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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

Coherent control of domain wall dynamics offers a route to fast manipulation of magnetic textures beyond thermally activated motion. We demonstrate resonant excitation of linear and nonlinear dynamics of a pinned domain wall in a…

When a spin-polarized current flows through a ferromagnet, the local magnetization receives a spin torque. Two consequences of this spin torque are studied. First, the uniformly magnetized ferromagnet becomes unstable if a sufficiently…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 Z. Li , J. He , S. Zhang

A theory for the spin wave eigenmodes of a Dzyaloshinskii domain wall is presented. These walls are N\'eel-type domain walls that can appear in perpendicularly-magnetized ultrathin ferromagnets in the presence of a sizeable…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-07-07 Pablo Borys , Felipe Garcia-Sanchez , Joo-Von Kim , Robert L. Stamps

Control of magnetic domain wall motion by electric fields has recently attracted scientific attention because of its potential for magnetic logic and memory devices. Here, we report on a new driving mechanism that allows for magnetic domain…

We consider long and narrow spin valves composed of a first magnetic layer with a single domain wall (DW), a normal metal spacer and a second magnetic layer that is a planar or a perpendicular polarizer. For these structures, we study…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 A. V. Khvalkovskiy , K. A. Zvezdin , Ya. V. Gorbunov , V. Cros , J. Grollier , A. K. Zvezdin

Antiferromagnetic (AF) domain walls have recently attracted revived attention, not only in the emerging field of AF spintronics, but also more specifically for offering fast domain wall velocities and dynamic excitations up to the terahertz…

We present a theoretical formalism to address the dynamics of textured, noncolliear antiferromagnets subject to spin current injection. We derive sine-Gordon type equations of motion for the antiferromagnets, which are applicable to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-21 Yuta Yamane , Olena Gomonay , Jairo Sinova

In a first approximation, known as the adiabatic process, the direction of the spin polarization of currents is parallel to the local magnetization vector in a domain wall. Thus the spatial variation of the direction of the spin current…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Z. Li , S. Zhang

We present theoretical description of the precessional switching processes induced by simultaneous application of spin-polarized current and external magnetic field to antiferromagnetic component of the "pinned" layer. We found stability…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-29 Helen V. Gomonay , Vadim M. Loktev

The effect of magnetic domain boundaries displacement induced by electric field is observed in epitaxial ferrite garnet films (on substrates with the (210) crystallographic orientation). The effect is odd with respect to the electric field…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-01-29 A. S. Logginov , G. A. Meshkov , V. A. Nikolaev , A. P. Pyatakov , A. K. Zvezdin

We study domain wall (DW) dynamics in permalloy nanowires excited by alternating spin-polarized current applied perpendicular to the nanowire. Spin torque ferromagnetic resonance measurements reveal that DW oscillations at a pinning site in…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-29 C. T. Boone , J. A. Katine , M. Carey , J. R. Childress , X. Cheng , I. N. Krivorotov

Domain wall motion driven by ultra-short laser pulses is a prerequisite for envisaged low-power spintronics combining storage of information in magneto electronic devices with high speed and long distance transmission of information encoded…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 T. Janda , P. E. Roy , R. M. Otxoa , Z. Soban , A. Ramsay , A. C. Irvine , F. Trojanek , R. P. Campion , B. L. Gallagher , P. Nemec , T. Jungwirth , J. Wunderlich

The channeling of spin waves with domain walls in ultrathin ferromagnetic films is demonstrated theoretically and through micromagnetics simulations. It is shown that propagating excitations localized to the wall, which appear in the…

We consider theoretically the effect of an inhomogeneous magnetoelectric coupling on the magnon-induced dynamics of a ferromagnet. The magnon-mediated magnetoelectric torque affects both the homogeneous magnetization and magnon-driven…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-25 Vetle Risinggård , Iryna Kulagina , Jacob Linder

Propagation of the magnetization waves along domain walls (2D magnons) in a superconducting ferromagnet has been studied theoretically. The magnetostatic fields (long-range dipole-dipole interaction) have a crucial effect on the spectrum of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-10-04 N. A. Logoboy , E. B. Sonin

We present a micromagnetic study of the current-induced domain wall motion in perpendicularly magnetized Pt/Co/AlOx racetracks. We show that the domain wall velocity depends critically on the tilt angle of the wall relative to the current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-27 Manuel Baumgartner , Pietro Gambardella

Domain walls are the topological defects that mediate polarization reversal in ferroelectrics, and they may exhibit quite different geometric and electronic structures compared to the bulk. Therefore, a detailed atomic-scale understanding…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-01-12 Meng Ye , David Vanderbilt

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

We probe the current-induced magnetic switching of insulating antiferromagnet/heavy metals systems, by electrical spin Hall magnetoresistance measurements and direct imaging, identifying a reversal occurring by domain wall (DW) motion. We…