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We investigate the effect of curvature on the energy and stability of domain wall configurations in curved cylindrical nanotubes and nanowires. We use micromagnetic simulations to calculate the phase diagram for the transverse wall (TW) and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-22 L. Skoric , C. Donnelly , C. Abert , A. Hierro-Rodriguez , D. Suess , A. Fernández-Pacheco

The recent observation of current-induced domain wall (DW) motion with large velocity in ultrathin magnetic wires has opened new opportunities for spintronic devices. However, there is still no consensus on the underlying mechanisms of DW…

A domain wall (DW) in a ferromagnetic nanowire is composed of elementary topological bulk and edge defects with integer and fractional winding numbers, respectively, whose relative spatial arrangement determines the chirality of the DW.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-08 Aakash Pushp , Timothy Phung , Charles Rettner , Brian P. Hughes , See-Hun Yang , Luc Thomas , Stuart S. P. Parkin

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

Transverse domain wall (TDW) dynamics in long and narrow spin valves with perpendicular current injection is theoretically investigated. We demonstrate that stable traveling-wave motion of TDWs with finite velocity survives for strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 Mei Li , Zhong An , Jie Lu

Magnetic domain walls (DWs) in nanostructures are low-dimensional objects that separate regions with uniform magnetisation. Since they can have different shapes and widths, DWs are an exciting playground for fundamental research, and became…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-17 V. D. Nguyen , O. Fruchart , S. Pizzini , J. Vogel , J. -C. Toussaint , N. Rougemaille

The domain wall nucleation and motion processes in Permalloy nanowires with a thickness gradient along the nanowire axis have been studied. Nanowires with widths, w = 250 nm to 3 um and a base thickness of t = 10 nm were fabricated by…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 O. Petracic , P. Szary , H. Zabel , D. Goerlitz , K. Nielsch

We develop a systematic asymptotic description for domain wall motion in one-dimensional magnetic nanowires under the influence of small applied magnetic fields and currents and small material anisotropy. The magnetization dynamics, as…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-10-17 Arseni Goussev , Ross G. Lund , JM Robbins , Valeriy Slastikov , Charles Sonnenberg

Current-induced domain wall (DW) motion has drawn great attention in the last decades as the key operational principle of emerging magnetic memory devices. As the major driving force of the current-induced DW motion, the spin-orbit torque…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-04-26 Soong-Geun Je , Sang-Cheol Yoo , Joo-Sung Kim , Joon Moon , Byoung-Chul Min , Sug-Bong Choe

We study field-driven magnetic domain wall dynamics in garnet strips by large-scale three-dimensional micromagnetic simulations. The domain wall propagation velocity as a function of the applied field exhibits a low-field linear part…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-10-20 Touko Herranen , Lasse Laurson

The spin wave transportation through a transverse magnetic domain wall (DW) in a magnetic nanowire is studied. It is found that spin wave passes through a DW without reflection. A magnon, the quantum of the spin wave, carries opposite spins…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-24 P. Yan , X. S. Wang , X. R. Wang

We present an enhanced diffusion of nuclear spin polarization in fractional quantum Hall domain phases at $\nu = 2/3$. Resistively-detected NMR mediated by electrically driven domain-wall motion is used as a probe of local nuclear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-24 S. Miyamoto , T. Hatano , S. Watanabe , Y. Hirayama

Thermally activated domain-wall (DW) motion driven by magnetic field and electric current is investigated experimentally in out-of-plane magnetized Pt(Co/Pt)$_3$ multilayers. We directly extract the thermal activation energy barrier for DW…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-11-21 Satoru Emori , Chinedum K. Umachi , David C. Bono , Geoffrey S. D. Beach

We study theoretically domain wall (DW) magnons-elementary collective excitations of magnetic DWs -- in easy-axis layered van der Waals (vdW) antiferromagnets, where they behave as normal modes of coupled spin superfluids. We uncover that,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-02 Mohammad Mushfiqur Rahman , Avinash Rustagi , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Pramey Upadhyaya

In this work, we study the antiferromagnetic (AFM) spin dynamics in heterostructures which consist of two kinds of AFM layers. Our micromagnetic simulations demonstrate that the AFM domain-wall (DW) can be driven by the other one (driven by…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 Y. L. Zhang , Z. Y. Chen , Z. R. Yan , D. Y. Chen , Z. Fan , M. H. Qin

It is known that oscillatory domain-wall (DW) motions in soft magnetic thin-film nanostripes above the Walker critical field lead to a remarkable reduction in the average DW velocities. In a much-higher-field region beyond the…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-02-03 Sang-Koog Kim , Jun-Young Lee , Youn-Seok Choi , Konstantin Yu. Guslienko , Ki-Suk Lee

The dynamics of transverse Neel domain wall in a ferromagnetic nanostrip in the presence of driving field, current and transverse magnetic field is investigated by the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert(LLG) equation with the adiabatic and…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-19 R. Arun , P. Sabareesan , M. Daniel

The influence of gate voltage, temperature and magnetic field on domain wall (DW) creep dynamics is investigated in Pt/Co/GdOx films with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and imaged by a scanning magneto-optical Kerr effect technique. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-10-25 Uwe Bauer , Satoru Emori , Geoffrey S. D. Beach

Ferroelectric domain walls (DWs) are nanoscale topological defects that can be easily tailored to create nanoscale devices. Their excitations, recently discovered to be responsible for DW GHz conductivity, hold promise for faster signal…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-31 Peng Chen , Louis Ponet , Keji Lai , Roberto Cingolani , Sergey Artyukhin

A major challenge in spintronics is to find an efficient means to manipulate antiferromagnet (AFM) states, which are inert relative to a uniform magnetic field, due to the vanishingly-small net magnetization. The question is, how does an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 H. Y. Yuan , Weiwei Wang , Man-Hong Yung , X. R. Wang