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Antiferromagnets offer remarkable promise for future spintronics devices, where antiferromagnetic order is exploited to encode information. The control and understanding of antiferromagnetic domain walls (DWs) - the interfaces between…

Cylindrical nanowires made of soft magnetic materials, in contrast to thin strips, may host domain walls of two distinct topologies. Unexpectedly, we evidence experimentally the dynamic transformation of topology upon wall motion above a…

We formulate a theory on the dynamics of conduction electrons in the presence of moving magnetic textures in ferromagnetic materials. We show that the variation of local magnetization in both space and time gives rise to topological fields,…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-03-12 Shengyuan A. Yang , Di Xiao , Qian Niu

We perform real-space imaging of propagating magnetic domains in the fractional quantum Hall system using spin-sensitive photoluminescence microscopy. The propagation is continuous and proceeds in the direction of the conventional current,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 John N. Moore , Junichiro Hayakawa , Takaaki Mano , Takeshi Noda , Go Yusa

The nonreciprocal propagation of spin waves (SWs) offers opportunities for developing novel functional magnonic logic devices, where controllability is crucial for magnetic signal processing. Domain walls act as natural waveguides due to…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-30 Tingting Liu , Shuhong Li , Yunlong Liu , Shuchao Qin , Yang Liu , Wenjun Wang , Minghui Qin

Current-driven domain wall (DW) motion in magnetic wires with asymmetric notches was investigated by means of magnetic force microscopy. It was found that the critical current density necessary for the current-driven DW motion depended on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Himeno , S. Kasai , T. Ono

In order to address many of the challenges and bottlenecks currently experienced by traditional charge based technologies, various alternatives are being actively explored to provide potential solutions of device miniaturization and scaling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-03 Xiangjun Xing , Philip W. T. Pong , Yan Zhou

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…

We present an analytical calculation of the velocity of a single 180 degree domain wall in a magnetic structure with reduced thickness and/or lateral dimension under the combined action of an external applied magnetic field and an…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-07-26 A. Mougin , M. Cormier , J. P. Adam , P. J. Metaxas , J. Ferre

Curvilinear geometries in magnetic nanostructures provide a unique platform for exploring the interplay of symmetry, topology, and curvature in magnetization dynamics. In this work, we analytically study the static and dynamic properties of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Kostiantyn V. Yershov , Svitlana Kondovych , Denis D. Sheka

We investigate the inversion process of magnetic domain walls (DWs) propagating through synthetic noncollinear magnetic textures, whereby an up/down DW can be transformed into a down/up DW and vice versa. We exploit the lateral coupling…

We demonstrate deterministic control of dipole-field-stabilized skyrmions by means of spin-orbit torques arising from heavy transition-metal seed layers. Experiments are performed on amorphous Fe/Gd multilayers that are patterned into wires…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-17 Sergio A. Montoya , Robert Tolley , Ian Gilbert , Soong-Geun Je , Mi-Young Im , Eric E. Fullerton

Topological defects in magnetism have attracted great attention due to fundamental research interests and potential novel spintronics applications. Rich examples of topological defects can be found in nanoscale non-uniform spin textures,…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-10-11 Siying Huang , Chao Zhou , Gong Chen , Hongyi Shen , Andreas K. Schmid , Kai Liu , Yizheng Wu

We predict a fast domain wall (DW) motion induced by a thermal gradient across a nanoscopic ferromagnetic stripe of MnBi. The driving mechanism is an exchange torque fueled by magnon accumulation at the DWs. Depending on the thickness of…

We report current-induced domain wall motion (CIDWM) in Ta\Co20Fe60B20\MgO nanowires. Domain walls are observed to move against the electron flow when no magnetic field is applied, while a field along the nanowires strongly affects the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 R. Lo Conte , E. Martinez , A. Hrabec , A. Lamperti , T. Schulz , L. Nasi , L. Lazzarini , F. Maccherozzi , S. S. Dhesi , B. Ocker , C. H. Marrows , T. A. Moore , M. Klaeui

Spinful superfluids of ultracold atoms are ideal for investigating the intrinsic properties of spin current and texture because they are realized in an isolated, nondissipative system free from impurities, dislocations, and thermal…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-02-09 Hiromitsu Takeuchi

The generation of topologically non-trivial magnetic configurations has been a pivotal topic in both basic and applied nanomagnetism research. Localized non-coplanar magnetic defects such as skyrmions or merons were found to interact…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-13 Reiner Brüning , Levente Rózsa , Roberto Lo Conte , André Kubetzka , Roland Wiesendanger , Kirsten von Bergmann

We perform a study of domain walls in Co/Ir$_n$/Pt(111) (n = 0,1,...,6) films by a combined approach of first-principles calculations and spin dynamics simulations. We determine the tensorial exchange interactions and the magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Gy. J. Vida , E. Simon , L. Rózsa , K. Palotás , L. Szunyogh

Domain walls in soft permalloy strips may exhibit various equilibrium micromagnetic structures depending on the width and thickness of the strip, ranging from the well-known transverse and vortex walls in narrow and thin strips to double…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Virginia Estevez , Lasse Laurson

Magnetic skyrmions are topological spin textures that appear in magnets with broken spatial inversion symmetry via competition between the (anti)ferromagnetic exchange interactions and the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions in a magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-14 Yuto Ohki , Masahito Mochizuki