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Advancing the development of spin-wave devices requires high-quality low-damping magnetic materials where magnon spin currents can propagate efficiently and interact effectively with local magnetic textures. We show that magnetic domain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-06 Yabin Fan , Miela J. Gross , Takian Fakhrul , Joseph Finley , Justin T. Hou , Luqiao Liu , Caroline A. Ross

The spin Hall effect creates a spin current in response to a charge current in a material that has strong spin-orbit coupling. The size of the spin Hall effect in many materials is disputed, requiring independent measurements of the effect.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-10 Joseph A. Boales , Carl T. Boone , Pritiraj Mohanty

Domain-wall skyrmions (DWSKs) are topological spin textures confined within domain walls that have recently attracted significant attention due to their potential applications in racetrack memory technologies. In this study, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-09 Haoyang Nie , Zhixiong Li , Xiansi Wang , Zhenyu Wang

Current-induced domain wall (DW) motion has drawn great attention in the last decades as the key operational principle of emerging magnetic memory devices. As the major driving force of the current-induced DW motion, the spin-orbit torque…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-04-26 Soong-Geun Je , Sang-Cheol Yoo , Joo-Sung Kim , Joon Moon , Byoung-Chul Min , Sug-Bong Choe

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…

Current-induced domain wall motion in the presence of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) is experimentally and theoretically investigated in heavy-metal/ferromagnet bilayers. The angular dependence of the current-induced torque and…

We demonstrate movement of a head-to-head domain wall through a magnetic nanowire simply by passing an electrical current through the domain wall and without any external magnetic field applied. The effect depends on the sense and magnitude…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-31 Nicolas Vernier , Dan A. Allwood , Del Atkinson , Michael D. Cooke , Russell P. Cowburn

Spin orbit interactions are rapidly emerging as the key for enabling efficient current-controlled spintronic devices. Much work has focused on the role of spin-orbit coupling at heavy metal/ferromagnet interfaces in generating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-10 Eduardo Martinez , Luis Torres , Noel Perez , Maria Auxiliadora Hernandez , Victor Raposo , Simone Moretti

The current-driven motion of magnetic domain walls (DWs) is the working principle of magnetic racetrack memories. In this type of spintronic technology, high current densities are used to propel DW motion in magnetic nanowires, causing…

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 explore a new type of domain wall structure in ultrathin films with perpendicular anisotropy, that is influenced by the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction due to the adjacent layers. This study is performed by numerical and analytical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Andre Thiaville , Stanislas Rohart , Emilie Jue , Vincent Cros , Albert Fert

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

We investigate the anisotropy of magnetic reversal and current-driven domain wall motion in annealed Ga_0.95Mn_0.05As thin films and Hall bar devices with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. Hall bars with current direction along the [110]…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-27 K Y Wang , A C Irvine , J Wunderlich , K W Edmonds , A W Rushforth , R P Campion , C T Foxon , D A Williams , B L Gallagher

Manipulation of magnetic domain walls can be used to improve the capabilities of the next generation of memory and sensing devices. Materials of recent interest for such devices include heterostructures of ultrathin ferromagnets sandwiched…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-03 S. Ali Nasseri , Eduardo Martinez , Gianfranco Durin

Speed and reliability of magnetic domain wall (DW) motion are key parameters that must be controlled to realize the full potential of DW-based magnetic devices for logic and memory applications. A major hindrance to this is extrinsic DW…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-07 M. Schøbitz , O. Novotny , B. Trapp , S. Bochmann , L. Cagnon , C. Thirion , A. Massebœuf , E. Mossang , O. Fruchart , J. Bachmann

In order to explain recent experiments reporting a motion of magnetic domain walls (DW) in nanowires carrying a current, we propose a modification of the spin transfer torque term in the Landau-Lifchitz-Gilbert equation. We show that it…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-24 A. Thiaville , Y. Nakatani , J. Miltat , Y Suzuki

Interactions between pairs of magnetic domain walls (DW) and pinning by radial constrictions were studied in cylindrical nanowires with surface roughness. It was found that a radial constriction creates a symmetric pinning potential well,…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-22 Voicu O. Dolocan

The shape instability of magnetic domain walls under current is investigated in a ferromagnetic (Ga,Mn)(As,P) film with perpendicular anisotropy. Domain wall motion is driven by the spin transfer torque mechanism. A current density gradient…

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

It is theoretically demonstrated that a displacement of a pinned domain wall, typically of order of $\mu$m, can be driven by use of an ac current which is below threshold value. The point here is that finite motion around the pinning center…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Gen Tatara , Eiji Saitoh , Masahiko Ichimura , Hiroshi Kohno