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We investigated how the dynamics of a domain wall are affected by the presence of spin density waves in a ferromagnetic wire. Domain walls and other scattering centres can cause coherent spin density waves to propagate through a wire when a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-19 Nicholas Sedlmayr , Vitalii Dugaev , Jamal Berakdar

We theoretically investigate the transfer of angular momentum between a spin superfluid and a domain wall in an exchange coupled easy-axis and easy-plane magnetic insulator system. A domain wall in the easy-axis magnet absorbs spin angular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Pramey Upadhyaya , Se Kwon Kim , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Perpendicularly magnetized materials have attracted tremendous interest due to their high anisotropy, which results in extremely narrow, nano-sized domain walls. As a result, the recently studied current-induced domain wall motion (CIDWM)…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-11 P. P. J. Haazen , E. Murè , J. H. Franken , R. Lavrijsen , H. J. M. Swagten , B. Koopmans

The propagation of a domain wall in a submicron ferromagnetic spin-valve stripe is investigated using giant magnetoresistance. A notch in the stripe efficiently traps an injected wall stopping the domain propagation. The authors show that…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-04-02 J. Briones , F. Montaigne , Daniel Lacour , M. Hehn , M. J. Carey , J. R. Childress

We demonstrate numerically the ability to displace a magnetic domain wall by a remote spin current injection. We consider a long and narrow magnetic nanostripe with a single domain wall (DW). The spin-polarized current is injected…

The discovery that a spin polarized current can exert a large torque on a ferromagnet through a transfusion of spin angular momentum, offers a new way to control a magnetization by simple current injection, without the help of an applied…

We investigate diffusive transport through a number of domain wall (DW) profiles of the important magnetic alloy Permalloy taking into account simultaneously noncollinearity, alloy disorder, and spin-orbit coupling fully quantum…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-01-01 Zhe Yuan , Yi Liu , Anton A. Starikov , Paul J. Kelly , Arne Brataas

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

Fast domain wall motion in systems with perpendicular magnetization is necessary for many novel applications such as the racetrack memory, domain wall logic devices and artificial synapses. The domain wall speed has been greatly improved…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-16 Jingwei Long , Yumeng Yang , Shuyuan Shi , Xuanyao Fong , Gengchiau Liang , Zhifeng Zhu

The propagation of domain walls in a ferromagnetic film is largely determined by domain wall pinning at defects in the material. In this letter we map the effective potential landscape for domain wall pinning in Permalloy films by raster…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-15 Robert Badea , Jesse Berezovsky

We develop the theory of magnetic domain wall motion in coupled double-layer systems where electrons can hop between the layers giving rise to an antiferromagnetic coupling. We demonstrate that the force from the interlayer coupling drives…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-26 Henri Saarikoski , Hiroshi Kohno , Christopher H. Marrows , Gen Tatara

We present a circuit model to describe the electron transport through a domain wall in a ferromagnetic nanowire. The domain wall is treated as a coherent 4-terminal device with incoming and outgoing channels of spin up and down and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter E. Falloon , Rodolfo A. Jalabert , Dietmar Weinmann , Robert L. Stamps

We study current-induced dynamics of spin textures in thin magnetic nanowires. We derive effective equations of motion describing the dynamics of the domain-wall soft modes associated with topological defects. Because the magnetic domain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-30 O. A. Tretiakov , Ar. Abanov

Memory and logic devices that encode information in magnetic domains rely on the controlled injection of domain walls to reach their full potential. In this work, we exploit the chiral coupling induced by the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-27 T. Phuong Dao , Marvin Müller , Zhaochu Luo , Manuel Baumgartner , Aleš Hrabec , Laura J. Heyderman , Pietro Gambardella

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

We analyze the dynamics of a domain wall in an easy-axis antiferromagnet driven by circularly polarized magnons. Magnons pass through a stationary domain wall without reflection and thus exert no force on it. However, they reverse their…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-09-10 Se Kwon Kim , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Oleg Tchernyshyov

Domain wall propagation in cylindrical nanowires with modulations of diameter is a key phenomenon to design physics-oriented devices, or a disruptive three-dimensional magnetic memory. This chapter presents a combination of analytical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-16 A. De Riz , B. Trapp , J. A. Fernandez-Roldan , Ch. Thirion , J. -Ch. Toussaint , O. Fruchart , D. Gusakova

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 perform real-space imaging of propagating magnetic domains in the fractional quantum Hall system using spin-sensitive photoluminescence microscopy. The propagation is continuous and proceeds in the direction of the conventional current,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 John N. Moore , Junichiro Hayakawa , Takaaki Mano , Takeshi Noda , Go Yusa

We calculate the interaction between two magnetic domain walls during their current-induced motion. This interaction produces a separation-dependent resistance and also a differential velocity, causing domains in motion to experience an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-28 E. A. Golovatski , M. E. Flatté