromagnet in superconductor-ferromagnet heterostructures may change their transport properties. We calculate the distribution of current in the superconductor induced by magnetic field of Bloch…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. S. Burmistrov , N. M. Chtchelkatchev

We discover that the way spin-waves exert magnetic torques in multiferroic materials can cause not only domain wall motion, but also magnetization dynamics for homogeneous magnetization textures. Interestingly, the domain wall motion can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-03 Iryna Kulagina , Jacob Linder

The influence of the curvature on the dynamical properties of transversal domain walls in a thin antiferromagnetic wire is studied theoretically. Equations of motion for antiferromagnetic domain wall are obtained within the collective…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-02-16 Kostiantyn V. Yershov

Domain wall (DW) dynamics in antiferromagnetic (AFM) systems offer the advantages over their ferromagnetic counterparts of having faster and more energy efficient manipulation due to the absence of net magnetization, leading to reduced…

The effective spin pressure induced by an electric current on a domain wall in a ferromagnet is determined using a simple classical model, which allows us to extend previous theories to arbitrary domain wall widths. In particular, the role…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 A. Vanhaverbeke , M. Viret

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

Domain wall dynamics in a magnetoelectric antiferromagnet is analyzed, and its implications for magnetoelectric memory applications are discussed. Cr$_2$O$_3$ is used in the estimates of the materials parameters. It is found that the domain…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-04-05 K. D. Belashchenko , O. Tchernyshyov , Alexey A. Kovalev , O. A. Tretiakov

Current-induced magnetic domain wall motion at zero magnetic field is observed in the permalloy layer of a spin-valve-based nanostripe using photoemission electron microscopy. The domain wall movement is hampered by pinning sites, but in…

The spin-transfer torque motion of magnetic domain walls (DWs) in a CoB/Ni-based nanowire driven by a low current density of (1.12\pm0.8)\times10^{11} A m^{-2} has been observed indirectly by magnetotransport measurements. A high DW…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-08-29 Duc-The Ngo , Norihito Watanabe , Hiroyuki Awano

Magnetotransport measurements on small single crystals of Cr, the elemental antiferromagnet, reveal the hysteretic thermodynamics of the domain structure. The temperature dependence of the transport coefficients is directly correlated with…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 R. Jaramillo , T. F. Rosenbaum , E. D. Isaacs , O. G. Shpyrko , P. G. Evans , G. Aeppli , Z. Cai

We numerically compute current-induced spin-transfer torques for antiferromagnetic domain walls, based on a linear response theory in a tight-binding model. We find that, unlike for ferromagnetic domain wall motion, the contribution of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-24 Hyeon-Jong Park , Yunboo Jeong , Se-Hyeok Oh , Gyungchoon Go , Jung Hyun Oh , Kyoung-Whan Kim , Hyun-Woo Lee , Kyung-Jin Lee

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