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The motion of domain walls is crucial for ferroelectric switching. Conventionally, the switching dynamics is believed to be determined by the motion of one or a few low-energy domain wall types of dominant population. Here, we challenge…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-14 Songsong Zhou , Shihan Qin , Andrew M. Rappe

Previous experiments with BaTiO$_3$ single crystals have shown that application of the electric field in the vicinity of the ferroelectric phase transition can be used to introduce peculiar persisting ferroelectric domain walls, accompanied…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-31 P. S. Bednyakov , J. Hlinka

Current driven domain wall motion in curved Heavy Metal/Ferrimagnetic/Oxide multilayer strips is investigated using systematic micromagnetic simulations which account for spin-orbit coupling phenomena. Domain wall velocity and…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-25 David Osuna Ruiz , Óscar Alejos , Víctor Raposo , Eduardo Martínez

Domain switching is the cornerstone of ferroelectric materials. Most associated functionalities can be tuned via domain switching, including but not limited to piezoelectricity, thermal conductivity, domain wall conductivity and topological…

Prediction of properties from composition is a fundamental goal of materials science and can greatly accelerate development of functional materials. It is particularly relevant for ferroelectric perovskite solid solutions where…

Domain wall motion underpins emerging spintronic technologies, such as high-speed racetrack devices and THz logic, and accelerating walls quickly is a key challenge on the path to faster devices. Recent experimental advances introduced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 P. Diona , S. Artyukhin , L. Maranzana

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…

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-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…

We report on the dynamics of a conducting domain wall under applied dc and ac voltages. These dynamics are modeled for a thin film that hosts an ideal charged domain wall via a combination of time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equations for the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-28 Carson Carroll , W. A. Atkinson

Wurtzite ferroelectrics such as scandium-doped aluminum nitride (AlScN) are promising for next-generation memory because of their compatibility with semiconductor processes and strong spontaneous polarization. Ferroelectric switching in…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-29 Changming Ke , Shi Liu

Searching for new methods controlling antiferromagnetic (AFM) domain wall is one of the most important issues for AFM spintronic device operation. In this work, we study theoretically the domain wall motion of an AFM nanowire, driven by the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-02-26 D. L. Wen , Z. Y. Chen , W. H. Li , M. H. Qin , D. Y. Chen , Z. Fan , M. Zeng , X. B. Lu , X. S. Gao , J. M. Liu

Dynamic micromagnetic simulation studies have been completed to observe the motion of a domain wall in a magnetic nanowire in an effort to increase the field-driven domain wall speed. Previous studies have shown that the wire dimensions…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Andrew Kunz , Sarah C. Reiff

The interaction of electric field with charged domain walls in ferroelectrics is theoretically addressed. A general expression for the force acting per unit area of a charged domain wall carrying free charge is derived. It is shown that, in…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-01-31 Maxim Y. Gureev , Pavel Mokry , Alexander K. Tagantsev , Nava Setter

Controlling magnetism using voltage is highly desired for applications, but remains challenging due to fundamental contradiction between polarity and magnetism. Here we propose a mechanism to manipulate magnetic domain walls in…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-22 Jun Chen , Shuai Dong

The dynamics of domain walls in ultrathin ferromagnetic strips with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy is studied from both numerical and analytical micromagnetics. The influence of the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-04-20 L. Sánchez-Tejerina , Ó. Alejos , E. Martínez , J. M. Muñoz

The rich electron correlations and highly coherent transport in reconfigurable devices sketched by a conductive atomic force microscope tip at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface have enabled the oxide platform an ideal playground for studying…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-19 Dawei Qiu , Mengke Ha , Qing Xiao , Zhiyuan Qin , Danqing Liu , Changjian Ma , Guanglei Cheng , Jiangfeng Du

The driving of vibrational motion by external electric fields is a topic of continued interest, due to the possibility of assessing new or metastable material phases with desirable properties. Here, we combine ab initio molecular dynamics…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-15 Elia Stocco , Christian Carbogno , Mariana Rossi

In ferroelectricity, atomic-scale dipole moments interact collectively to produce strong electro-mechanical coupling and switchable macroscopic polarization. Hence, the functionality of ferroelectrics emerges at a solid-solid phase…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-21 Maya Barzilay , Hemaprabha Elangovan , Yachin Ivry

The dynamics of transverse Neel domain wall in a ferromagnetic nanostrip in the presence of driving field, current and transverse magnetic field is investigated by the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert(LLG) equation with the adiabatic and…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-19 R. Arun , P. Sabareesan , M. Daniel