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We report a counter-intuitive finding that notches in an otherwise homogeneous magnetic nanowire can boost current-induced domain wall (DW) propagation. DW motion in notch-modulated wires can be classified into three phases: 1) A DW is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 H. Y. Yuan , X. R. Wang

Shifting electrically a magnetic domain wall (DW) by the spin transfer mechanism is one of the future ways foreseen for the switching of spintronic memories or registers. The classical geometries where the current is injected in the plane…

The interaction between a spin polarized dc electrical current and spin wave modes of a cylindrical nanowire is investigated in this report. We found that close to the critical current, the uniform mode is suppressed, while the edge mode…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-08-20 Voicu O. Dolocan

Despite generally lacking ferromagnetic properties or strong spin-orbit coupling, electrons in chiral molecules exhibit unique spin-dependent transport behavior, known as chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS). This phenomenon implies a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-05 Peng-Yi Liu , Tian-Yi Zhang , Qing-Feng Sun

Motivated by the importance of understanding competing mechanisms to current-induced spin-orbit torque in complex magnets, we develop a unified theory of current-induced spin-orbital coupled dynamics. The theory describes angular momentum…

In Weyl semimetals subjected to torsion, there are two different kinds of chirality: i) the (coordinate-space) shape of the twisted crystal is chiral, and ii) the momentum space contains chiral quasi-particles. Here we construct a general…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 Lan-Lan Gao , Sahal Kaushik , Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Evan John Philip

Using newly developed quantum-classical hybrid framework, we investigate interaction between spin-polarized conduction electrons and a single spin wave (SW) coherently excited within a metallic ferromagnetic nanowire. When the nanowire…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-08 Abhin Suresh , Utkarsh Bajpai , Branislav K. Nikolic

We have investigated the motion of vortex domain walls passing across non symmetric triangular notches in single Permalloy nanowires. We have measured hysteresis cycles using the focused magneto-optical Kerr effect before and beyond the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-10 J. Brandão , R. L. Novak , H. Lozano , P. R. Soledade , A. Mello , F. Garcia , L. C. Sampaio

The motion of domain walls in ferromagnetic, cylindrical nanowires is investigated numerically by solving the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation for a classical spin model in which energy contributions from exchange, crystalline anisotropy,…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Wieser , U. Nowak , K. D. Usadel

Based on the similarity between the chiral nanotube and the classical solenoid, we study chiral transport along the circumferential direction in a carbon nanotube. We calculate the chiral conductivity, representing a circumferential current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Masaki Noro , Junya Tanaka , Takehito Yokoyama , Shuichi Murakami

We propose a method that allows power conversion from DC magnetic fields to AC electric voltages using domain wall (DW) motion in ferromagnetic nanowires. The device concept relies on spinmotive force, voltage generation due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Jun'ichi Ieda , Sadamichi Maekawa

We propose an effect whereby an electric current along the interface between a ferromagnetic and normal metal leads to injection of pure spin current into the normal metal, if the magnetization-direction in the ferromagnet varies along the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-28 E. van der Bijl , R. E. Troncoso , R. A. Duine

We investigate the relation between thermal spin-transfer torque (TSTT) and the spin-dependent Seebeck effect (SDSE), which produces a spin current when a temperature gradient is applied across a metallic ferromagnet, in nanopillar metallic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-21 J. Flipse , F. K. Dejene , B. J. van Wees

Extensive research has focused on phenomena arising from the chirality of crystalline or magnetic structures. Recently, we have proposed the "Nonlinear Chiral Thermo-Electric (NCTE) Hall effect," in which current flows in the direction of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-02 Kazuki Nakazawa , Terufumi Yamaguchi , Ai Yamakage

This paper introduces an oscillator scheme based on the oscillations of magnetic domain walls due to spin-polarized currents, where the current is injected perpendicular to the sample plane in a localized part of a nanowire. Depending on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 G. Finocchio , N. Maugeri , L. Torres , B. Azzerboni

Domain-wall skyrmions (DWSKs) are topological spin textures confined within domain walls that have recently attracted significant attention due to their potential applications in racetrack memory technologies. In this study, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-09 Haoyang Nie , Zhixiong Li , Xiansi Wang , Zhenyu Wang

Advancing the development of spin-wave devices requires high-quality low-damping magnetic materials where magnon spin currents can propagate efficiently and interact effectively with local magnetic textures. We show that magnetic domain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-06 Yabin Fan , Miela J. Gross , Takian Fakhrul , Joseph Finley , Justin T. Hou , Luqiao Liu , Caroline A. Ross

We study superfluidlike spin transport facilitated by thermal diffusion of magnetic domain walls, where the positive and negative chiralities of domain walls act as opposite topological charges. The topological charge conservation leads to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-16 Alexey A. Kovalev , Bo Li , Edward Schwartz

The inevitable Gilbert damping in magnetization dynamics is usually regarded as detrimental to spin transport. Here we apply a general feature of chiral non-Hermitian dynamics to a ferromagnetic-insulator--normal-metal heterostructure to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-23 Xiyin Ye , Ke Xia , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Tao Yu

Skyrmions can be driven by spin-orbit torques as a result of the spin Hall effect. Here we model an additional contribution in ultra-thin multilayers, arising from the spin accumulation at heavy metal / ferromagnetic interfaces and observe…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 C. R. MacKinnon , S. Lepadatu , T. Mercer , P. Bissell