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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

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

Domain wall dynamics in ferromagnets is complicated by internal degrees of freedom of the domain walls. We develop a model of domain walls in disordered thin films with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy capturing such features, and use it…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-08 Audun Skaugen , Lasse Laurson

The future developments of three-dimensional magnetic nanotechnology require the control of domain wall dynamics by means of current pulses. While this has been extensively studied in planar magnetic strips (planar nanowires), few reports…

The analysis of domain wall dynamics is often simplified to one dimensional physics. For domain walls in thin films, more realistic approaches require the description as two dimensional objects. This includes the study of vortices and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-25 Davi R. Rodrigues , Ar. Abanov , J. Sinova , K. Everschor-Sitte

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

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

A thory of field-induced domain wall (DW) propagation is developed. The theory not only explains why a DW in a defect-free nanowire must propagate at a finite velocity, but also provides a proper definition of DW propagation velocity. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 X. R. Wang , P. Yan , J. Lu

A domain wall in a ferromagnetic one-dimensional nanowire experiences current induced motion due to its coupling with the conduction electrons. When the current is not sufficient to drive the domain wall through the wire, or it is confined…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-13 Nicholas Sedlmayr , Jamal Berakdar

Recent experiments show striking unexpected features when alternating square magnetic field pulses are applied to ferromagnetic samples: domains show area reduction and domains walls change their roughness. We explain these phenomena with a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-11-17 Nirvana Caballero

The dynamics of a domain wall in magnetostrictive materials is investigated. The domain wall is modeled by a d-dimensional interface moving in a d+1-dimensional environment. Long-range demagnetization effects and quenched disorder are…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexei Vazquez , Oscar Sotolongo-Costa

Magnetic domain walls can be moved by spin-polarized currents due to spin-transfer torques. This opens the possibility to use them in spintronic memory devices as, e.g., in racetrack storage. Naturally, in miniaturized devices domain walls…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Martin Stier , Jennifer Erdmann , Michael Thorwart

The current-induced motion of a domain wall in a semicircle nanowire with applied Zeeman field is investigated. Starting from a micromagnetic model we derive an analytical solution which characterizes the domain-wall motion as a harmonic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Benjamin Krueger , Daniela Pfannkuche , Markus Bolte , Guido Meier , Ulrich Merkt

We generalize domain-wall dynamics to the case of translationally noninvariant ferromagnetic nanowires. The obtained equations of motion make the description of the domain-wall propagation more realistic by accounting for the variations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-13 O. A. Tretiakov , Y. Liu , Ar. Abanov

The dynamics of transverse Neel domain wall in a ferromagnetic nanostrip in the presence of driving field, current and transverse magnetic field is investigated by the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert(LLG) equation with the adiabatic and…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-19 R. Arun , P. Sabareesan , M. Daniel

The propagation of a magnetic domain wall (DW) in a submicron magnetic wire consisting of a magnetic/nonmagnetic/magnetic trilayered structure with asymmetric notches was investigated by utilizing the giant magnetoresistance effect. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Himeno , T. Okuno , S. Kasai , T. Ono , S. Nasu , K. Mibu , T. Shinjo

The dynamics of a magnetic domain wall in a semi circular nanowire loop is studied by an analytical model and micromagnetic simulations. We find a damped sinusoidal oscillation of the domain wall for small displacement angles around its…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-03-25 Mahdi Jamali , Kyung-Jin Lee , Hyunsoo Yang

The effect of impurity and domain-wall scattering on the electrical conductivity of disordered mesoscopic magnetic thin films is studied by use of computer simulation. The results indicate a reduction of resistivity due to a domain wall,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Philip A. E. Jonkers , Steven J. Pickering , Hans De Raedt , Gen Tatara

We study spin motive forces, i.e, spin-dependent forces, and voltages induced by time-dependent magnetization textures, for moving magnetic vortices and domain walls. First, we consider the voltage generated by a one-dimensional…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-29 M. E. Lucassen , G. C. F. L. Kruis , R. Lavrijsen , H. J. M. Swagten , B. Koopmans , R. A. Duine

Theoretically, we study the dynamics of a current induced domain wall in the bi-layer structure consists of a ferromagnetic layer and a non-magnetic metal layer with strong spin-orbit coupling in the presence of spin-Hall effect. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-21 R. Arun , P. Sabareesan , M. Daniel