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Nanoscale self-localized topological spin textures, such as domain walls and skyrmions, are of interest for the fundamental physics of magnets and spintronics applications. Ferrimagnets (FiMs), in the region close to the angular momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-29 R. V. Ovcharov , B. A. Ivanov , E. G. Galkina , J. Åkerman , R. S. Khymyn

We have studied the current-induced displacement of a domain wall (DW) in the permalloy (Py) layer of a Co/Cu/Py spin valve structure at zero and very small applied field. The displacement is in opposite direction for opposite dc currents,…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Grollier , P. Boulenc , V. Cros , A. Hamzic , A. Vaures , A. Fert , G. Faini

We investigate the effect of curvature on the energy and stability of domain wall configurations in curved cylindrical nanotubes and nanowires. We use micromagnetic simulations to calculate the phase diagram for the transverse wall (TW) and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-22 L. Skoric , C. Donnelly , C. Abert , A. Hierro-Rodriguez , D. Suess , A. Fernández-Pacheco

The purpose of the research is the construction of the analytical model for description of spin-polarized current-driven ferromagnetic domain wall motion with a skyrmion building block. The dependence of velocity of ferromagnetic domain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-30 O. Gorobets , Yu. Gorobets , I. Tiukavkina , R. Gerasimenko

Using transmission electron microscopy, we investigate the thermally activated motion of domain walls (DWs) between two positions in permalloy (Ni80Fe20) nanowires at room temperature. We show that this purely thermal motion is well…

In this paper, we study the domain wall motion induced by vertical current flow in asymmetric magnetic tunnel junctions. The domain wall motion in the free layer is mainly dictated by the current-induced field-like torque acting on it. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 S. Liu , D. J. P. de Sousa , M. Sammon , J. P. Wang , Tony Low

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

Racetrack memory based on magnetic domain walls (DWs) motion exhibits advantages of small volume and high reading speed. When compared to current-induced DW motion, voltage-induced DW motion exhibits lower dissipation. On the other hand,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Fa Chen , Zhendong Zhang , Wei Luo , Xiaofei Yang , Long You , Yue Zhang

We investigate a magnetic domain-wall (DW) motion in two dynamic regimes, creep and flow regimes, near the angular momentum compensation temperature (T_A) of ferrimagnet. In the flow regime, the DW speed shows sharp increase at T_A due to…

Interfacial ferroelectricity offers a promising platform for ultrafast, low-power memory devices. While previous studies have demonstrated the importance of domain wall in polarization switching, the coexistence of various domain wall types…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-24 Hao-Wen Xu , Wen-Cheng Fan , Jun-Ding Zheng , Cheng-Shi Yao , Ni Zhong , Wen-Yi Tong , Chun-Gang Duan

Theoretical studies dealing with current-driven domain wall dynamics in ferrimagnetic alloys and, by extension, other antiferromagnetically coupled systems as some multilayers, are here presented. The analysis has been made by means of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-07-16 Eduardo Martínez , Víctor Raposo , Óscar Alejos

Current-induced domain-wall motion with velocity spanning over five orders of magnitude up to 22 m/s has been observed by magneto-optical Kerr effect in (Ga,Mn)As with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. The data are employed to verify…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-01-13 M. Yamanouchi , D. Chiba , F. Matsukura , T. Dietl , H. Ohno

Controlling domain wall motion is important due to the impact on the viability of proposed nanowire devices. One hurdle is slow domain wall speed when driven by fields greater than the Walker field, due to nucleation of vortices in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Andrew Kunz , Sarah C. Reiff

We propose an effect whereby an electric current along the interface between a ferromagnetic and normal metal leads to injection of pure spin current into the normal metal, if the magnetization-direction in the ferromagnet varies along the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-28 E. van der Bijl , R. E. Troncoso , R. A. Duine

The shape instability of magnetic domain walls under current is investigated in a ferromagnetic (Ga,Mn)(As,P) film with perpendicular anisotropy. Domain wall motion is driven by the spin transfer torque mechanism. A current density gradient…

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 investigate the motion of magnetic domain walls driven by magnetic fields and current-driven spin-orbit torques in an exchange-biased system with perpendicular magnetization. We consider Cr2O3/Co/Pt trilayers as model system, in which…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-20 B. J. Jacot , S. Vèlez , P. Noël , P. Helbingk , F. Binda , C. -H. Lambert , P. Gambardella

Domain walls (DWs) in perpendicularly magnetized nanotracks (PMNTs) with interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) have become the primary objects of theoretical and experimental interest due to their technological suitability in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-22 Yue Zhang , Mao-Kang Shen , Zai-Dong Li , Xiao-Fei Yang , Long You

We study the magnetic dynamics of magnetoelectric antiferromagnetic thin films, where an unconventional boundary ferromagnetism coexists with the bulk N\'{e}el phase below the N\'{e}el temperature. The spin exchange between the two order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 Ricardo Zarzuela , Se Kwon Kim , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

The dynamics of magnetic domain wall motion in the FeNi layer of a FeNi/Al2O3/Co trilayer has been investigated by a combination of x-ray magnetic circular dichroism, photoelectron emission microscopy, and a stroboscopic pump-probe…