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Spin-polarized electric current exerts torque on local magnetic spins, resulting in magnetic domain-wall (DW) motion in ferromagnetic nanowires. Such current-driven DW motion opens great opportunities toward next-generation magnetic devices…

Currents induce magnetization torques via spin-transfer when the spin angular momentum is conserved or via relativistic spin-orbit coupling. Beyond simple models, the relationship between material properties and spin-orbit torques is not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-27 Kjetil M. D. Hals , Arne Brataas

Domain walls in soft permalloy strips may exhibit various equilibrium micromagnetic structures depending on the width and thickness of the strip, ranging from the well-known transverse and vortex walls in narrow and thin strips to double…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Virginia Estevez , Lasse Laurson

We demonstrate the possibility to drive an antiferromagnet domain-wall at high velocities by field-like N\'{e}el spin-orbit torques. Such torques arise from current-induced local fields that alternate their orientation on each sub-lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-06 O. Gomonay , T. Jungwirth , J. Sinova

We calculate the electron-mediated exchange interaction between two domain walls in magnetic wires. This corresponds to the equilibrium regime and, therefore, the interaction can be additionally controlled by an electric current. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-17 N. Sedlmayr , V. K. Dugaev , M. Inglot , J. Berakdar

We address the dynamics of magnetic domain walls in ferromagnetic nanowires under the influence of external time-dependent magnetic fields. We report a new exact spatiotemporal solution of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation for the case…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-04-13 Arseni Goussev , JM Robbins , Valeriy Slastikov

We investigate magnetic domain walls in a single fcc Mn layer on Re(0001) employing spin-polarized STM, atom manipulation, and spin dynamics simulations. The low symmetry of the row-wise antiferromagnetic (1Q) state leads to a new type of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 Jonas Spethmann , Martin Grünebohm , Roland Wiesendanger , Kirsten von Bergmann , André Kubetzka

We revisit the description of ferromagnetic domain wall dynamics through an extended one-dimensional model by allowing flexural distortions of the wall during its motion. This is taken into account by allowing the domain wall center and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 Rémy Soucaille , Felipe Garcia-Sanchez , Joo-Von Kim , Thibaut Devolder , Jean-Paul Adam

We theoretically study the interaction of magnons, quanta of spin waves, and a domain wall in a one-dimensional easy-axis antiferromagnet in the presence of an external magnetic field applied along the easy axis. To this end, we begin by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-19 Pengtao Shen , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Se Kwon Kim

We investigate field-driven domain wall (DW) propagation in magnetic nanowires in the framework of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation. We propose a new strategy to speed up the DW motion in a uniaxial magnetic nanowire by using an optimal…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-14 Z. Z. Sun , J. Schliemann

We present a line-based model of transverse domain walls in thin magnetic strips, to study the effect of bulk disorder on the domain wall dynamics within the thermally activated creep regime. The creep velocity is found to exhibit a…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-14 Lasse Laurson , Adil Mughal , Gianfranco Durin , Stefano Zapperi

Ferromagnetic domain walls -transitional regions between magnetic domains- are an essential ingredient for racetrack memory, a device concept that promises to deliver faster and more compact memory storage compared to other non-volatile…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 A. L. Bassant , Y. M. J. Ohlsen , M. Cherkasskii , P. B. He , R. A. Duine

We report the existence of a new regime for domain wall motion in uniaxial and near-uniaxial ferromagnetic nanowires, characterised by applied magnetic fields sufficiently strong that one of the domains becomes unstable. There appears a new…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-05 Arseni Goussev , JM Robbins , Valeriy Slastikov , Sergiy Vasylkevych

We investigate the domain wall dynamics of a ferromagnetic wire under the combined influence of a spin-polarized current and magnonic spin-transfer torque generated by an external field, taking also into account Rashba spin-orbit coupling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Jacob Linder

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…

Momentum transfer from incoming magnons to a Bloch domain wall is calculated using one dimensional continuum micromagnetic analysis. Due to the confinement of the wall in space, the dispersion relation of magnons is different from that of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-16 D. Wang , Xi-guang Wang , Guang-hua Guo

We investigate ferrimagnetic domain wall dynamics induced by circularly polarized spin waves theoretically and numerically. We find that the direction of domain wall motion depends on both the circular polarization of spin waves and the…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-11-06 Se-Hyeok Oh , Se Kwon Kim , Jiang Xiao , Kyung-Jin Lee

We propose a novel spin-orbit torque (SOT) driven and voltage-gated domain wall motion (DWM)-based MTJ device and its application in neuromorphic computing. We show that by utilizing the voltage-controlled gating effect on the DWM, the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-12-20 Aijaz H Lone , Hanrui Li , Nazek El-Atab , Xiaohang Li , Hossein Fariborzi

The motion of magnetic domain walls in ultrathin magnetic heterostructures driven by current via the spin Hall torque is described. We show results from perpendicularly magnetized CoFeB|MgO heterostructures with various heavy metal…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-26 Jacob Torrejon , Masamitsu Hayashi

The interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) of a heavy metal (HM)/ferromagnetic (FM) metal heterostructure is vital to the current-induced domain wall motion (CIDWM) at an ultrahigh velocity. However, strong DMI also tilts the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-12-18 Maokang Shen , Yue Zhang , Wei Luo , Long You , Xiaofei Yang