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Ultrafast optical control of magnetic textures offers new opportunities for energy-efficient, high-speed spintronic devices. While uniform magnetization reversal via all-optical switching is well established, the formation dynamics of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Yuzhu Fan , Gaolong Cao , Junlin Wang , Sheng Jiang , Jing Wu , Johan Åkerman , Jonas Weissenrieder

Current induced domain wall (DW) motion has been investigated in a 600-nm wide nanowire using multilayer film with a structure of Ta(5 nm)/Pd(5 nm)/[CoFe(0.4 nm)/Pd(1.2 nm)]$_{15}$/Ta(5 nm)in terms of anomalous Hall effect measurements. It…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-30 Zhaoliang Meng , Manoj Kumar , Jinjun Qiu , Guchang Han , Kie Leong Teo , Duc-The Ngo

We demonstrate the possibility to drive an antiferromagnet domain-wall at high velocities by field-like N\'{e}el spin-orbit torques. Such torques arise from current-induced local fields that alternate their orientation on each sub-lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-06 O. Gomonay , T. Jungwirth , J. Sinova

We numerically compute current-induced spin-transfer torques for antiferromagnetic domain walls, based on a linear response theory in a tight-binding model. We find that, unlike for ferromagnetic domain wall motion, the contribution of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-24 Hyeon-Jong Park , Yunboo Jeong , Se-Hyeok Oh , Gyungchoon Go , Jung Hyun Oh , Kyoung-Whan Kim , Hyun-Woo Lee , Kyung-Jin Lee

Current-induced domain wall (DW) motion has drawn great attention in the last decades as the key operational principle of emerging magnetic memory devices. As the major driving force of the current-induced DW motion, the spin-orbit torque…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-04-26 Soong-Geun Je , Sang-Cheol Yoo , Joo-Sung Kim , Joon Moon , Byoung-Chul Min , Sug-Bong Choe

We predict a fast domain wall (DW) motion induced by a thermal gradient across a nanoscopic ferromagnetic stripe of MnBi. The driving mechanism is an exchange torque fueled by magnon accumulation at the DWs. Depending on the thickness of…

Antiferromagnetic materials are outstanding candidates for next generation spintronic applications, because their ultrafast spin dynamics makes it possible to realize several orders of magnitude higher-speed devices than conventional…

The motion of a N\'eel-like ${180}^{\circ}$ domain wall induced by a time-dependent staggered spin-orbit field in the layered collinear antiferromagnet Mn$_2$Au is explored. Through an effective version of the two sublattice nonlinear…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-20 R. Rama-Eiroa , P. E. Roy , J. M. González , K. Y. Guslienko , J. Wunderlich , R. M. Otxoa

Using transmission electron microscopy, we investigate the thermally activated motion of domain walls (DWs) between two positions in permalloy (Ni80Fe20) nanowires at room temperature. We show that this purely thermal motion is well…

Spin-orbit torque provides a powerful means of manipulating domain walls along magnetic wires. However, the current density required for domain wall motion is still too high to realize low power devices. Here we experimentally demonstrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-06 Boyu Zhang , Yong Xu , Weisheng Zhao , Daoqian Zhu , Xiaoyang Lin , Michel Hehn , Gregory Malinowski , Dafiné Ravelosona , Stéphane Mangin

The dynamics of current-induced motion of a magnetic domain wall in a quasi-one-dimensional ferromagnet with both easy-axis and easy-plane anisotropy, is studied. We pay a special attention to the case of a sharp domain wall, and calculate…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 V. K. Dugaev , V. R. Vieira , P. D. Sacramento , J. Barnas , M. A. N. Araujo , J. Berakdar

Spin-transfer torque (STT) and spin-orbit torque (SOT) are spintronic phenomena allowing magnetization manipulation using electrical currents. Beyond their fundamental interest, they allow developing new classes of magnetic memories and…

We theoretically investigate the dynamics of atomic domain walls (DWs) in antiferromagnets driven by a spin-orbit field. For a DW with the width of a few lattice constants, we identify a Peierls-like pinning effect, with the depinning field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-05 Huanhuan Yang , H. Y. Yuan , Ming Yan , Peng Yan

We predict high-velocity magnetic domain wall (DW) motion driven by out-of-plane acoustic spin in surface acoustic waves (SAWs). We demonstrate that the SAW propagating at a 30-degree angle relative to the x-axis of a 128-degree Y-LiNbO3…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-16 Jiacheng Lu , Fa Chen , Yiming Shu , Yukang Wen , Hang Zou , Yuhao Liu , Shiheng Liang , Wei Luo , Yue Zhang

The fascinating high-speed field-driven domain wall (DW) motion along ferrimagnetic nanowires near the angular momentum compensation point (AMCP) is solved based on the generic ferrimagnetic dynamics. The physics of the absences of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 K. Y. Jing , X. Gong , X. R. Wang

The ultrafast magnetic dynamics in compensated ferrimagnets not only provides information similar to antiferromagnetic dynamics, but more importantly opens new opportunities for future spintronic devices [Kim et al., Nat. Mater. 16, 1187…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 W. H. Li , Z. Jin , D. L. Wen , X. M. Zhang , M. H. Qin , J. M. Liu

Within linear continuum theory, no magnetic texture can propagate faster than the maximum group velocity of its spin waves. Here we report a transient regime due to the appearance of additional antiferromagnetic textures that breaks the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-10 Rubén M. Otxoa , P. E. Roy , R. Rama-Eiroa , K. Y. Giuslienko , J. Wunderlich

Spin dynamics of field-driven domain walls (DWs) guided by Permalloy nanowires are studied by high-speed magneto-optic polarimetry and numerical simulations. DW velocities and spin configurations are determined as functions of longitudinal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-05 Jusang Yang , Geoffrey S. D. Beach , Carl Knutson , James L. Erskine

Domain walls in ferrimagnets and antiferromagnets behave as relativistic sine-Gordon solitons with the spin-wave group velocity setting the ultimate velocity of domain walls and speed of magnetic devices. While this relativistic regime has…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-23 Pietro Diona , Luca Maranzana , Sergey Artyukhin , Giacomo Sala

Racetrack memory based on magnetic domain walls (DWs) motion exhibits advantages of small volume and high reading speed. When compared to current-induced DW motion, voltage-induced DW motion exhibits lower dissipation. On the other hand,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Fa Chen , Zhendong Zhang , Wei Luo , Xiaofei Yang , Long You , Yue Zhang