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Domain wall bimerons (DWBMs) are nanoscale spin textures residing within the magnetic domain walls of in-plane magnets. In this study, we employ both numerical and analytical methods to explore the stabilization of N\'eel-type domain wall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Jiwen Chen , Laichuan Shen , Hongyu An , Xichao Zhang , Hua Zhang , Haifeng Du , Xiaoguang Li , Yan Zhou

Spintronic devices, whose operation is based on the motion of a magnetic domain wall (DW), have been proposed recently. If a DW could be driven directly by flowing an electric current instead of a magnetic field, the performance and…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Akinobu Yamaguchi , Teruo Ono , Saburo Nasu , Kousaku Miyake , Ko Mibu , Teruya Shinjo

Magnetic domain-walls (DWs) with a preferred chirality exhibit very efficient current-driven motion. Since structural inversion asymmetry (SIA) is required for their stability, the observation of chiral domain walls in highly symmetric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-14 Jeroen H. Franken , Mark Herps , Henk J. M. Swagten , Bert Koopmans

The dynamics of current-induced motion of a magnetic domain wall in a quasi-one-dimensional ferromagnet with both easy-axis and easy-plane anisotropy, is studied. We pay a special attention to the case of a sharp domain wall, and calculate…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 V. K. Dugaev , V. R. Vieira , P. D. Sacramento , J. Barnas , M. A. N. Araujo , J. Berakdar

The motion of magnetic domain walls in ultrathin magnetic heterostructures driven by current via the spin Hall torque is described. We show results from perpendicularly magnetized CoFeB|MgO heterostructures with various heavy metal…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-26 Jacob Torrejon , Masamitsu Hayashi

Finding a new control parameter for magnetic domain wall (DW) motion in magnetic nanostructures is important in general and in particular for the spintronics applications. Here, we show that a circularly polarized magnetic field (CPMF) at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-13 P. Yan , X. R. Wang

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

The dynamics of magnetic domain walls along ferromagnetic strips with spatially modulated perpendicular magnetic anisotropy is theoretically studied by means of micromagnetic simulations. Ferromagnetic layers with a periodic sawtooth…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-06-19 Luis Sánchez-Tejerina , Óscar Alejos , Víctor Raposo , Eduardo Martínez

Micromagnetic simulation is carried out to investigate the current-driven domain wall (DW) in a nanowire with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA). A stepped nanowire is proposed to pin DW and achieve high information storage capacity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 S. Al Risi , R. Sbiaa , M. Al Bahri

Domain wall propagation in modulated-diameter cylindrical nanowires is a key phenomenon to be studied with a view to designing three-dimensional magnetic memory devices. This paper presents a theoretical study of transverse domain wall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-18 J. A. Fernandez-Roldan , A. De Riz , B. Trapp , C. Thirion , J. -C. Toussaint , O. Fruchart , D. Gusakova

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

We study deterministic magnetic reversal of a perpendicularly magnetized Co layer in a Co/MgO/Ta nano-square driven by spin Hall torque from an in-plane current flowing in an underlying Pt layer. The rate-limiting step of the switching…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 O. J. Lee , L. Q. Liu , C. F. Pai , H. W. Tseng , Y. Li , D. C. Ralph , R. A. Buhrman

We study the depinning of domain walls by pure diffusive spin currents in a nonlocal spin valve structure based on two ferromagnetic permalloy elements with copper as the nonmagnetic spin conduit. The injected spin current is absorbed by…

A study of transverse tail-to-tail magnetic domain walls (DW) in novel current perpendicular to the plane (CPP) spin valves (SV) of various dimensions is presented. For films with dimensions larger than the DW width, we find that DW motion…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Rebei O. Mryasov

Spin-polarized electric current exerts torque on local magnetic spins, resulting in magnetic domain-wall (DW) motion in ferromagnetic nanowires. Such current-driven DW motion opens great opportunities toward next-generation magnetic devices…

Domain-wall bimerons are composite topological structures formed by embedding bimerons within domain walls in ferromagnets with in-plane anisotropy. These hybrid textures have recently attracted significant attention due to their promise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-05 Jiwen Chen , Laichuan Shen , Yan Zhou , Oleg A. Tretiakov , Xiaoguang Li

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

Cylindrical magnetic nanowires have been proposed as a means of storing and processing information in a 3D medium, based on the motion of domain walls~(DWs). Introducing short chemical modulations in such wires would allow for reliable…

Recent studies on heterostructures of ultrathin ferromagnets sandwiched between a heavy metal layer and an oxide have highlighted the importance of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and broken inversion symmetry in domain wall (DW) motion.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-15 S. Ali Nasseri , Simone Moretti , Eduardo Martinez , Claudio Serpico , Gianfranco Durin

The effect of sample shape on the depinning of the domain wall (DW) driven by an applied magnetic field or a spin-polarized current is studied theoretically. The shape effect resulting from the modulation of the sample width (geometric…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-19 N. Logoboy , B. Shapiro , E. B. Sonin