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Starting from the stochastic Landau-Lifschitz-Gilbert equation, we derive Langevin equations that describe the nonzero-temperature dynamics of a rigid domain wall. We derive an expression for the average drift velocity of the domain wall as…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 R. A. Duine , A. S. Nunez , A. H. MacDonald

We report on a quantum description of the domain wall (DW) motion under a spin current. A bound magnon, which is the zero mode of DW, is found to play a dominant role in DW dynamics. The bound magnon acquires its inertia by the hard axis…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-01-21 Tae-Suk Kim , J. Ieda , S. Maekawa

Magnetic skyrmions, as a whirling spin texture with axisymmetry, cannot be propelled by a uniform magnetic field. Therefore, reported skyrmion motions have been induced using other sorts of stimuli; typically, electric currents in magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-18 Xiangjun Xing , Yan Zhou

Finding a new control parameter for magnetic domain wall (DW) motion in magnetic nanostructures is important in general and in particular for the spintronics applications. Here, we show that a circularly polarized magnetic field (CPMF) at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-13 P. Yan , X. R. Wang

We show that spin transfer torque from direct spin-polarized current applied parallel to a magnetic domain wall (DW) induces DW motion in a direction independent of the current polarity. This unidirectional response of the DW to spin torque…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-14 Carl T. Boone , Ilya N. Krivorotov

The dynamic motion of topological defects in magnets induces an emergent electric field, as exemplified by the continuous flow of skyrmion vortices. However, the electrodynamics underlying this emergent field remains poorly understood. In…

Racetrack memory based on magnetic domain walls (DWs) motion exhibits advantages of small volume and high reading speed. When compared to current-induced DW motion, voltage-induced DW motion exhibits lower dissipation. On the other hand,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Fa Chen , Zhendong Zhang , Wei Luo , Xiaofei Yang , Long You , Yue Zhang

The dynamics of a 90$^{\circ }$ domain wall in an antiferromagnetic nanostrip driven by the current-induced spin-orbital torque are theoretically examined in the presence of random thermal fluctuations. A soliton-type equation of motion is…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-26 Yuriy G. Semenov , Xinyi Xu , Ki Wook Kim

The relation between domain wall motion and intensity of driven current is examined in a phenomenological theory where the kinetic energy is expanded as a series of polynomial function of current density just as the Landau phase transition…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-06 Hao Yu

In a first approximation, known as the adiabatic process, the direction of the spin polarization of currents is parallel to the local magnetization vector in a domain wall. Thus the spatial variation of the direction of the spin current…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Z. Li , S. Zhang

The dynamics of the domain wall (DW) in a biaxial ferromagnet interacting with a spin-polarized current are described by sine-gordon (SG) equation coupled with Gilbert damping term in this paper. Within our frame-work of this model, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-09 Xin Liu , Xiong-Jun Liu , Mo-Lin Ge

The interaction between the propagating spin waves and the current driven motion of a transverse domain wall in magnetic nanowires is studied by micromagnetic simulations. If the speed of domain walls due to current induced spin transfer…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-03-25 Mahdi Jamali , Hyunsoo Yang , Kyung-Jin Lee

We study domain wall (DW) motion induced by spin waves (magnons) in the presence of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). The DMI exerts a torque on the DW when spin waves pass through the DW, and this torque represents a linear momentum…

We report a counter-intuitive finding that notches in an otherwise homogeneous magnetic nanowire can boost current-induced domain wall (DW) propagation. DW motion in notch-modulated wires can be classified into three phases: 1) A DW is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 H. Y. Yuan , X. R. Wang

Thermal vector potential formulation is applied to study thermal dynamics of magnetic structures in insulating ferromagnets. By separating variables of the magnetic structure and magnons, the equation of motion for the structure including…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-12 Gen Tatara

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…

We study current-induced dynamics of a magnetic domain wall by solving a time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation combined with Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation in a one-dimensional electron system coupled to localized spins. Two types of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-10 Daisuke Matsubayashi , Masafumi Udagawa , Masao Ogata

Spin transport driven by the temperature gradient in ferromagnetic metals is studied based on a microscopic theory. It is shown that the temperature gradient works as an effective field equivalent to the electric field as for both the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Yuu Takezoe , Kazuhiro Hosono , Akihito Takeuchi , Gen Tatara

Antiferromagnetic spintronics is an emerging research field which aims to utilize antiferromagnets as core elements in spintronic devices. A central motivation toward this direction is that antiferromagnetic spin dynamics is expected to be…

Current-driven magnetization dynamics in ferromagnetic metals are studied in a self-consistent adiabatic local-density approximation in the presence of spin-conserving and spin-dephasing impurity scattering. Based on a quantum kinetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Hans Joakim Skadsem , Arne Brataas , Gerrit E. W. Bauer