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The motions of domain walls driven by magnetic field in soft magnetic nanostripes were calculated. The domain walls reveal steady motions in the low fields and oscillations of their internal structure above a critical field. A developed…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-11-26 Konstantin Yu. Guslienko , Jun-Young Lee , Sang-Koog Kim

Magnetic domain walls can be moved by spin-polarized currents due to spin-transfer torques. This opens the possibility to use them in spintronic memory devices as, e.g., in racetrack storage. Naturally, in miniaturized devices domain walls…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Martin Stier , Jennifer Erdmann , Michael Thorwart

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

Spin-orbit torque in magnetic domain walls was investigated by solving the Pauli-Schr\"{o}dinger equation for the itinerant electrons. The Rashba interaction considered is derived from the violation of inversion symmetry at interfaces…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-21 D. Wang , Yan Zhou

In order to enhance the magnitude of spin-orbit torque (SOT), considerable experimental works have been devoted to studying the thickness dependence of the different layers in multilayers consisting of heavy metal (HM), ferromagnet (FM) and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Chi Sun , Zhuo Bin Siu , Seng Ghee Tan , Hyunsoo Yang , Mansoor B. A. Jalil

Electrical manipulation of magnetism via spin-orbit torques (SOTs) promises efficient spintronic devices. In systems comprising magnetic insulators and heavy metals, SOTs have started to be investigated only recently, especially in systems…

Micromagnetic modeling is employed to optimize the design of artificial synapse devices based on the spin-orbit-torque (SOT) driven domain wall (DW) motion along a nanotrack with triangular notches. Key attributes, such as the thermal…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-01-28 Guntas Kaur , Tanmoy Pramanik

Memory and logic devices that encode information in magnetic domains rely on the controlled injection of domain walls to reach their full potential. In this work, we exploit the chiral coupling induced by the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-27 T. Phuong Dao , Marvin Müller , Zhaochu Luo , Manuel Baumgartner , Aleš Hrabec , Laura J. Heyderman , Pietro Gambardella

The origins of the spin-orbit torque (SOT) at ferromagnet/topological insulator (FM/TI) interfaces are incompletely understood. Theory has overwhelmingly focussed on the Edelstein effect due to the surface states in the presence of a scalar…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-12-16 Mohsen Farokhnezhad , Reza Asgari , Dimitrie Culcer

We study the current-driven domain wall (DW) motion in cylindrical nanowires using micromagnetic simulations by implementing the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation with nonlocal spin-transfer torque in a finite difference micromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-29 Weiwei Wang , Zhaoyang Zhang , Ryan A. Pepper , Congpu Mu , Yan Zhou , Hans Fangohr

Motivated by recent progress in employing two key classes of two-dimensional materials-topological insulators and transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs)-as spin sources for generating spin-orbit torque (SOT), we investigate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-01 Leyla Majidi , Azadeh Faridi , Reza Asgari

The magnetic textures of Weyl semimetals are embedded into their topological structure and interact dynamically with it. Here, we examine electric field-induced structural phase transitions in domain walls mediated by the spin transfer…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-20 Shiva Heidari , Reza Asgari , Dimitrie Culcer

Spin-orbit spin transfer torque allows an efficient control of magnetization by an in-plane current. Recent experiments found that the spin-orbit torque has strong dependence on the magnetization angle [Garello et al., Nature Nanotechnol.…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-01-20 Seo-Won Lee , Kyung-Jin Lee

Deterministic magnetization switching using spin-orbit torque (SOT) has recently emerged as an efficient means to electrically control the magnetic state of ultrathin magnets. The SOT switching still lacks in oscillatory switching…

We have investigated numerically the field-driven propagation of perpendicularly magnetized ferromagnetic layers. It was then compared to the historical one-dimensional domain wall (DW) propagation model widely used in spintronics studies…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-03-01 L. Thevenard , C. Gourdon , S. Haghgoo , J-P. Adam , H. J. von Bardeleben , A. Lemaître , W. Schoch , A. Thiaville

Discovering alternative ways to drive domain wall (DW) dynamics is crucial for advancing spintronic applications. Here we demonstrate via atomistic spin dynamics simulations that optical torques can efficiently drive 90^{\circ} DWs in the…

We predict the existence of anisotropic spin-transfer torque effect in textured altermagnets. To this end, we generalize the Zhang-Li torque to incorporate the symmetry associated with prototypical $d$-wave altermagnets and identify the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-30 Hamed Vakili , Edward Schwartz , Alexey A. Kovalev

We report the observation of the intrinsic damping-like spin-orbit torque (SOT) arising from the Berry curvature in metallic-magnet/CuO$_x$ heterostructures. We show that a robust damping-like SOT, an order of magnitude larger than a…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-07-11 Tenghua Gao , Alireza Qaiumzadeh , Hongyu An , Akira Musha , Yuito Kageyama , Ji Shi , Kazuya Ando

We study spin-orbit torques (SOTs) in Ni/Pt bi-layers and multi-layers by ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) and harmonic-Hall measurements. The effect of multi-layering and crystal orientation on field-like (FL) and damping-like (DL) torque…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-27 A. Sud , Y. -C. Lau , J. Brierley , H. Kurebayashi , T. Seki

We present a theoretical study of spin-wave scattering by a twisted domain wall (DW) in a two-dimensional ferromagnet with easy-axis anisotropy. While the twisted DW generates an effective gauge field for spin waves, leading to a deflection…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-15 Ehsan Faridi , Se Kwon Kim , Giovanni Vignale