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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

Spin waves (or magnons) interact with magnetic domain walls (DWs) in a complicated way that a DW can propagate either along or against magnon flow. However, thermally activated magnons always drive a DW to the hotter region of a nanowire of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 X. S. Wang , X. R. Wang

We present a circuit model to describe the electron transport through a domain wall in a ferromagnetic nanowire. The domain wall is treated as a coherent 4-terminal device with incoming and outgoing channels of spin up and down and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter E. Falloon , Rodolfo A. Jalabert , Dietmar Weinmann , Robert L. Stamps

Antiferromagnetic materials are promising platforms for the development of ultra-fast spintronics and magnonics due to their robust magnetism, high-frequency relativistic dynamics, low-loss transport, and the ability to support topological…

We present the theory of the spin motive force in antiferromagnets. We consider a one-dimensional antiferromagnetic domain wall strongly coupled with conduction electrons via an exchange interaction. We carry out a unitary transformation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-16 Akira Okabayashi , Takao Morinari

Domain walls in antiferromagnets under a spin-polarized current present dynamical behavior that is not observed in ferromagnets, and it is tunable by the current polarization. Precessional dynamics is obtained for perpendicular spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-02 George Theodorou , Stavros Komineas

Antiferromagnets as active elements of spintronics can be faster than their ferromagnetic counterparts and more robust to magnetic noise. Owing to the strongly exchange-coupled magnetic sublattice structure, antiferromagnetic order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-31 Olena Gomonay , Vincent Baltz , Arne Brataas , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

In an antiferromagnet (AF) with uniaxial anisotropy, spin-up and spin-down magnons coexist and form an intrinsic degree of freedom resembling electrons. When polarized by an adjacent ferromagnet (F), a magnonic pure spin current can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-25 Ran Cheng , Di Xiao , Jian-Gang Zhu

Spin-orbit-torque-driven dynamics have recently gained interest in the field of magnetism due to the reduced requirement of current densities and an increase in efficiency, as well as the ease of implementation of different devices and…

The current-driven domain wall motion along two exchange-coupled ferromagnetic layers with perpendicular anisotropy is studied by means of micromagnetic simulations and compared to the conventional case of a single ferromagnetic layer. Our…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 Oscar Alejos , Victor Raposo , Luis Sanchez-Tejerina , Riccardo Tomasello , Giovanni Finocchio , Eduardo Martinez

Mechanically bent nickel nanowires show clear features in their room temperature magnetoresistance when a domain wall is pinned at the location of the bend. By varying the direction of an applied magnetic field, the wire can be prepared…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 D. M. Silevitch , M. Tanase , C. L. Chien , D. H. Reich

According to the recent experiment by the Fert group, the velocity of domain wall motion in the spin valve ferromagnetic nanowires was almost doubly enhanced compared to the old value. In this work, we propose an additional torque model,…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-11-21 Tae-Suk Kim

In this work, we study the rotating magnetic field driven domain wall (DW) motion in antiferromagnetic nanowires, using the micromagnetic simulations of the classical Heisenberg spin model. We show that in low frequency region, the rotating…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 W. H. Li , Z. Y. Chen , D. L. Wen , D. Y. Chen , Z. Fan , M. Zeng , X. B. Lu , X. S. Gao , M. H. Qin

We consider a wire consisting of a conducting ferromagnetic layer and an insulating antiferromagnetic layer that are coupled. The ferromagnet hosts a domain wall, which is dynamically driven by a charge current. We show that for a specific…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 A. L. Bassant , R. A. Duine

Using transmission electron microscopy, we investigate the thermally activated motion of domain walls (DWs) between two positions in permalloy (Ni80Fe20) nanowires at room temperature. We show that this purely thermal motion is well…

Angular momentum conservation has served as a guiding principle in the interplay between spin dynamics and mechanical rotations. However, in an antiferromagnet with vanishing magnetization, new fundamental rules are required to properly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-24 Ran Cheng , Xiaochuan Wu , Di Xiao

We present a theoretical formalism to address the dynamics of textured, noncolliear antiferromagnets subject to spin current injection. We derive sine-Gordon type equations of motion for the antiferromagnets, which are applicable to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-21 Yuta Yamane , Olena Gomonay , Jairo Sinova

The static and dynamic properties of skyrmions have recently received increased attention due to the potential application of skyrmions as information carriers and for unconventional computing. While the current-driven dynamics has been…

We theoretically investigate domain wall motion in an antiferromagnetic insulator layer caused by thermally generated spin currents in an adjacent spin-split superconductor layer. An uncompensated antiferromagnet interface enables the two…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-03-17 G. A. Bobkov , I. V. Bobkova , A. M. Bobkov , Akashdeep Kamra

An antiferromagnetic domain wall in a thermal gradient is found to experience a force towards colder regions upon the application of a uniform magnetic field along the easy axis. This force increases with the strength of the applied field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-21 R. Yanes , M. Rodriguez Rosa , L. Lopez-Diaz