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Magnetic domain walls (DWs) in nanostructures are low-dimensional objects that separate regions with uniform magnetisation. Since they can have different shapes and widths, DWs are an exciting playground for fundamental research, and became…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-17 V. D. Nguyen , O. Fruchart , S. Pizzini , J. Vogel , J. -C. Toussaint , N. Rougemaille

Electrically manipulating domain wall (DW) is at central in the field of spintronics. Magnetic Weyl semimetal (WSM) offers an additional knob for electric manipulation of DW by utilizing the topological DW bound states. Using magnetic WSM…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-12-07 Qiang Li , Haiyang Ma , Xin Zhang , Yanfeng Guo , Jianpeng Liu , Wenbo Wang , Xiaodong Zhou , Jian Shen

We review our recent magnetotransport and micromagnetic studies of lithographically defined epitaxial thin film structures of bcc Fe and hcp Co with stripe domains. Micromagnetic structure and resistivity anisotropy are shown to be the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-15 Andrew D. Kent , Ulrich Rüdiger , Jun Yu , Luc Thomas , Stuart S. P. Parkin

The recent observation of current-induced domain wall (DW) motion with large velocity in ultrathin magnetic wires has opened new opportunities for spintronic devices. However, there is still no consensus on the underlying mechanisms of DW…

We report on the evolution of ferromagnetic domain walls during magnetization reversal in elastically coupled ferromagnetic-ferroelectric heterostructures. Using optical polarization microscopy and micromagnetic simulations, we demonstrate…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-10-25 Kévin J. A. Franke , Tuomas H. E. Lahtinen , Sebastiaan van Dijken

The electric resistance of ferromagnet/normal-metal/ferromagnet perpendicular spin valves depends on the relative angle between the magnetization directions. In contrast to common wisdom, this angular magnetoresistance is found to be not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jan Manschot , Arne Brataas , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

Using density functional theory calculations, we demonstrate that the effect of anisotropic magnetoresistance (AMR) can be enhanced by orders of magnitude with respect to conventional bulk ferromagnets in junctions containing molecules…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-23 Fabian Otte , Stefan Heinze , Yuriy Mokrousov

A nonlinear magnetoresistance - called unidirectional spin-Hall magnetoresistance - is recently experimentally discovered in metallic bilayers consisting of a heavy metal and a ferromagnetic metal. To study the fundamental mechanism of the…

Current-induced domain wall motion in the presence of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) is experimentally and theoretically investigated in heavy-metal/ferromagnet bilayers. The angular dependence of the current-induced torque and…

The ability to rapidly manipulate domain walls (DWs) in magnetic materials is key to developing novel high-speed spintronic memory and computing devices. Antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials present a particularly promising platform due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-12 Kyle L. Seyler , Hantao Zhang , Daniel Van Beveren , Costel R. Rotundu , Young S. Lee , Ran Cheng , David Hsieh

As a collective quasiparticle excitation of the magnetic order in magnetic materials, spin wave, or magnon when quantized, can propagate in both conducting and insulating materials. Like the manipulation of its optical counterpart, the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-11-28 Jin Lan , Weichao Yu , Jiang Xiao

The current-driven motion of magnetic domain walls (DWs) is the working principle of magnetic racetrack memories. In this type of spintronic technology, high current densities are used to propel DW motion in magnetic nanowires, causing…

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

There has been a plethora of studies on domain wall dynamics in magnetic nanostrips, mainly because of its versatile non-linear physics and potential applications in data storage devices. However, most of the studies focus on out-of-plane…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-27 Zhoujian Sun , Panpan Fang , Xinwei Shi , X. S. Wang , Fuxiang Li

We probe the current-induced magnetic switching of insulating antiferromagnet/heavy metals systems, by electrical spin Hall magnetoresistance measurements and direct imaging, identifying a reversal occurring by domain wall (DW) motion. We…

A self-contained theory of the domain wall dynamics in ferromagnets under finite electric current is presented. The current is shown to have two effects; one is momentum transfer, which is proportional to the charge current and wall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Gen Tatara , Hiroshi Kohno

We present a phenomenological theory of altermagnets, that captures their unique magnetization dynamics and allows modelling magnetic textures in this new magnetic phase. Focusing on the prototypical d-wave altermagnets, e.g. RuO$_2$, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-30 O. Gomonay , V. P. Kravchuk , R. Jaeschke-Ubiergo , K. V. Yershov , T. Jungwirth , L. Šmejkal , J. van den Brink , J. Sinova

Compensated ferrimagnets are promising materials for fast spintronic applications based on domain wall motion as they combine the favourable properties of ferromagnets and antiferromagnets. They inherit from antiferromagnets immunity to…

Starting from a simple microscopic model, we have derived a kinetic equation for the matrix distribution function. We employed this equation to calculate the conductance $G$ in a mesoscopic F'/F/F' structure with a domain wall (DW). In the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 F. S. Bergeret , A. F. Volkov , K. B. Efetov

Spin wave and magnetic domain wall are two of basic excitations in magnetic systems, and their spatiotemporal interplay encodes rich information of underlying magnetic interactions. In synthetic antiferromagnets, the domain wall acquires an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Jin Lan , Yang Zhang