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The manipulation of geometrically constrained magnetic domain walls (DWs) in nanoscale magnetic strips has attracted much interest recently, with proposals for prospective memory and logic devices. Here we propose to use the high…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-03-28 P. Vavassori , M. Gobbi , M. Donolato , V. Metlushko , B. Ilic , M. Cantoni , D. Petti , S. Brivio , R. Bertacco

A domain wall in a magnet with easy-axis anisotropy is shown to harbor spin superfluid associated with its spontaneous breaking of the U(1) spin-rotational symmetry. The spin superfluid is shown to have several topological properties, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Se Kwon Kim , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

We consider the spin torque induced by a current flowing ballistically through a magnetic domain wall. In addition to a global pressure in the direction of the electronic flow, the torque has an internal structure of comparable magnitude…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Xavier Waintal , Michel Viret

We theoretically investigate chiral domain walls (DWs) formed in radially magnetized nanotubes composed of ultrathin layers with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA). Unlike those with in-plane magnetic anisotropy, the stable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-15 Nobuyuki Umetsu , Hiroki Tokuhira , Michael Quinsat , Hideto Horii , Tsuyoshi Kondo , Masaki Kado

Switching in magnetic materials gives rise to rich physical phenomena and lies at the heart of their technological applications. Although domain wall motion in ferro- and antiferromagnets has been studied, in spiral magnets it is still…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-19 Francesco Foggetti , Margherita Parodi , Naoto Nagaosa , Sergey Artyukhin

Transmission probability of a domain wall through a magnetic nanowire is investigated as a function of the external magnetic field. Very intriguing phenomenon is found that the transmission probability shows a significant drop after…

The current-driven motion of a domain wall (DW) in a ferromagnet with many Bloch lines (BLs) via the spin transfer torque is studied theoretically. It is found that the motion of BLs changes the current-velocity ($j$-$v$) characteristic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-15 Junichi Iwasaki , Naoto Nagaosa

Of the new types of cryoelectronic devices under development, including phase shifters, giant magnetoresistance switches, diodes, transistors, and memory cells, some are based on hybrid superconductor-normal metal or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-07 L. S. Uspenskaya , S. V. Egorov

In this article we use chiral domain walls to manipulate and trap magnetic skyrmion quasi-particles in chiral magnetic materials such as ultrathin Co/Pt films. The magnetic skyrmions can be orientated such that their interaction with domain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-14 Paul Leask

The spin Hall effect (SHE) generates spin currents within nonmagnetic materials. Previously, studies of the SHE have been motivated primarily to understand its fundamental origin and magnitude. Here we demonstrate, using measurement and…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-30 Luqiao Liu , O. J. Lee , T. J. Gudmundsen , D. C. Ralph , R. A. Buhrman

Domain-Wall Memory (DWM) structures typically bundle nanowires shifted together for parallel access. Ironically, this organization does not allow the natural shifting of DWM to realize \textit{logical shifting} within data elements. We…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Arifa Hoque , Alex K. Jones , Sanjukta Bhanja

Magnetic domain walls are topological solitons whose internal structure is set by competing energies which sculpt them. In common ferromagnets, domain walls are known to be of either Bloch or N\'eel types. Little is established in the case…

Deterministic control of domain walls orthogonal to the direction of current flow is demonstrated by exploiting spin orbit torque in a perpendicularly polarized Ta/CoFeB/MgO multilayer in presence of an in-plane magnetic field. Notably,…

We consider the dynamics of polarization of a single domain wall in a magnetic nanowire, which is strongly pinned by impurities. In this case the equation of motion for the polarization parameter does not include any other dynamical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-16 N. Sedlmayr , V. Dugaev , J. Berakdar

Many future concepts for spintronic devices are based on the current-driven motion of magnetic domain walls through nanowires. Consequently a thorough understanding of the domain wall mobility is required. However, the magnitude of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-24 J. Leliaert , B. Van de Wiele , A. Vansteenkiste , L. Laurson , G. Durin , L. Dupré , B. Van Waeyenberge

Manipulation of magnetic domain walls via a helicity-independent laser pulse has recently been experimentally demonstrated and various physical mechanisms leading to domain wall dynamics have been discussed. Spin-dependent superdiffusive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Pavel Baláž , Karel Carva , Ulrike Ritzmann , Pablo Maldonado , Peter M. Oppeneer

The time it takes to accelerate an object from zero to a given velocity depends on the applied force and the environment. If the force ceases, it takes exactly the same time to completely decelerate. A magnetic domain wall (DW) is a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-29 Jacob Torrejon , Eduardo Martinez , Masamitsu Hayashi

A domain wall (DW) in a ferromagnetic nanowire is composed of elementary topological bulk and edge defects with integer and fractional winding numbers, respectively, whose relative spatial arrangement determines the chirality of the DW.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-08 Aakash Pushp , Timothy Phung , Charles Rettner , Brian P. Hughes , See-Hun Yang , Luc Thomas , Stuart S. P. Parkin

We study current induced magnetization dynamics in a long thin ferromagnetic wire with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). We find a spiral domain wall configuration of the magnetization and obtain an analytical expression for the…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-10-06 Oleg A. Tretiakov , Ar. Abanov

The Hall effect, in which current flows perpendicular to an applied electrical bias, has played a prominent role in modern condensed matter physics over much of the subject's history. Appearing variously in classical, relativistic and…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-07-08 Libor Smejkal , Allan H. MacDonald , Jairo Sinova , Satoru Nakatsuji , Tomas Jungwirth