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The magnetization dynamics equation predicts that a domain wall that changes structure should undergo a displacement by itself - automotion - due to the relaxation of the linear momentum that is associated with the wall structure. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Jean-Yves Chauleau , Raphaël Weil , André Thiaville , Jacques Miltat

Spin-orbit torque (SOT) enables efficient current-driven control of magnetization, offering a promising pathway toward low-power spintronic devices. However, the origin and propagation of both damping-like (DL) and field-like (FL) SOTs in…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-13 Yuming Bai , Rulin Tian , Yue Zhang , Tao Wang

We theoretically demonstrate that the presence of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction (DMI) can lead to enhancement of the spin-motive force (SMF) arising due to field-induced ferromagnetic domain wall motion. A SMF refers to an electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Yuta Yamane

We derive the complete expression of nonlocal damping in noncollinear magnetization due to the nonuniform spin current pumped by precessional magnetization and incorporate it into a generalized Thiele equation to study its effects on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-17 H. Y. Yuan , Zhe Yuan , Ke Xia , X. R. Wang

We have performed an experimental and modeling-based study of the spin-orbit torque-induced growth of magnetic stripe domains in heavy metal/ferromagnet thin-film heterostructures that possess chiral N\'eel-type domain walls due to an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-04 Jeffrey A. Brock , Daan Swinkels , Bert Koopmans , Eric E. Fullerton

Spin dynamics of field-driven domain walls (DWs) guided by Permalloy nanowires are studied by high-speed magneto-optic polarimetry and numerical simulations. DW velocities and spin configurations are determined as functions of longitudinal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-05 Jusang Yang , Geoffrey S. D. Beach , Carl Knutson , James L. Erskine

We predict high-velocity magnetic domain wall (DW) motion driven by out-of-plane acoustic spin in surface acoustic waves (SAWs). We demonstrate that the SAW propagating at a 30-degree angle relative to the x-axis of a 128-degree Y-LiNbO3…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-16 Jiacheng Lu , Fa Chen , Yiming Shu , Yukang Wen , Hang Zou , Yuhao Liu , Shiheng Liang , Wei Luo , Yue Zhang

We report field- and current-induced domain wall (DW) depinning experiments in Ta/Co20Fe60B20/MgO nanowires through a Hall cross geometry. While purely field-induced depinning shows no angular dependence on in-plane fields, the effect of…

Adiabatic spin transfer torque induced domain wall (DW) depinning from a notch and DW propagation in a nanowire with a series of notches is investigated. Surprisingly, notches help a current to depin a DW and make a DW easier to propagate…

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

Antiferromagnetic materials are outstanding candidates for next generation spintronic applications, because their ultrafast spin dynamics makes it possible to realize several orders of magnitude higher-speed devices than conventional…

Realization of efficient spin-orbit torque switching of the N\'eel vector in insulating antiferromagnets is a challenge, often complicated by spurious effects. Quantifying the spin-orbit torques in antiferromagnet/heavy metal…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-25 Igor Lyalin , Hantao Zhang , Justin Michel , Daniel Russell , Fengyuan Yang , Ran Cheng , Roland K. Kawakami

Spin-orbit torques (SOTs) have opened a new path to switch the magnetization in perpendicularly magnetized films and are of great interest due to their potential applications in novel data storage technology, such as the magnetic random…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-02-02 Pan He , Xuepeng Qiu , Vanessa L. Zhang , Yang Wu , Meng Hau Kuok , Hyunsoo Yang

Understanding and manipulating nanoscale domain wall (DW) dynamics is a central topic in magnetism and spintronics for its promising applications in logic and memory devices. In most magnetic systems, inertia affects only transient DW…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 K. Y. Jing , X. R. Wang , H. Y. Yuan

Field-free switching of perpendicular magnetization has been observed in an epitaxial L1$_1$-ordered CoPt/CuPt bilayer and attributed to spin-orbit torque (SOT) arising from the crystallographic $3m$ point group of the interface. Using a…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-31 Wuzhang Fang , Edward Schwartz , Alexey A. Kovalev , K. D. Belashchenko

Structural symmetry breaking in magnetic materials is responsible for a variety of outstanding physical phenomena. Examples range from the existence of multiferroics, to current induced spin orbit torques (SOT) and the formation of…

The precise manipulation of transverse magnetic domain walls in finite/infinite nanowires with artificial defects under the influence of very short spin-polarized current pulses is investigated. We show that for a classical $3d$ ferromagnet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-09 A. Pivano , V. O. Dolocan

Two effects of oscillatory transformations of vortex textures in flat nanomagnets due to the application of an external field or a spin-polarized electric current are analytically described with relevance to soft-magnetic structures of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-06 Andrzej Janutka

Current-induced spin-transfer torques (STTs) have been studied in Fe, Co and Ni domain walls (DWs) by the method based on the first-principles noncollinear calculations of scattering wave functions expanded in the tight-binding linearized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-02 Ling Tang , Zhijun Xu , Zejin Yang

Use of a spin polarized current for the manipulation of magnetic domain walls in ferromagnetic nanowires has been the subject of intensive research for many years. Recently, due to technological advancements, creating nano-contacts with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-10 Hamidreza Kazemi , Sebastian Eggert , Nicholas Sedlmayr

The Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) in magnetic systems stabilizes spin textures with preferred chirality, applicable to next-generation memory and computing architectures. In perpendicularly magnetized heavy-metal/ferromagnet…