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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

We present a theoretical study of spin-dependent transport through a ferromagnetic domain wall. With an increase of the number of components of the exchange coupling, we have observed that the variance of the conductance becomes half. As…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 J. Ohe , M. Yamamoto , T. Ohtsuki , K. Slevin

The conductive domain wall (CDW) is extensively investigated in ferroelectrics, which can be considered as a quasi-two-dimensional reconfigurable conducting channel embedded into an insulating material. Therefore, it is highly important for…

It has been shown previously that the presence of a Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in perpendicularly magnetized thin films stabilizes N\'eel type domain walls. We demonstrate, using micromagnetic simulations and analytical modeling,…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-09-22 Kévin J. A. Franke , Colin Ophus , Andreas K. Schmid , Christopher H. Marrows

We propose a new type of multi-bit and energy-efficient magnetic memory based on current-driven, field-free, and highly controlled domain wall motion. A meandering domain wall channel with precisely interspersed pinning regions provides the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Pengxiang Zhang , Wilfried Haensch , Charudatta M. Phatak , Supratik Guha

We investigate experimentally the effects of externally applied strain on the injection of 180$^\circ$ domain walls (DW) from a nucleation pad into magnetic nanowires, as typically used for DW-based sensors. In our study the strain,…

Domain wall motion along ferrimagnets is evaluated using micromagnetic simulations and a collective-coordinates model, both considering two sublattices with independent parameters. Analytical expressions are derived for strips on top of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-11-20 Eduardo Martínez , Víctor Raposo , Óscar Alejos

Antiferromagnets (AFMs) have great benefits for spintronic applications such as high frequencies (up to THz), high speeds (up to tens of km/s) of magnetic excitations, and field-free operation. Advanced devices will require high-speed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-25 Roman V. Ovcharov , B. A. Ivanov , Johan Åkerman , Roman S. Khymyn

The electrical conductivity of parallel plate capacitors, with ferroelectric lithium niobate as the dielectric layer, can be extensively and progressively modified by the controlled injection of conducting domain walls. Domain wall-based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-27 Conor J. McCluskey , James Dalzell , Amit Kumar , J. Marty Gregg

Ferroelectric domain walls are attracting broad attention as atomic-scale switches, diodes and mobile wires for next-generation nanoelectronics. Charged domain walls in improper ferroelectrics are particularly interesting as they offer…

We present a field theoretical model which allows for domain walls that do not get stuck on impurities. For this purpose, we consider a generalized chiral magnet domain wall action with an impurity which couples both to a potential term as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-21 C. Adam , K. Oles , T. Romanczukiewicz , A. Wereszczynski

Micromagnetic simulation is carried out to investigate the current-driven domain wall (DW) in a nanowire with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA). A stepped nanowire is proposed to pin DW and achieve high information storage capacity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 S. Al Risi , R. Sbiaa , M. Al Bahri

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

We demonstrate from both simulation and experiment a simple scheme for selective injection of multiple domain walls in a magnetic nanowire. The structure consists of a side-contact misaligned Hall bar made of ferromagnet/heavy metal…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-11-22 Ziyan Luo , Wugang Liao , Yumeng Yang , Chunxiang Zhu , Yihong Wu

The coupling between a current and a domain wall is examined. In the presence of a finite current and the absence of a potential which breaks the translational symmetry, there is a perfect transfer of angular momentum from the conduction…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 S. E. Barnes , S. Maekawa

We study the effect of a domain wall on the electronic transport in ferromagnetic quantum wires. Due to the transverse confinement, conduction channels arise. In the presence of a domain wall, spin up and spin down electrons in these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Victor A. Gopar , Dietmar Weinmann , Rodolfo A. Jalabert , Robert L. Stamps

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

We develop the theory of magnetic domain wall motion in coupled double-layer systems where electrons can hop between the layers giving rise to an antiferromagnetic coupling. We demonstrate that the force from the interlayer coupling drives…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-26 Henri Saarikoski , Hiroshi Kohno , Christopher H. Marrows , Gen Tatara

We propose a Hamiltonian dynamics formalism for the current and magnetic field driven dynamics of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic domain walls in one dimensional systems. To demonstrate the power of this formalism, we derive Hamilton…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-12 Davi R. Rodrigues , Karin Everschor-Sitte , Oleg A. Tretiakov , Jairo Sinova , Ar. Abanov

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