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Using x-ray magnetic circular and linear dichroism techniques, we demonstrate a collinear exchange coupling between an epitaxial antiferromagnet, tetragonal CuMnAs, and an Fe surface layer. A small uncompensated Mn magnetic moment is…

There is growing evidence that domain walls in ferroics can possess emergent properties that are absent in bulk materials. For example, 180 domain walls in the ferroelectric-antiferromagnetic BiFeO3 are particularly interesting because they…

Magnetic-domain structure and dynamics play an important role in understanding and controlling the magnetic properties of two-dimensional magnets, which are of interest to both fundamental studies and applications[1-5]. However, the probe…

Antiferromagnets hosting structural or magnetic order that breaks time reversal symmetry are of increasing interest for 'beyond von Neumann computing' applications because the topology of their band structure allows for intrinsic physical…

Manipulating magnetic domains is essential for many technological applications. Recent breakthroughs in Antiferromagnetic Spintronics brought up novel concepts for electronic device development. Imaging antiferromagnetic domains is of key…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-30 Min Gyu Kim , Hu Miao , Bin Gao , S. -W. Cheong , C. Mazzoli , A. Barbour , Wen Hu , S. B. Wilkins , I. K. Robinson , M. P. M Dean , V. Kiryukhin

We report direct imaging of boundary magnetization associated with antiferromagnetic domains in magnetoelectric epitaxial Cr2O3 thin films using diamond nitrogen vacancy microscopy. We found a correlation between magnetic domain size and…

Electrical and optical pulsing allow for manipulating the order parameter and magnetoresistance of antiferromagnets, opening novel prospects for digital and analog data storage in spintronic devices. Recent experiments in CuMnAs have…

Magnetoelastic effects in antiferromagnetic CuMnAs are investigated by applying dynamic strain in the 0.01% range through surface acoustic waves in the GaAs substrate. The magnetic state of the CuMnAs/GaAs is characterized by a multitude of…

The pinning and depinning of antiferromagnetic (AFM) domain wall is certainly the core issue of AFM spintronics. In this work, we study theoretically the N\'eel-type domain wall pinning and depinning at a notch in an antiferromagnetic (AFM)…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 Z. Y. Chen , M. H. Qin , J. M. Liu

Antiferromagnetic (AF) domain walls have recently attracted revived attention, not only in the emerging field of AF spintronics, but also more specifically for offering fast domain wall velocities and dynamic excitations up to the terahertz…

In this work, we study the microwave field driven antiferromagnetic domain wall motion in an antiferromagnetic nanowire, using the numerical calculations based on a classical Heisenberg spin model. We show that a proper combination of a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-06-12 Z. Y. Chen , Z. R. Yan , Y. L. Zhang , M. H. Qin , Z. Fan , X. B. Lu , X. S. Gao , J. M. Liu

In BaFe2As2, structural and magnetic planar defects begin to proliferate below the structural phase transition, affecting descriptions of magnetism and superconductivity. We study using density-functional theory the stability and magnetic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-12-24 S. N. Khan , Aftab Alam , D. D. Johnson

Domain wall dynamics in ferromagnets is complicated by internal degrees of freedom of the domain walls. We develop a model of domain walls in disordered thin films with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy capturing such features, and use it…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-08 Audun Skaugen , Lasse Laurson

Unconventional magnetic materials including non-collinear antiferromagnets, p-wave magnets and altermagnets, are an emerging frontier for quantum spintronics and hybrid quantum devices. Critical to the application of these materials is…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-09 Freya Johnson , Jan Zemen , Helena Knowles , Lesley F. Cohen

We use the high spatial sensitivity of the anomalous Hall effect in the ferromagnetic semiconductor Ga1-xMnxAs, combined with the magneto-optical Kerr effect, to probe the nanoscale elastic flexing behavior of a single magnetic domain wall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-08 A. L. Balk , M. E. Nowakowski , M. J. Wilson , D. W. Rench , P. Schiffer , D. D. Awschalom , N. Samarth

We report the nanoscale electrical imaging results in hexagonal $Lu_{0.6}Sc_{0.4}FeO_3$ single crystals using conductive atomic force microscopy (C-AFM) and scanning microwave impedance microscopy (MIM). While the dc and ac response of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-28 Xiaoyu Wu , Kai Du , Lu Zheng , Di Wu , Sang-Wook Cheong , Keji Lai

The pinning effect of the periodic diameter modulations on the domain wall propagation in FeCoCu individual nanowires is determined by Magnetic Force Microscopy, MFM. A main bistable magnetic configuration is firstly concluded from MFM…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-31 Eider Berganza , Cristina Bran , Manuel Vazquez , Agustina Asenjo

We study the properties of domain walls and domain patterns in ultrathin epitaxial magnetic films with two orthogonal in-plane easy axes, which we call fourfold materials. In these materials, the magnetization vector is constrained to lie…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-13 Ross G. Lund , Cyrill B. Muratov

Magnetic domain walls (DWs) in nanostructures are low-dimensional objects that separate regions with uniform magnetisation. Since they can have different shapes and widths, DWs are an exciting playground for fundamental research, and became…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-17 V. D. Nguyen , O. Fruchart , S. Pizzini , J. Vogel , J. -C. Toussaint , N. Rougemaille

Conductive ferroelectric domain walls--ultra-narrow and configurable conduction paths, have been considered as essential building blocks for future programmable domain wall electronics. For applications in high density devices, it is…