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Stripe domains are narrow, elongated, reversed regions that exist in magnetic materials with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. Stripe domains appear as a pair of domain walls that can exhibit topology with a nonzero chirality. Recent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Max E. Ruth , Ezio Iacocca , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis , Mark A. Hoefer

Atomic force microscopy was used to investigate ferroelectric switching and nanoscale domain dynamics in epitaxial PbZr0.2Ti0.8O3 thin films. Measurements of the writing time dependence of domain size reveal a two-step process in which…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-11-07 P. Paruch , T. Giamarchi , T. Tybell , J. -M. Triscone

We study the effect of magnetic domain wall curvature on its dynamics in the creep regime in systems displaying Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). We first derive an extended creep model able to account for the finite curvature effect…

A domain wall in a ferromagnetic system will move under the action of an external magnetic field. Ultrathin Co layers sandwiched between Pt have been shown to be a suitable experimental realization of a weakly disordered 2D medium in which…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-08-11 P. Politi , P. J. Metaxas , J. -P. Jamet , R. L. Stamps , J. Ferré

The elastic interaction between kinks (and antikinks) within domain walls plays a pivotal role in shaping the domain structure, and their dynamics. In bulk materials, kinks interact as elastic monopoles, dependent on the distance between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-04 John J R Scott , Guangming Lu , Brian J. Rodriguez , Ian MacLaren , Ekhard K. H. Salje , Miryam Arredondo

We carry out large-scale micromagnetic simulations which demonstrate that due to topological constraints, internal domain walls (Bloch lines) within extended domain walls are more robust than domain walls in nanowires. Thus, the possibility…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-09-17 Touko Herranen , Lasse Laurson

Recent experimental studies of magnetic domain expansion under easy-axis drive fields in materials with a perpendicular magnetic anisotropy have shown that the domain wall velocity is asymmetric as a function of an external in plane…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 Dion M. F. Hartmann , Rembert A. Duine , Mariëlle J. Meijer , Henk J. M. Swagten , Reinoud Lavrijsen

There has been a plethora of studies on domain wall dynamics in magnetic nanostrips, mainly because of its versatile non-linear physics and potential applications in data storage devices. However, most of the studies focus on out-of-plane…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-27 Zhoujian Sun , Panpan Fang , Xinwei Shi , X. S. Wang , Fuxiang Li

Microscopic theory of domain wall dynamics under electric current is reviewed. Domain wall is treated as rigid and planar. The spin-transfer torque and forces on the wall are derived based on the $s$-$d$ exchange interaction between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Gen Tatara , Hiroshi Kohno , Junya Shibata

The Barkhausen jumps or avalanches in magnetic domain-walls motion between succesive pinned configurations, due the competition among magnetic external driving force and substrum quenched disorder, appear in bulk materials and thin films.…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-17 R. C. Buceta , D. Muraca

The dynamics of a 90$^{\circ }$ domain wall in an antiferromagnetic nanostrip driven by the current-induced spin-orbital torque are theoretically examined in the presence of random thermal fluctuations. A soliton-type equation of motion is…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-26 Yuriy G. Semenov , Xinyi Xu , Ki Wook Kim

We explore the magnetic-field-driven motion of domain walls with different chiralities in thin ferromagnetic films made of Pt/Co/Pt, Au/Co/Pt, and Pt/Co/Au. From the analysis of domain wall dynamics, we extract parameters characterizing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-04 P. Géhanne , S. Rohart , A. Thiaville , V. Jeudy

The dynamics of metastable magnetic domain walls in straight ferromagnetic nanowires under spin waves, external magnetic fields, and current induced spin transfer torque are studied by micromagnetic simulations. It is found that in contrast…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-30 Mahdi Jamali , Kyung-Jin Lee , Hyunsoo Yang

Current-driven vortex wall dynamics is studied by means of a two-dimensional analytical model and micromagnetic simulation. By constructing a trial function for the vortex wall in the magnetic wire, we analytically solve for domain wall…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Jiexuan He , Zhanjie Li , Shufeng Zhang

We investigate the impact of line-edge roughness on current-driven domain wall dynamics in ferromagnetic racetracks. Modeling the edge disorder as a spatially correlated Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process, we demonstrate that even minimal…

We have performed an experimental and modeling-based study of the spin-orbit torque-induced growth of magnetic stripe domains in heavy metal/ferromagnet thin-film heterostructures that possess chiral N\'eel-type domain walls due to an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-04 Jeffrey A. Brock , Daan Swinkels , Bert Koopmans , Eric E. Fullerton

Manipulation of magnetic domain walls via a helicity-independent laser pulse has recently been experimentally demonstrated and various physical mechanisms leading to domain wall dynamics have been discussed. Spin-dependent superdiffusive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Pavel Baláž , Karel Carva , Ulrike Ritzmann , Pablo Maldonado , Peter M. Oppeneer

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 report a comparative study of magnetic field driven domain wall motion in thin films made of different magnetic materials for a wide range of field and temperature. The full thermally activated creep motion, observed below the depinning…

In this report we demonstrate a simple model for the motion of a vortex domain wall in a ferromagnetic strip of submicron width under the influence of an external magnetic field. The model exhibits three distinct dynamical regimes. In a…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-06-01 D. Clarke , G. -W. Chern , O. A. Tretiakov , O. Tchernyshyov