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A series of microstructures designed to pin domain-walls (DWs) in (Ga,Mn)As with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy has been employed to determine extrinsic and intrinsic contributions to DW resistance. The former is explained quantitatively…

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

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

Spin waves (SW) can induce rich domain wall (DW) motion in a perpendicular-magnetic anisotropy nanostrip. In-plane magnetization tilt angle resulting from the fluctuation of the effective field of the magnetization response in the DW region…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-07-07 Liang-Juan Chang , Yen-Fu Liu , Ming-Yi Kao , Li-Zai Tsai , Jun-Zhi Liang , Shang-Fan Lee

It is a well-established notion that the spin of a magnon should be flipped when it passes through a $180^{\circ}$ domain wall (DW) in both ferromagnets and antiferromagnets, while the magnon spin transport through ferrimagnetic DW is still…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-14 Zhaozhuo Zeng , Peng Yan

We theoretically investigate the dynamics of atomic domain walls (DWs) in antiferromagnets driven by a spin-orbit field. For a DW with the width of a few lattice constants, we identify a Peierls-like pinning effect, with the depinning field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-05 Huanhuan Yang , H. Y. Yuan , Ming Yan , Peng Yan

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

The magnetostatic interaction between magnetic domain walls (DWs) in adjacent nanotracks has been shown to produce strong inter-DW coupling and mutual pinning. In this paper, we have used electrical measurements of adjacent spin-valve…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-04-04 J. Sampaio , L. O'Brien , D. Petit , D. E. Read , E. R. Lewis , H. T. Zeng , L. Thevenard , S. Cardoso , R. P. Cowburn

Understanding and manipulating nanoscale domain wall (DW) dynamics is a central topic in magnetism and spintronics for its promising applications in logic and memory devices. In most magnetic systems, inertia affects only transient DW…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 K. Y. Jing , X. R. Wang , H. Y. Yuan

Conventional magnetic domain walls are characterized by reorientation of local spins. However, what occurs at the boundary of itinerant magnets is largely unknown. Here using spin-sensitive scanning tunneling microscopy, we investigated the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-05 Yining Hu , Xu Wang , Chen Chen , Qingle Zhang , Dongming Zhao , Tianzhen Zhang , Chenxi Wang , Qiang-Hua Wang , Donglai Feng , Tong Zhang

Spins transverse to the magnetization of a ferromagnet only survives over a short distance. We develop a drift-diffusion approach that captures the main features of transverse spin effects in systems with arbitrary spin textures (vortices,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-29 Cyril Petitjean , David Luc , Xavier Waintal

We predict the existence of anisotropic spin-transfer torque effect in textured altermagnets. To this end, we generalize the Zhang-Li torque to incorporate the symmetry associated with prototypical $d$-wave altermagnets and identify the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-30 Hamed Vakili , Edward Schwartz , Alexey A. Kovalev

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

Domain walls are the transition regions between two magnetic domains. These objects have been very relevant during the last decade, not only due to their intrinsic interest in the development of novel spintronics devices but also because of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 Oscar Alejos , Víctor Raposo , Eduardo Martínez

The potential experienced by transverse domain walls (TDWs) in the vicinity of asymmetric constrictions or protrusions in thin Permalloy nanowires is probed using spatially resolved magneto-optical Kerr effect measurements. Both types of…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-11-07 Dorothee Petit , Ana-Vanessa Jausovec , Dan Read , Russell P. Cowburn

We study transport in the presence of magnetic domain walls (DWs) in a lattice model of ferromagnetic type-I Weyl metals. We compute the diagonal and Hall conductivities in the presence of a DW, using both Kubo and Landauer formalisms, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-19 Sopheak Sorn , Arun Paramekanti

The recent observation of current-induced domain wall (DW) motion with large velocity in ultrathin magnetic wires has opened new opportunities for spintronic devices. However, there is still no consensus on the underlying mechanisms of DW…

We demonstrate here that ultrathin ferromagnetic Pt/Co/Pt films with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy exhibit a sizeable Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) effect. Such a DMI effect modifies the domain-wall (DW) energy density and…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-04-25 Soong-Geun Je , Duck-Ho Kim , Sang-Cheol Yoo , Byoung-Chul Min , Kyung-Jin Lee , Sug-Bong Choe

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

Magnetic domain walls (DWs) in nanostructures are low-dimensional objects that separate regions with uniform magnetisation. Since they can have different shapes and widths, DWs are an exciting playground for fundamental research, and became…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-17 V. D. Nguyen , O. Fruchart , S. Pizzini , J. Vogel , J. -C. Toussaint , N. Rougemaille

Antiferromagnetic materials are outstanding candidates for next generation spintronic applications, because their ultrafast spin dynamics makes it possible to realize several orders of magnitude higher-speed devices than conventional…