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Ferroelectric materials are spontaneous symmetry breaking systems characterized by ordered electric polarizations. Similar to its ferromagnetic counterpart, a ferroelectric domain wall can be regarded as a soft interface separating two…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-06 Gongzheng Chen , Jin Lan , Tai Min , Jiang Xiao

We present a theoretical study of spin-wave scattering by a twisted domain wall (DW) in a two-dimensional ferromagnet with easy-axis anisotropy. While the twisted DW generates an effective gauge field for spin waves, leading to a deflection…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-15 Ehsan Faridi , Se Kwon Kim , Giovanni Vignale

We report on the direct observation of spin wave and elastic wave emission from magnetic domain walls in ferromagnetic thin films. Driven by alternating homogeneous magnetic fields the magnetic domain walls act as coherent magnetisation…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-06-08 Rasmus B. Holländer , Cai Müller , Jeffrey McCord

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

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

We report the nanoscale electrical imaging results in hexagonal $Lu_{0.6}Sc_{0.4}FeO_3$ single crystals using conductive atomic force microscopy (C-AFM) and scanning microwave impedance microscopy (MIM). While the dc and ac response of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-28 Xiaoyu Wu , Kai Du , Lu Zheng , Di Wu , Sang-Wook Cheong , Keji Lai

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

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 theoretically discover possible emergence of reentrant Walker breakdowns for current-driven domain walls in layered antiferromagnets in striking contrast to the unique Walker breakdown in ferromagnets. We reveal that the Lorentz…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-24 Mu-Kun Lee , Rubén M. Otxoa , Masahito Mochizuki

Ultra-dense domain walls are increasingly important for many devices but their microscopic properties are so far not fully understood. Here we use molecular dynamic simulations to study the domain wall stability in the prototypical…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-06 Arne J. Klomp , Ruben Khachaturyan , Theophilus Wallis , Anna Grünebohm , Karsten Albe

We examine theoretically the role of spin-waves on current-induced domain wall dynamics in a ferromagnetic wire. At room temperature, we find that an interaction between the domain wall and the spin waves appears when there is a finite…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Yann Le Maho , Joo Von Kim , Gen Tatara

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

The ultrafast magnetic dynamics in compensated ferrimagnets not only provides information similar to antiferromagnetic dynamics, but more importantly opens new opportunities for future spintronic devices [Kim et al., Nat. Mater. 16, 1187…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 W. H. Li , Z. Jin , D. L. Wen , X. M. Zhang , M. H. Qin , J. M. Liu

We present a general approach for studying the dynamics of domain walls in biaxial ferromagnetic stripes with functionally graded Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). By engineering the spatial profile of the DMI parameter we propose…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-24 Kostiantyn V. Yershov , Volodymyr P. Kravchuk , Denis D. Sheka , Jeroen van den Brink , Avadh Saxena

Ultrathin metallic ferromagnets on substrates with strong spin-orbit coupling can exhibit induced chiral interactions of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) form. For systems with perpendicular anisotropy, the presence of DM interactions has…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-06-17 Felipe Garcia-Sanchez , Pablo Borys , Arne Vansteenkiste , Joo-Von Kim , Robert L. Stamps

Despite multiple efforts, there exist many unsolved fundamental problems related with detection and analysis of internal polarization structure and related phase transitions in ferroelectric domain walls. Their solution can be very…

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

Domain walls in ferroelectrics exhibit a plethora of phases and functionalities not found in the bulk. The interplay of electrostatic, chemical, topological, and distortive inhomogeneities at the walls can be so complex, however, that this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-23 Gabriele De Luca , Marta D. Rossell , Jakob Schaab , Nathalie Viart , Manfred Fiebig , Morgan Trassin

Switching in magnetic materials gives rise to rich physical phenomena and lies at the heart of their technological applications. Although domain wall motion in ferro- and antiferromagnets has been studied, in spiral magnets it is still…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-19 Francesco Foggetti , Margherita Parodi , Naoto Nagaosa , Sergey Artyukhin

Current-induced domain wall (DW) displacements in an array of ultrathin Pt/Co/AlOx wires with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy have been directly observed by wide field Kerr microscopy. DWs in all wires in the array were driven…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 T. A. Moore , I. M. Miron , G. Gaudin , G. Serret , S. Auffret , B. Rodmacq , A. Schuhl , S. Pizzini , J. Vogel , M. Bonfim