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We investigate current-driven domain wall (DW) propagation in magnetic nanowires in the framework of the modified Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation with both adiabatic and nonadiabatic spin torque (NAST) terms. Contrary to the common opinion…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-18 Z. Z. Sun , J. Schliemann , P. Yan , X. R. Wang

The interaction between the propagating spin waves and the current driven motion of a transverse domain wall in magnetic nanowires is studied by micromagnetic simulations. If the speed of domain walls due to current induced spin transfer…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-03-25 Mahdi Jamali , Hyunsoo Yang , Kyung-Jin Lee

Two types of domain walls exist in magnetically soft cylindrical nanowires: the transverse-vortex wall (TVW) and the Bloch-point wall (BPW). The latter is expected to prevent the usual Walker breakdown, and thus enable high domain wall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 A. De Riz , J. Hurst , M. Schöbitz , C. Thirion , J. Bachmann , J. C. Toussaint , O. Fruchart , D. Gusakova

Experimental measurements of domain wall propagation are typically interpreted by comparison to reduced models that ignore both the effects of disorder and the internal dynamics of the domain wall structure. Using micromagnetic simulations,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-27 Hongki Min , Robert D. McMichael , Michael J. Donahue , Jacques Miltat , M. D. Stiles

The issue of whether a thermal gradient acts like a magnetic field or an electric current in the domain wall (DW) dynamics is investigated. Broadly speaking, magnetization control knobs can be classified as energy-driving or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 M. T. Islam , X. S. Wang , X. R. Wang

We have investigated numerically the field-driven propagation of perpendicularly magnetized ferromagnetic layers. It was then compared to the historical one-dimensional domain wall (DW) propagation model widely used in spintronics studies…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-03-01 L. Thevenard , C. Gourdon , S. Haghgoo , J-P. Adam , H. J. von Bardeleben , A. Lemaître , W. Schoch , A. Thiaville

We investigated how the dynamics of a domain wall are affected by the presence of spin density waves in a ferromagnetic wire. Domain walls and other scattering centres can cause coherent spin density waves to propagate through a wire when a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-19 Nicholas Sedlmayr , Vitalii Dugaev , Jamal Berakdar

Understanding the domain wall (DW) dynamics in magnetic nanowires (NW) is crucial for spintronic-based applications demanding the use of DWs as information carriers. This work focuses on the dynamics of a DW displacing along a bent NW with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 G. H. R. Bittencourt , S. Castillo-Sepúlveda , O. Chubykalo-Fesenko , R. Moreno , D. Altbir , V. L. Carvalho-Santos

Quantum interference incorporating spatially asymmetric potential profiles is realized experimentally to manipulate a magnetic domain wall (DW) into a single multilayered wire whose spacer has a thickness gradient for generating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Akinobu Yamaguchi , Tomoaki Kishimoto , Hideki Miyajima

We derive the complete expression of nonlocal damping in noncollinear magnetization due to the nonuniform spin current pumped by precessional magnetization and incorporate it into a generalized Thiele equation to study its effects on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-17 H. Y. Yuan , Zhe Yuan , Ke Xia , X. R. Wang

Dynamics of magnetization domain walls (DWs) in thin ferromagnetic nanotubes subject to longitudinal external fields is addressed analytically in the regimes of strong and weak penalization. Explicit functional forms of the DW profiles and…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-04-14 Arseni Goussev , JM Robbins , Valeriy Slastikov

The propagation of a domain wall in a submicron ferromagnetic spin-valve stripe is investigated using giant magnetoresistance. A notch in the stripe efficiently traps an injected wall stopping the domain propagation. The authors show that…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-04-02 J. Briones , F. Montaigne , Daniel Lacour , M. Hehn , M. J. Carey , J. R. Childress

Spin waves have the potential to be used as a new platform for data transfer and processing as they can reach wavelengths in the nanometer range and frequencies in the terahertz range. To realize a spin-wave device, it is essential to be…

The spin-transfer torque motion of magnetic domain walls (DWs) in a CoB/Ni-based nanowire driven by a low current density of (1.12\pm0.8)\times10^{11} A m^{-2} has been observed indirectly by magnetotransport measurements. A high DW…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-08-29 Duc-The Ngo , Norihito Watanabe , Hiroyuki Awano

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

We report on current induced domain wall propagation in a patterned GaMnAs microwire with perpendicular magnetization. An unexpected slowing down of the propagation velocity has been found when the moving domain wall extends over only half…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Nicolas Vernier , Jean-Paul Adam , Andre Thiaville , Vincent Jeudy , Aristide Lemaitre , Jacques Ferré , Giancarlo Faini

Current induced domain wall (DW) motion in perpendicularly magnetized nanostripes in the presence of spin orbit torques is studied. We show using micromagnetic simulations that the direction of the current induced DW motion and the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-17 O. Boulle , L. D. Buda-Prejbeanu , E. Jué , I. M. Miron , G. Gaudin

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

The current-driven motion of magnetic domain walls (DWs) is the working principle of magnetic racetrack memories. In this type of spintronic technology, high current densities are used to propel DW motion in magnetic nanowires, causing…

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