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Spin-transfer torque (STT) and spin-orbit torque (SOT) are spintronic phenomena allowing magnetization manipulation using electrical currents. Beyond their fundamental interest, they allow developing new classes of magnetic memories and…

The motion of chiral magnetic domain walls (DWs) driven by spin-orbit torque (SOT) has been extensively studied in heavy metal/ferromagnet heterostructures with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. This study specifically focuses on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Nobuyuki Umetsu , Michael Quinsat , Susumu Hashimoto , Tsuyoshi Kondo , Masaki Kado

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

Understanding and manipulating nanoscale domain wall (DW) dynamics is a central topic in magnetism and spintronics for its promising applications in logic and memory devices. In most magnetic systems, inertia affects only transient DW…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 K. Y. Jing , X. R. Wang , H. Y. Yuan

Electric current exerts torques-so-called spin transfer torques (STTs)-on magnetic domain walls (DWs), resulting in DW motion. At low current densities, the STTs should compete against disorders in ferromagnetic nanowires but the nature of…

Shifting electrically a magnetic domain wall (DW) by the spin transfer mechanism is one of the future ways foreseen for the switching of spintronic memories or registers. The classical geometries where the current is injected in the plane…

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 report field- and current-induced domain wall (DW) depinning experiments in Ta/Co20Fe60B20/MgO nanowires through a Hall cross geometry. While purely field-induced depinning shows no angular dependence on in-plane fields, the effect of…

Antiferromagnetic materials are outstanding candidates for next generation spintronic applications, because their ultrafast spin dynamics makes it possible to realize several orders of magnitude higher-speed devices than conventional…

Spintronic devices, whose operation is based on the motion of a magnetic domain wall (DW), have been proposed recently. If a DW could be driven directly by flowing an electric current instead of a magnetic field, the performance and…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Akinobu Yamaguchi , Teruo Ono , Saburo Nasu , Kousaku Miyake , Ko Mibu , Teruya Shinjo

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

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

This work analyzes the propagation of a transverse domain wall (DW) motion under the action of an electric current along a nanowire (NW) with a curvature gradient. Our results evidence that the curvature gradient induces a chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-21 G. H. R. Bittencourt , M. Castro , A. S. Nunez , D. Altbir , S. Allende , V. L. Carvalho-Santos

The manipulation of magnetic properties using either electrical currents or gate bias is the key of future high-impact nanospintronics applications such as spin-valve read heads, non-volatile logic, and random-access memories. The current…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 R. C. Sahoo , Dinh Loc Duong , Jungbum Yoon , Pham Nam Hai , Young Hee Lee

Current-induced spin-transfer torques (STTs) have been studied in Fe, Co and Ni domain walls (DWs) by the method based on the first-principles noncollinear calculations of scattering wave functions expanded in the tight-binding linearized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-02 Ling Tang , Zhijun Xu , Zejin Yang

Spin-polarized electric current exerts torque on local magnetic spins, resulting in magnetic domain-wall (DW) motion in ferromagnetic nanowires. Such current-driven DW motion opens great opportunities toward next-generation magnetic devices…

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 predict high-velocity magnetic domain wall (DW) motion driven by out-of-plane acoustic spin in surface acoustic waves (SAWs). We demonstrate that the SAW propagating at a 30-degree angle relative to the x-axis of a 128-degree Y-LiNbO3…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-16 Jiacheng Lu , Fa Chen , Yiming Shu , Yukang Wen , Hang Zou , Yuhao Liu , Shiheng Liang , Wei Luo , Yue Zhang

Accurate quantification of the spin-orbit torques (SOTs) is critical for the identification and applications of new spin-orbitronic effects. One of the most popular techniques to qualify the SOTs is the switching angle shift, where the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-10 Xiaomiao Yin , Guanglei Han , Guowen Gong , Jun Kang , Changmin Xiong , Lijun Zhu

Current induced domain wall (DW) motion has been investigated in a 600-nm wide nanowire using multilayer film with a structure of Ta(5 nm)/Pd(5 nm)/[CoFe(0.4 nm)/Pd(1.2 nm)]$_{15}$/Ta(5 nm)in terms of anomalous Hall effect measurements. It…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-30 Zhaoliang Meng , Manoj Kumar , Jinjun Qiu , Guchang Han , Kie Leong Teo , Duc-The Ngo
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