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The domain wall motion along a helix-shaped nanowire is studied for the case of spin-current driving via Bazaliy-Zhang-Li mechanism. The analysis is based on collective variable approach. Two new effects are ascertained: (i) the curvature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Kostiantyn V. Yershov , Volodymyr P. Kravchuk , Denis D. Sheka , Yuri Gaididei

We predict the existence of anisotropic spin-transfer torque effect in textured altermagnets. To this end, we generalize the Zhang-Li torque to incorporate the symmetry associated with prototypical $d$-wave altermagnets and identify the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-30 Hamed Vakili , Edward Schwartz , Alexey A. Kovalev

Current-induced spin torque and magnetization dynamics in the presence of spin diffusion in magnetic textures is studied theoretically. We uncover an additional torque on the form \sim{\bm\nabla}^2[{\bf M}x({\bf u}\cdot{\bm \nabla}){\bf…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-18 A. Manchon , W. -S. Kim , K. -J. Lee

Electric current exerts torques-so-called spin transfer torques (STTs)-on magnetic domain walls (DWs), resulting in DW motion. At low current densities, the STTs should compete against disorders in ferromagnetic nanowires but the nature of…

Spins transverse to the magnetization of a ferromagnet only survives over a short distance. We develop a drift-diffusion approach that captures the main features of transverse spin effects in systems with arbitrary spin textures (vortices,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-29 Cyril Petitjean , David Luc , Xavier Waintal

In our numerical study, we identify the best conditions for efficient domain wall motion by spin-orbit torques originating from the Spin Hall effect or Rashba effect. We demonstrate that the effect depends critically on the domain wall…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-01-31 A. V. Khvalkovskiy , V. Cros , D. Apalkov , V. Nikitin , M. Krounbi , K. A. Zvezdin , A. Anane , J. Grollier , A. Fert

We present a theoretical study of the influence of magnetic viscosity on current-driven domain wall dynamics. In particular we examine how domain wall depinning transitions, driven by thermal activation, are influenced by the adiabatic and…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-29 Joo-Von Kim , Capucine Burrowes

We investigate current-driven domain wall (DW) propagation in magnetic nanowires in the framework of the modified Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation with both adiabatic and nonadiabatic spin torque (NAST) terms. Contrary to the common opinion…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-18 Z. Z. Sun , J. Schliemann , P. Yan , X. R. Wang

Current-induced spin-transfer torques (STTs) have been studied in Fe, Co and Ni domain walls (DWs) by the method based on the first-principles noncollinear calculations of scattering wave functions expanded in the tight-binding linearized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-02 Ling Tang , Zhijun Xu , Zejin Yang

Ferromagnetic domain walls -transitional regions between magnetic domains- are an essential ingredient for racetrack memory, a device concept that promises to deliver faster and more compact memory storage compared to other non-volatile…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 A. L. Bassant , Y. M. J. Ohlsen , M. Cherkasskii , P. B. He , R. A. Duine

The domain wall motion in a magnetic nanowire is examined theoretically in the regime where the domain wall driving force is weak and its competition against disorders is assisted by thermal agitations. Two types of driving forces are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-06 Jisu Ryu , Sug-Bong Choe , Hyun-Woo Lee

We study theoretically the spin wave emission from a moving domain wall in a ferromagnet. Introducing a deformation mode describing a modulation of the wall thickness in the collective coordinate description, we show that thickness…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Gen Tatara , Rubén M. Otxoa de Zuazola

We present a micromagnetic study of the current-induced domain wall motion in perpendicularly magnetized Pt/Co/AlOx racetracks. We show that the domain wall velocity depends critically on the tilt angle of the wall relative to the current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-27 Manuel Baumgartner , Pietro Gambardella

We derive an intrinsic contribution to the non-adiabatic spin torque for non-uniform magnetic textures. It differs from previously considered contributions in several ways and can be the dominant contribution in some models. It does not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-22 Kyoung-Whan Kim , Kyung-Jin Lee , Hyun-Woo Lee , M. D. Stiles

We study in detail the classical and quantum depinning of a domain wall (DW) induced by a fast-varying spin-polarized current. By confirming the adiabatic condition for calculating the spin-torque in fast-varying current case, we show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xin Liu , Xiong-Jun Liu , Zheng-Xin Liu

Efficient electrical manipulation of domain walls is key to developing magnetic devices with fast switching capabilities and low energy consumption. Here we demonstrate Bloch-type domain wall velocities exceeding 1 km s$^{-1}$ in the…

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

Using irreversible thermodynamics we show that current-induced spin transfer torque within a magnetic domain implies spin pumping of current within that domain. This has experimental implications for samples both with conducting leads and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Wayne M. Saslow

Spin-orbit torques (SOT) allow the electrical control of magnetic states. Current-induced SOT switching of the perpendicular magnetization is of particular technological importance. The SOT consists of damping-like and field-like torques so…

A consistent theory to describe the correlated dynamics of quantum mechanical itinerant spins and semiclassical local magnetization is given. We consider the itinerant spins as quantum mechanical operators, whereas local moments are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Jun-ichiro Kishine , A. S. Ovchinnikov