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Current-induced domain wall motion in the presence of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) is experimentally and theoretically investigated in heavy-metal/ferromagnet bilayers. The angular dependence of the current-induced torque and…

The effect of damping-like spin-orbit torque (DL SOT) on magnetic domain walls (DWs) in in-plane magnetised soft tracks is studied analytically and with micromagnetic simulations. We find that DL SOT drives vortex DWs, whereas transverse…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-02 Ryuhei Kohno , João Sampaio , Stanislas Rohart , André Thiaville

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

An experimental study of current-induced magnetization reversal of the Ru/Co/Ru and Ru/Co/Ru/W structures was carried out. In the considered structures, due to the small value of the coercive force comparable in magnitude to the Oersted…

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Spin waves are perturbations in the relative orientation of magnetic moments in a continuous magnetic system, which have been proposed as a new kind of information carrier for spin-based low power applications. For this purpose, a major…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-20 Michele Voto , Luis Lopez-Diaz , Eduardo Martinez

Magnetic domain-walls (DWs) with a preferred chirality exhibit very efficient current-driven motion. Since structural inversion asymmetry (SIA) is required for their stability, the observation of chiral domain walls in highly symmetric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-14 Jeroen H. Franken , Mark Herps , Henk J. M. Swagten , Bert Koopmans

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 represent the results of micromagnetic modeling and experimental magnetic force microscopy investigations of domain wall (DW) pinning-depinning effects in the hybrid systems consisting of ferromagnetic nanowire (NW) and two ferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-21 V. L. Mironov , O. L. Ermolaeva , E. V. Skorohodov , A. Yu. Klimov

Domain-wall skyrmions (DWSKs) are topological spin textures confined within domain walls that have recently attracted significant attention due to their potential applications in racetrack memory technologies. In this study, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-09 Haoyang Nie , Zhixiong Li , Xiansi Wang , Zhenyu Wang

In most ferromagnets the magnetization rotates from one domain to the next with no preferred handedness. However, broken inversion symmetry can lift the chiral degeneracy, leading to topologically-rich spin textures such as spin-spirals and…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-01-29 Satoru Emori , Uwe Bauer , Sung-Min Ahn , Eduardo Martinez , Geoffrey S. D. Beach

This review describes in detail the essential techniques used in microscopic theories on spintronics. We have investigated the domain wall dynamics induced by electric current based on the $s$-$d$ exchange model. The domain wall is treated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-07 Gen Tatara , Hiroshi Kohno , Junya Shibata

We investigate the dynamics of domain wall in ferromagnetic nanowire with spin-transfer torque. The critical current condition is obtained analytically. Below the critical current, we get the static domain wall solution which shows that the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-12-30 Zai-Dong Li , Qiu-Yan Li , X. R. Wang , W. M. Liu , J. Q. Liang , Guangsheng Fu

Spin-orbit torques promise ultra-efficient magnetization switching used for advanced devices based on emergent quasi-particles such as domain walls and skyrmions. Recently, the spin structure dynamics, materials and systems with tailored…

Domain-wall (DW) motion in magnetic nanostrips is intensively studied, in particular because of the possible applications in data storage. In this work, we will investigate a novel method of DW motion using magnetic field pulses, with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-30 M. J. G. Peeters , F. C. Ummelen , M. L. M. Lalieu , J. -S. Kim , H. J. M. Swagten , B. Koopmans

The dynamics of current-induced motion of a magnetic domain wall in a quasi-one-dimensional ferromagnet with both easy-axis and easy-plane anisotropy, is studied. We pay a special attention to the case of a sharp domain wall, and calculate…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 V. K. Dugaev , V. R. Vieira , P. D. Sacramento , J. Barnas , M. A. N. Araujo , J. Berakdar

The domain wall motion in a magnetic nanowire is examined theoretically in the regime where the domain wall driving force is weak and its competition against disorders is assisted by thermal agitations. Two types of driving forces are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-06 Jisu Ryu , Sug-Bong Choe , Hyun-Woo Lee

Current-driven domain wall (DW) motion is investigated in Pt/Co/GdOx nanostrips with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. Measurements of the propagation field and the energy barrier for thermally activated DW motion reveal a large…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-07-27 Satoru Emori , David C. Bono , Geoffrey S. D. Beach

Motivated by the importance of understanding competing mechanisms to current-induced spin-orbit torque in complex magnets, we develop a unified theory of current-induced spin-orbital coupled dynamics. The theory describes angular momentum…

We report the results of experimental investigations of controlled domain wall (DW) pinning in a ferromagnetic nanowire (NW) by stray fields of two uniformly magnetized bistable ferromagnetic nanoparticles (NPs) placed on either side of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 V. L. Mironov , O. L. Ermolaeva , E. V. Skorohodov

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