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In this paper, we study the domain wall dynamics under electric current in the helimagnet MnAu$_2$. We have found that the threshold electric current of the transition from a multidomain state to a single-chiral domain state in a magnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-01 Yuta Kimoto , Hidetoshi Masuda , Jun-ichiro Ohe , Shoya Sakamoto , Takeshi Seki , Yoshinori Onose

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

Using magnetic force microscopy and micromagnetic simulations, we studied the effect of Oersted magnetic fields on the chirality of transverse magnetic domain walls in Fe$_{20}$Ni$_{80}$/Ir bilayer nanostrips. Applying nanosecond current…

Memory and logic devices that encode information in magnetic domains rely on the controlled injection of domain walls to reach their full potential. In this work, we exploit the chiral coupling induced by the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-27 T. Phuong Dao , Marvin Müller , Zhaochu Luo , Manuel Baumgartner , Aleš Hrabec , Laura J. Heyderman , Pietro Gambardella

We studied the quantum dynamics of ferromagnetic domain walls (topological kink-type solitons) in one dimensional ferromagnetic spin chains. We show that the tunneling probability does not depend on the number of spins in a domain wall;…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. G. Galkina , B. A. Ivanov , Sergey Savel'ev , Franco Nori

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

We theoretically study the current-induced dynamics of a transverse magnetic domain wall in bi-layer nanowires consisting of a ferromagnet on top of a nonmagnet having strong spin-orbit coupling. Domain wall dynamics is characterized by two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-18 Soo-Man Seo , Kyoung-Whan Kim , Jisu Ryu , Hyun-Woo Lee , Kyung-Jin Lee

Magnetic skyrmions are localized chiral spin textures, which offer great promise to store and process information at the nanoscale. In the presence of asymmetric exchange interactions, their chirality, which governs their dynamics, is…

Chiral magnetism, wherein there is a preferred sense of rotation of the magnetization, has become a key aspect for future spintronic applications. It determines the chiral nature of magnetic textures, such as skyrmions, domain walls or spin…

The seeding of vortex domain walls in V-shaped nanowires by a magnetic field has been investigated via simulations and Scanning Electron Microscopy with Polarization Analysis (SEMPA). It is found that the orientation of the magnetic field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-02 S. Hankemeier , A. Kobs , R. Froemter , H. P. Oepen

Spin-wave technology (magnonics) has the potential to further reduce the size and energy consumption of information processing devices. In the submicrometer regime (exchange spin waves), topological defects such as domain walls may…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-12 F. J. Buijnsters , Y. Ferreiros , A. Fasolino , M. I. Katsnelson

We study theoretically the impact of an applied DC-current on a mesoscopic chiral $p$-wave superconductor. Performing quasiclassical calculations on a two-dimensional system, with an external magnetic flux to generate a DC current, we show…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-08-21 Thibaut Jonckheere , Takeo Kato

The discovery that a spin polarized current can exert a large torque on a ferromagnet through a transfusion of spin angular momentum, offers a new way to control a magnetization by simple current injection, without the help of an applied…

In antiferromagnets, the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction lifts the degeneracy of left- and right-circularly polarized spin waves. This relativistic coupling increases the efficiency of spin-wave-induced domain wall motion and leads to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-09 Alireza Qaiumzadeh , Lars A. Kristiansen , Arne Brataas

We show how the axial (chiral) anomaly induces a spin torque on the magnetization in magnetic Weyl semimetals. The anomaly produces an imbalance in left- and right-handed chirality carriers when non-orthogonal electric and magnetic fields…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-27 Julia D. Hannukainen , Alberto Cortijo , Jens H. Bardarson , Yago Ferreiros

We derive the equations of motion of a Domain Wall in a thin-film magnet coupled to the surface states of a Topological Insulator in the presence of of both an electric field along the Domain Wall and a magnetic field perpendicular to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-10 Yago Ferreiros , Alberto Cortijo

We propose to use oscillating spin currents with slowly varying frequency (chirp) to manipulate and control the magnetization dynamics in a nanomagnet. By recasting the Landau-Lifshitz-Slonczewski equation in a quantum-like two-level…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Guillaume Klughertz , Lazar Friedland , Paul-Antoine Hervieux , Giovanni Manfredi

We study macroscopic quantum dynamics of a free domain wall in a quasi-one-dimensional ferromagnet by use of the spin-coherent-state path integral in {\it discrete-time} formalism. Transition amplitudes between typical states are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Junya Shibata , Shin Takagi

Magnetic textures can be manipulated by electric currents via the mechanisms of spin-transfer and spin-orbit-torques. We review how these torques can be exploited to create chiral magnetic textures in magnets with broken inversion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 Jan Masell , Karin Everschor-Sitte

Due to the difficulty in detecting and manipulating magnetic states of antiferromagnetic materials, studying their switching dynamics using electrical methods remains a challenging task. In this work, by employing heavy metal/rare…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-03 Saima A Siddiqui , Jiahao Han , Joseph T Finley , Caroline A Ross , Luqiao Liu
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