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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

Spin dynamics of field-driven domain walls (DWs) guided by Permalloy nanowires are studied by high-speed magneto-optic polarimetry and numerical simulations. DW velocities and spin configurations are determined as functions of longitudinal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-05 Jusang Yang , Geoffrey S. D. Beach , Carl Knutson , James L. Erskine

We theoretically study the interaction of magnons, quanta of spin waves, and a domain wall in a one-dimensional easy-axis antiferromagnet in the presence of an external magnetic field applied along the easy axis. To this end, we begin by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-19 Pengtao Shen , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Se Kwon Kim

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…

The demonstration of the generation and control of a pure spin current (without net charge flow) by electric fields and/or temperature gradient has been an essential leap in the quest for low-power consumption electronics. The key issue of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-10 Chenglong Jia , Jamal Berakdar

We report on a quantum description of the domain wall (DW) motion under a spin current. A bound magnon, which is the zero mode of DW, is found to play a dominant role in DW dynamics. The bound magnon acquires its inertia by the hard axis…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-01-21 Tae-Suk Kim , J. Ieda , S. Maekawa

The propagation of a head-to-head magnetic domain-wall (DW) or a tail-to-tail DW in a magnetic nanowire under a static field along the wire axis is studied. Relationship between the DW velocity and DW structure is obtained from the energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-03-12 X. R. Wang , P. Yan

We consider a wire consisting of a conducting ferromagnetic layer and an insulating antiferromagnetic layer that are coupled. The ferromagnet hosts a domain wall, which is dynamically driven by a charge current. We show that for a specific…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 A. L. Bassant , R. A. Duine

We study current-induced dynamics of spin textures in thin magnetic nanowires. We derive effective equations of motion describing the dynamics of the domain-wall soft modes associated with topological defects. Because the magnetic domain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-30 O. A. Tretiakov , Ar. Abanov

Racetrack memory based on magnetic domain walls (DWs) motion exhibits advantages of small volume and high reading speed. When compared to current-induced DW motion, voltage-induced DW motion exhibits lower dissipation. On the other hand,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Fa Chen , Zhendong Zhang , Wei Luo , Xiaofei Yang , Long You , Yue Zhang

Magnetic domain walls (DWs) are topological defects that exhibit robust low-energy modes that can be harnessed for classical and neuromorphic computing. However, the quantum nature of these modes has been elusive thus far. Using the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-09 Mircea Trif , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

We show that an applied charge current in a magnetic nanowire containing domain walls (DWs) results in an interaction between DWs mediated by spin-dependent interferences of the scattered carriers. The energy and torque associated with this…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-05-25 N. Sedlmayr , V. K. Dugaev , J. Berakdar

We study domain wall (DW) motion induced by spin waves (magnons) in the presence of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). The DMI exerts a torque on the DW when spin waves pass through the DW, and this torque represents a linear momentum…

We theoretically study field-induced domain wall (DW) motion in an electrically insulating ferromagnet with hard- and easy-axis anisotropies. DWs can propagate along a dissipationless wire through spin wave emission locked into the known…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-17 X. S. Wang , P. Yan , Y. H. Shen , G. E. W. Bauer , X. R. Wang

One of the fundamental effects of the laser-matter interaction is the appearance of an induced transient magnetisation. While the underlying phenomena differ in their microscopic origin and cover a diverse array of materials, here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Paul-Iulian Gavriloaea , Elías Saugar , Rubén Otxoa , Oksana Chubykalo-Fesenko

We theoretically investigate the interaction between magnons and a Skyrmion-textured domain wall in a two-dimensional antiferromagnet and elucidate the resultant properties of magnon transport. Using supersymmetric quantum mechanics, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-10 Seungho Lee , Kouki Nakata , Oleg Tchernyshyov , Se Kwon Kim

We present a theoretical study of heat transport in electrically insulating ferromagnetic wires containing a domain wall. In the regime of validity of continuum micromagnetism a domain wall is found to have no effect on the heat…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-07 Peng Yan , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

An antiferromagnetic domain wall in a thermal gradient is found to experience a force towards colder regions upon the application of a uniform magnetic field along the easy axis. This force increases with the strength of the applied field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-21 R. Yanes , M. Rodriguez Rosa , L. Lopez-Diaz

It has recently been shown that domain walls in ferromagnets can be moved in the presence of thermal gradients. In this work we study the motion of narrow domain walls in low-dimensional systems when subjected to thermal gradients. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-16 Jonathan Chico , Corina Etz , Lars Bergqvist , Olle Eriksson , Jonas Fransson , Anna Delin , Anders Bergman

We study the current-driven domain wall (DW) motion in cylindrical nanowires using micromagnetic simulations by implementing the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation with nonlocal spin-transfer torque in a finite difference micromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-29 Weiwei Wang , Zhaoyang Zhang , Ryan A. Pepper , Congpu Mu , Yan Zhou , Hans Fangohr