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The motion of domain walls in ferromagnetic, cylindrical nanowires is investigated numerically by solving the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation for a classical spin model in which energy contributions from exchange, crystalline anisotropy,…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Wieser , U. Nowak , K. D. Usadel

The ability of an insulating solid to conduct heat is rarely effected by the application of a magnetic field. We have found, however, that the low temperature heat conduction of some solids increases by more than a factor of two with the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Sales , R. Jin , D. Mandrus

In this work, we study thermally-generated spin current in the system consisting of a quantum dot connected to two magnetic insulators. The external leads are kept at different temperatures which leads to an imbalance of magnon populations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-20 Emil Siuda , Piotr Trocha

Domain walls are the transition regions between two magnetic domains. These objects have been very relevant during the last decade, not only due to their intrinsic interest in the development of novel spintronics devices but also because of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 Oscar Alejos , Víctor Raposo , Eduardo Martínez

Domain wall propagation in cylindrical nanowires with modulations of diameter is a key phenomenon to design physics-oriented devices, or a disruptive three-dimensional magnetic memory. This chapter presents a combination of analytical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-16 A. De Riz , B. Trapp , J. A. Fernandez-Roldan , Ch. Thirion , J. -Ch. Toussaint , O. Fruchart , D. Gusakova

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

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

A domain wall in a ferromagnetic one-dimensional nanowire experiences current induced motion due to its coupling with the conduction electrons. When the current is not sufficient to drive the domain wall through the wire, or it is confined…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-13 Nicholas Sedlmayr , Jamal Berakdar

We carry out large-scale micromagnetic simulations which demonstrate that due to topological constraints, internal domain walls (Bloch lines) within extended domain walls are more robust than domain walls in nanowires. Thus, the possibility…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-09-17 Touko Herranen , Lasse Laurson

We study the dynamics of domain walls (DWs) in a metallic, ferromagnetic nanowire. We develop a Keldysh collective coordinate technique to describe the effect of conduction electrons on rigid magnetic structures. The effective Lagrangian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-05 Hilary M. Hurst , Victor Galitski , Tero T. Heikkilä

The dynamics of the low energy excitations in a ferromagnet is studied in case a temperature gradient is coupled to the local magnetization. Due to the different time scales of changing temperature and magnetization it is argued that only…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-26 Thomas Bose , Steffen Trimper

Thermoelectric effects in spintronics are gathering increasing attention as a means of managing heat in nanoscale structures and of controlling spin information by using heat flow. Thermal magnons (spin-wave quanta) are expected to play a…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-03-27 Marius V. Costache , German Bridoux , Ingmar Neumann , Sergio O. Valenzuela

In the last decades, collinear magnetic insulating systems have emerged as promising energy-saving information carriers. Their elementary collective spin excitations, i.e., magnons, can propagate for long distances bypassing the Joule…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Benedetta Flebus

We study, both analytically and numerically, a spinmotive force arising from inherent magnetic energy of a domain wall in a wedged ferromagnetic nanowire. In a spatially-nonuniform nanowire, domain walls are subjected to an effective…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-28 Yuta Yamane , Jun'ichi Ieda , Jun-ichiro Ohe , Stewart E. Barnes , Sadamichi Maekawa

Using density functional theory implemented within a tight-binding linear muffin-tin orbital method we perform calculations of electronic, magnetic and transport properties of ferromagnetic free-standing fcc Co wires with diameters up to…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 R. F. Sabirianov , A. K. Solanki , J. D. Burton , S. S. Jaswal , E. Y. Tsymbal

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

Spin waves (SW) can induce rich domain wall (DW) motion in a perpendicular-magnetic anisotropy nanostrip. In-plane magnetization tilt angle resulting from the fluctuation of the effective field of the magnetization response in the DW region…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-07-07 Liang-Juan Chang , Yen-Fu Liu , Ming-Yi Kao , Li-Zai Tsai , Jun-Zhi Liang , Shang-Fan Lee

We study the coupled magnon energy transport and collective magnetization dynamics in ferromagnets with magnetic textures. By constructing a phenomenological theory based on irreversible thermodynamics, we describe motion of domain walls by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-20 Alexey A. Kovalev , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

We study the Skyrmion dynamics in thin films under a temperature gradient. Our numerical simulations show that both single and multiple Skyrmions in a crystal move towards the high temperature region, which is contrary to particle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Lingyao Kong , Jiadong Zang

We present a theoretical study of spin-wave scattering by a twisted domain wall (DW) in a two-dimensional ferromagnet with easy-axis anisotropy. While the twisted DW generates an effective gauge field for spin waves, leading to a deflection…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-15 Ehsan Faridi , Se Kwon Kim , Giovanni Vignale