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This review describes in detail the essential techniques used in microscopic theories on spintronics. We have investigated the domain wall dynamics induced by electric current based on the $s$-$d$ exchange model. The domain wall is treated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-07 Gen Tatara , Hiroshi Kohno , Junya Shibata

Atomically sharp domain walls (DWs) in ferroelectrics are considered as an ideal platform to realize easy-to-reconfigure nanoelectronic building blocks, created, manipulated and erased by external fields. However, conductive DWs have been…

We study transport in the presence of magnetic domain walls (DWs) in a lattice model of ferromagnetic type-I Weyl metals. We compute the diagonal and Hall conductivities in the presence of a DW, using both Kubo and Landauer formalisms, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-19 Sopheak Sorn , Arun Paramekanti

Ferroelectric domain walls represent multifunctional 2D-elements with great potential for novel device paradigms at the nanoscale. Improper ferroelectrics display particularly promising types of domain walls, which, due to their unique…

We report on electronic transport measurements of electrostatically gated nano-devices of the semimetal WTe\textsubscript{2}. High mobility metallic behavior is achieved in the 2D limit by encapsulating thin flakes in an inert atmosphere.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Valla Fatemi , Quinn D. Gibson , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Robert J. Cava , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

The transmission of correlated electrons through a domain wall in a ferromagnetic one dimensional system is studied theoretically in the limit of a domain wall width smaller or comparable to the electron Fermi wavelength. The domain wall…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 M. A. N. Araujo , V. K. Dugaev , V. R. Vieira , J. Berakdar , J Barnas

Magnetic systems based on the manipulation of domain walls (DWs) in nano-tracks have been shown to store data at high density, perform complex logic operations, and mechanically manipulate magnetic beads. The magnetic track has been a model…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-03-21 Joao Sampaio

We investigate magnetic domain wall (MDW) dynamics induced by applied electric fields in ferromagnetic-ferroelectric thin-film heterostructures. In contrast to conventional driving mechanisms where MDW motion is induced directly by magnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-01-17 Ben Van de Wiele , Lasse Laurson , Kévin Franke , Sebastiaan van Dijken

Electric control of multiple domain walls (DWs) motion is demonstrated by Pt/Co/Pt nanotracks with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. Due to the weak microstructural disorders with small DW propagation field, the purely current-driven DW…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Kab-Jin Kim , Jae-Chul Lee , Sang-Jun Yun , Gi-Hong Gim , Kang-Soo Lee , Sug-Bong Choe , Kyung-Ho Shin

The three-dimensional (3D) topological insulators (TIs), hosting topologically protected helical surface states, can be promoted into second-order TIs when a diagonal Zeeman term, typical of magnetic doping, is introduced. The latter hosts…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Zhe Hou , Ai-Min Guo

Domain walls are the topological defects that mediate polarization reversal in ferroelectrics, and they may exhibit quite different geometric and electronic structures compared to the bulk. Therefore, a detailed atomic-scale understanding…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-01-12 Meng Ye , David Vanderbilt

Domain walls are the transition regions between two magnetic domains. These objects have been very relevant during the last decade, not only due to their intrinsic interest in the development of novel spintronics devices but also because of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 Oscar Alejos , Víctor Raposo , Eduardo Martínez

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

Recent studies demonstrate that an individual magnetic domain wall (DW) can be trapped and reproducibly positioned within multiterminal (Ga,Mn)As microdevices. The electrical resistance obtained from such measurements is found to be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Hongxing Tang , Michael L. Roukes

We study the transport on the domain wall (DW) in a magnetic topological insulator. The low-energy behaviors of the magnetic topological insulator are dominated by the chiral edge states (CESs). Here, we find that the spectrum and transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-31 Yan-Feng Zhou , Zhe Hou , Qing-Feng Sun

Interface physics in oxide heterostructures is pivotal in material's science. Domain walls (DWs) in ferroic systems are examples of naturally occurring interfaces, where order parameter of neighboring domains is modified and emerging…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-08 Josep Fontcuberta , Vassil Skumryev , Vladimir Laukhin , Xavier Granados , Ekhard K. H. Salje

Sliding ferroelectrics constructed from stacked nonpolar monolayers enable out-of-plane polarization in two dimensions with exceptional properties, including ultrafast switching speeds and fatigue-free behavior. However, the widely accepted…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-04 Changming Ke , Fucai Liu , Shi Liu

We present a first-principles study of model domain walls (DWs) in prototypic ferroelectric PbTiO3. At high temperature the DW structure is somewhat trivial, with atoms occupying high- symmetry positions. However, upon cooling the DW…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-06-24 Jacek C. Wojdel , Jorge Iniguez

The magnetic textures of Weyl semimetals are embedded into their topological structure and interact dynamically with it. Here, we examine electric field-induced structural phase transitions in domain walls mediated by the spin transfer…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-20 Shiva Heidari , Reza Asgari , Dimitrie Culcer

Nonreciprocal dissipationless transport has long been sought for applications in superconducting technologies. Recently, it has been implemented by the so called superconducting diode effect. Such effect arises from an imbalance in critical…