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At a superconductor interface with a ferromagnetic insulator (FI), the FI acts to induce a local exchange field within the S layer, which in the presence of spin-orbit interaction promotes a phase modulated superconducting state. Here we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-05-08 J. W. A. Robinson , A. V. Samokhvalov , A. I. Buzdin

Helimagnetic structures, in which the magnetic moments are spirally ordered, host an internal degree of freedom called chirality (or helicity) corresponding to the handedness of the helix. The chirality seems quite robust against…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-27 Hidetoshi Masuda , Takeshi Seki , Yoichi Nii , Hiroto Masuda , Koki Takanashi , Yoshinori Onose

We theoretically examine a cross effect of magnetic field and charge current on antiferromagnetic domain wall dynamics. Since antiferromagnetic materials are largely insensitive to external magnetic fields in general, charge current has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-16 Yuta Yamane , Olena Gomonay , Hristo Velkov , Jairo Sinova

Switching in magnetic materials gives rise to rich physical phenomena and lies at the heart of their technological applications. Although domain wall motion in ferro- and antiferromagnets has been studied, in spiral magnets it is still…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-19 Francesco Foggetti , Margherita Parodi , Naoto Nagaosa , Sergey Artyukhin

Magnetic vortex dynamics in lithographically prepared nanodots is currently a subject of intensive research, particularly after recent demonstration that the vortex polarity can be controlled by in-plane magnetic field. This has stimulated…

Exploring novel strategies to manipulate the order parameter of magnetic materials by electrical means is of great importance, not only for advancing our understanding of fundamental magnetism, but also for unlocking potential practical…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-03-04 L. Chen , Y. Sun , S. Mankovsky , T. N. G. Meier , M. Kronseder , H. Ebert , D. Weiss , C. H. Back

Polar textures have attracted significant attention in recent years as a promising analog to spin-based textures in ferromagnets. Here, using optical second harmonic generation based circular dichroism, we demonstrate deterministic and…

We theoretically study the equilibrium and dynamic properties of nanoscale magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) and magnetic wires, in which an electric field controls the magnetic anisotropy through spin-orbit coupling. By performing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Pramey Upadhyaya , Ritika Dusad , Silas Hoffman , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Juan G. Alzate , Pedram Khalili Amiri , Kang L. Wang

Magnetic vortices are characterized by the senses of in-plane magnetization chirality and by the polarity of the vortex core. The electrical control of vortex polarity and chirality is highly demanded not only for fundamental understanding…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-03-05 Y. M. Luo , Y. Z. Wu , C. Q. Yu , H. Li , J. H. Wen , L. Y. Zhu , Z. H. Qian , T. J. Zhou

In most ferromagnets the magnetization rotates from one domain to the next with no preferred handedness. However, broken inversion symmetry can lift the chiral degeneracy, leading to topologically-rich spin textures such as spin-spirals and…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-01-29 Satoru Emori , Uwe Bauer , Sung-Min Ahn , Eduardo Martinez , Geoffrey S. D. Beach

We consider a domain wall in the mesoscopic quasi-one-dimensional sample (wire or stripe) of weakly anisotropic two-sublattice antiferromagnet, and estimate the probability of tunneling between two domain wall states with different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 B. A. Ivanov , A. K. Kolezhuk , V. E. Kireev

Spintronic devices currently rely on magnetic switching or controlled motion of domain walls by an external magnetic field or spin-polarized current. Achieving the same degree of magnetic controllability using an electric field has…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-02-14 Tuomas H. E. Lahtinen , Kévin J. A. Franke , Sebastiaan van Dijken

Magnetic domain walls are topological solitons whose internal structure is set by competing energies which sculpt them. In common ferromagnets, domain walls are known to be of either Bloch or N\'eel types. Little is established in the case…

The dynamics of a multiferroic domain wall in which an electric field can couple to the magnetization via inhomogeneous magnetoelectric interaction is investigated by the collective-coordinate framework. We show how the electric field is…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-04-08 Hong-Bo Chen , Ye-Hua Liu , You-Quan Li

The dynamics of a domain wall driven by a spin-polarized current in a mesoscopic system is studied numerically. Spin-mixing in the states of the conduction electrons is fully taken into account. When the Fermi energy of the electrons is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jun-ichiro Ohe , Bernhard Kramer

Chiral phonons have attracted increasing attention, as they play important roles in many different systems and processes. However, a method to control phonon chirality by external fields is still lacking. Here, we propose that in…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-21 Hao Chen , Weikang Wu , Kangtai Sun , Shengyuan A. Yang , Lifa Zhang

We investigate how to facilitate the injection of domain walls in chiral ferromagnetic nanowires by electrical means. We calculate the critical current density above which domain walls are injected into the nanowire depending on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Davi R. Rodrigues , Nils Sommer , Karin Everschor-Sitte

We discover that the way spin-waves exert magnetic torques in multiferroic materials can cause not only domain wall motion, but also magnetization dynamics for homogeneous magnetization textures. Interestingly, the domain wall motion can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-03 Iryna Kulagina , Jacob Linder

Chirality is breaking of mirror symmetry in matter. In the fields of biology and chemistry, this is particularly important because some of the essential molecules in life such as amino acids and DNA have chirality. It is a long-standing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-07-04 N. Jiang , Y. Nii , H. Arisawa , E. Saitoh , Y. Onose

Magnons in antiferromagnets exhibit two chiral modes, providing an intrinsic degree of freedom for magnon-based computing architectures and spintronic devices. Electrical control of chiral splitting is crucial for applications, but remains…

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