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Charged domain walls are a type of domain walls in thin ferromagnetic films which appear due to global topological constraints. The non-dimensionalized micromagnetic energy for a uniaxial thin ferromagnetic film with in-plane magnetization…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-01 Hans Knüpfer , Wenhui Shi

Ferroelectric domain walls are nanoscale objects that can be created, positioned, and erased on demand. They often embody functional properties that are distinct from the surrounding bulk material. Enhanced conductivity, for instance, is…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-29 Elzbieta Gradauskaite , Chia-Jung Yang , Shovon Pal , Manfred Fiebig , Morgan Trassin

The motion of a N\'eel-like ${180}^{\circ}$ domain wall induced by a time-dependent staggered spin-orbit field in the layered collinear antiferromagnet Mn$_2$Au is explored. Through an effective version of the two sublattice nonlinear…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-20 R. Rama-Eiroa , P. E. Roy , J. M. González , K. Y. Guslienko , J. Wunderlich , R. M. Otxoa

Interface physics in oxide heterostructures is pivotal in material's science. Domain walls (DWs) in ferroic systems are examples of naturally occurring interfaces, where order parameter of neighboring domains is modified and emerging…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-08 Josep Fontcuberta , Vassil Skumryev , Vladimir Laukhin , Xavier Granados , Ekhard K. H. Salje

We report a study on the field-driven propagation of vortex-like domain walls in ferromagnetic nanotubes. This particular geometry gives rise to a special feature of the static wall configuration, which significantly influences its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-14 Ming Yan , Christian Andreas , Attila Kákay , Felipe Garcia-Sanchez , Riccardo Hertel

Spin polarized scanning tunneling microscopy is used to directly image topological magnetic textures in thin films of MnGe, and to correlate the magnetism with structure probed at the atomic-scale. Our images indicate helical stripe…

Magnetic domain-walls (DWs) with a preferred chirality exhibit very efficient current-driven motion. Since structural inversion asymmetry (SIA) is required for their stability, the observation of chiral domain walls in highly symmetric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-14 Jeroen H. Franken , Mark Herps , Henk J. M. Swagten , Bert Koopmans

Exploring new strategies for controlling the magnetic domain propagation is the key to realize ultrafast, high-density domain wall-based memory and logic devices for next generation computing. These strategies include strain modulation in…

Altermagnets are a recently discovered class of magnetic materials that combine a collinear, zero-magnetization spin structure, characteristic of antiferromagnets, with spin-split electronic bands, a hallmark of ferromagnets. This unique…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Rui Chen , Bin Zhou , Dong-Hui Xu

The direct current (d.c.) conductivity and emergent functionalities at ferroelectric domain walls are closely linked to the local polarization charges. Depending on the charge state, the walls can exhibit unusual d.c. conduction ranging…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-08 J. Schultheiß , E. Lysne , L. Puntigam , J. Schaab , E. Bourret , Z. Yan , S. Krohns , D. Meier

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

Dynamics of magnetization domain walls (DWs) in thin ferromagnetic nanotubes subject to longitudinal external fields is addressed analytically in the regimes of strong and weak penalization. Explicit functional forms of the DW profiles and…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-04-14 Arseni Goussev , JM Robbins , Valeriy Slastikov

Control of magnetic domain wall motion holds promise for efficient manipulation and transfer of magnetically stored information. Thermal magnon currents, generated by temperature gradients, can be used to move magnetic textures, from domain…

Altermagnets recently came into the spotlight as a new class of magnetic materials, arising as a consequence of specific crystal symmetries. They are characterized by a spin-polarized electronic band structure similar to ferromagnets, but…

We report the direct observation of slow fluctuations of helical antiferromagnetic domains in an ultra-thin holmium film using coherent resonant magnetic x-ray scattering. We observe a gradual increase of the fluctuations in the speckle…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-29 S. Konings , C. Schuessler-Langeheine , H. Ott , E. Weschke , E. Schierle , H. Zabel , J. B. Goedkoop

Transition metal oxides hold great potential for the development of new device paradigms because of the field-tunable functionalities driven by their strong electronic correlations, combined with their earth abundance and environmental…

Though the electrical responses of the various polymorphs found in ferroelectric polycrystalline thin film HfO$_2$ are now well characterized, little is currently understood of this novel material's grain sub-structure. In particular, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-26 Everett D. Grimley , Tony Schenk , Thomas Mikolajick , Uwe Schroeder , James M. LeBeau

Altermagnets, a unique class of magnetic materials that combines features of both ferromagnets and antiferromagnets, have garnered attention for their potential in spintronics and magnonics. While the electronic properties of altermagnets…

The static configuration of ferroelectric domain walls was investigated using atomic force microscopy on epitaxial PbZr0.2Ti0.8O3 thin films. Measurements of domain wall roughness reveal a power law growth of the correlation function of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-11-07 P. Paruch , T. Giamarchi , J. -M. Triscone

We microscopically derive transport equations for the conduction electrons in ferromagnetic materials with an inhomogeneous magnetization profile. Our quantum kinetic approach includes elastic scattering and anisotropic spin-flip scattering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Christian Wickles , Wolfgang Belzig