English
Related papers

Related papers: Electric-field-driven domain wall dynamics in perp…

200 papers

We theoretically study the antiferromagnetic domain wall motion actuated by an inhomogeneous external magnetic field. The Lagrangian and the equations of motion of antiferromagnetic spins under an inhomogeneous magnetic field are derived,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Jotaro J. Nakane , Hiroshi Kohno

The antiferromagnetic domain structure of a multiferroic has been investigated in the presence of a ferroelectric domain structure. It has been demonstrated that an inhomogeneous magnetoelectric (flexomagnetoelectric) interaction leads to…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-19 Z. V. Gareeva , A. K. Zvezdin

When subjected to electro-mechanical loading, ferroelectrics see their polarization evolve through the nucleation and evolution of domains. Existing mesoscale phase-field models for ferroelectrics are typically based on a gradient-descent…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-10 Laurent Guin , Dennis Kochmann

Interfacial ferroelectricity offers a promising platform for ultrafast, low-power memory devices. While previous studies have demonstrated the importance of domain wall in polarization switching, the coexistence of various domain wall types…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-24 Hao-Wen Xu , Wen-Cheng Fan , Jun-Ding Zheng , Cheng-Shi Yao , Ni Zhong , Wen-Yi Tong , Chun-Gang Duan

The orientation of a chiral magnetic domain wall in a racetrack determines its dynamical properties. In equilibrium, magnetic domain walls are expected to be oriented perpendicular to the stripe axis. We demonstrate the appearance of a…

Antiferromagnetic (AF) domain walls have recently attracted revived attention, not only in the emerging field of AF spintronics, but also more specifically for offering fast domain wall velocities and dynamic excitations up to the terahertz…

The quantitative understanding of converse magnetoelectric effects, i.e., the variation of the magnetization as a function of an applied electric field, in extrinsic multiferroic hybrids is a key prerequisite for the development of future…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-09-23 S. Geprägs , D. Mannix , M. Opel , S. T. B. Goennenwein , R. Gross

A well-known feature of magnetic field driven dynamics of domain walls in ferromagnets is the existence of a threshold driving force at which the internal magnetization of the domain wall starts to precess -- a phenomenon known as the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-27 Johanna Hütner , Touko Herranen , Lasse Laurson

Ferroelectric domain walls are quasi-2D systems that show great promise for the development of non-volatile memory, memristor technology and electronic components with ultra-small feature size. Electric fields, for example, can change the…

Materials with long-range order like ferromagnetism or ferroelectricity exhibit uniform, yet differently oriented three-dimensional regions called domains that are separated by two-dimensional topological defects termed domain…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-13 E. Hassanpour , M. C. Weber , A. Bortis , Y. Tokunaga , Y. Taguchi , Y. Tokura , A. Cano , Th. Lottermoser , M. Fiebig

We present low temperature magnetoresistance measurements of Ar-irradiated SrTiO3 under an applied electrostatic field. The electric field, applied through a back gate bias, modulates both the mobility and sheet density, with a greater…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-09-16 J. H. Ngai , Y. Segal , F. J. Walker , S. Ismail-Beigi , K. Le Hur , C. H. Ahn

We theoretically study domain wall motion induced by an electric field in the quantum anomalous Hall states on a two-dimensional Kagome lattice with ferromagnetic order and spin-orbit coupling. We show that an electric charge is accumulated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 Sehoon Kim , Daichi Kurebayashi , Kentaro Nomura

We report on the controlled switching of domain wall (DW) magnetization in aligned stripe domain structures, stabilized in [Co (0.44 nm)/Pt (0.7 nm)]$_X$ ($X = 48$, 100, 150) multilayers with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. The switching…

The control of the in-plane domain evolution in ferroelectric thin films is not only critical to understanding ferroelectric phenomena but also to enabling functional device fabrication. However, in-plane polarized ferroelectric thin films…

We have studied nucleation of magnetic domains and propagation of magnetic domain walls (DWs) induced by pulsed magnetic field in a ferromagnetic film with in-plane uniaxial anisotropy. Different from what have been seen up to now in…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-30 Xiaochao Zhou , Nicolas Vernier , Guillaume Agnus , Sylvain Eimer , Ya Zhai

Magnetic domain walls are topological solitons whose internal structure is set by competing energies which sculpt them. In common ferromagnets, domain walls are known to be of either Bloch or N\'eel types. Little is established in the case…

Magnetic domain walls, which are crucially important in both fundamental physics and technical applications, often have a preference in their form due to many different origins, such as the crystalline shape, lattice symmetry, and magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-09-20 Ryo Ozawa , Satoru Hayami , Kipton Barros , Yukitoshi Motome

Perovskite ferroelectric oxides are usually considered to be brittle materials, however, recent work [Dong et al., Science 366, 475 (2019)] demonstrated the super-elasticity in the freestanding BaTiO3 thin films. This property may originate…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-04-15 Changqing Guo , Guohua Dong , Ziyao Zhou , Ming Liu , Houbing Huang , Jiawang Hong , Xueyun Wang

We demonstrate here that ultrathin ferromagnetic Pt/Co/Pt films with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy exhibit a sizeable Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) effect. Such a DMI effect modifies the domain-wall (DW) energy density and…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-04-25 Soong-Geun Je , Duck-Ho Kim , Sang-Cheol Yoo , Byoung-Chul Min , Kyung-Jin Lee , Sug-Bong Choe

We theoretically investigate dynamics of antiferromagnetic domain walls driven by spin-orbit torques in antiferromagnet/heavy metal bilayers. We show that spin-orbit torques drive antiferromagnetic domain walls much faster than…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-24 Takayuki Shiino , Se-Hyeok Oh , Paul M. Haney , Seo-Won Lee , Gyungchoon Go , Byong-Guk Park , Kyung-Jin Lee