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An exact solution is derived for the wave function of an electron in a semiconductor quantum wire with spin-orbit interaction and driven by external time dependent harmonic confining potential. The formalism allows analytical expressions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 T. Cadez , J. H. Jefferson , A. Ramsak

Starting from the stochastic Landau-Lifschitz-Gilbert equation, we derive Langevin equations that describe the nonzero-temperature dynamics of a rigid domain wall. We derive an expression for the average drift velocity of the domain wall as…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 R. A. Duine , A. S. Nunez , A. H. MacDonald

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 investigate theoretically the motion of chiral N\'eel domain walls in perpendicularly magnetized systems driven by in-plane strain gradients. We show that such strain drives domain walls efficiently towards increasing tensile…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-12-01 Mouad Fattouhi , Felipe Garcia-Sanchez , Rocio Yanes , Victor Raposo , Eduardo Martinez , Luis Lopez-Diaz

We study the domain wall motion in a disordered weak ferromagnet, induced by injecting a spin current from a strong ferromagnet. Starting from the spin diffusion equation describing the spin accumulation in the weak ferromagnet, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-29 Faluke Aikebaier , Tero T. Heikkilä

We examine theoretically the role of spin-waves on current-induced domain wall dynamics in a ferromagnetic wire. At room temperature, we find that an interaction between the domain wall and the spin waves appears when there is a finite…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Yann Le Maho , Joo Von Kim , Gen Tatara

The motion of domain walls in ferromagnetic, cylindrical nanowires is investigated numerically by solving the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation for a classical spin model in which energy contributions from exchange, crystalline anisotropy,…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Wieser , U. Nowak , K. D. Usadel

Spin-orbit torques promise ultra-efficient magnetization switching used for advanced devices based on emergent quasi-particles such as domain walls and skyrmions. Recently, the spin structure dynamics, materials and systems with tailored…

Charge resistance and spin torque are generated by coherent carrier transport through ferromagnetic 360 degree domain walls, although they follow qualitatively different trends than for 180 degree domain walls. The charge resistance of 360…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-22 E. A. Golovatski , M. E. Flatté

We theoretically study the current-driven domain wall motion in the presence of both the spin Hall effect and an extrinsic pinning potential. The spin Hall effect mainly affects the damping ratio of the domain wall precession in the pinning…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-02 Jisu Ryu , Kyung-Jin Lee , Hyun-Woo Lee

The dynamics of the domain wall (DW) in a biaxial ferromagnet interacting with a spin-polarized current are described by sine-gordon (SG) equation coupled with Gilbert damping term in this paper. Within our frame-work of this model, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-09 Xin Liu , Xiong-Jun Liu , Mo-Lin Ge

The pinning and depinning of antiferromagnetic (AFM) domain wall is certainly the core issue of AFM spintronics. In this work, we study theoretically the N\'eel-type domain wall pinning and depinning at a notch in an antiferromagnetic (AFM)…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 Z. Y. Chen , M. H. Qin , J. M. Liu

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

We present a theory of the current-voltage characteristics of a magnetic domain wall between two highly spin-polarized materials, which takes into account the effect of the electrical bias on the spin-flip probability of an electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 M. Deutsch , G. Vignale , M. E. Flatte'

The aim of this paper is to present a comprehensive theory of spintronics phenomena based on the concept of effective gauge field, the spin gauge field. An effective gauge field generally arises when we change a basis to describe system and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-04 Gen Tatara

This review describes in detail the essential techniques used in microscopic theories on spintronics. We have investigated the domain wall dynamics induced by electric current based on the $s$-$d$ exchange model. The domain wall is treated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-07 Gen Tatara , Hiroshi Kohno , Junya Shibata

We compute the power spectrum of the noise in the current due to spin motive forces by a fluctuating domain wall. We find that the power spectrum of the noise in the current is colored, and depends on the Gilbert damping, the spin transfer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 M. E. Lucassen , R. A. Duine

Non-adiabatic correction to spin transfer torque arising from fast-varying spin texture is calculated treating conduction electron fully quantum mechanically. The torque is non-local in space, and is shown to equivalent to a force (due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Gen Tatara , Hiroshi Kohno , Junya Shibata , Yann Lemaho , Kyung-Jin Lee

We consider current-induced domain wall motion and, the reciprocal process, moving domain wall-induced current. The associated Onsager coefficients are expressed in terms of scattering matrices. Uncommonly, in (Ga,Mn)As, the effective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-29 Kjetil M. D Hals , Anh Kiet Nguyen , Arne Brataas

A domain wall separating two oppositely magnetized regions in a ferromagnetic semiconductor exhibits, under appropriate conditions, strongly nonlinear I-V characteristics similar to those of a p-n diode. We study these characteristics as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Vignale , M. E. Flatte'