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Defects, i.e. inhomogeneities of the underlying lattice, are ubiquitous in magnetic materials and can have a crucial impact on their applicability in spintronic devices. For magnetic skyrmions, localized and topologically non-trivial spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-26 Philipp Rieger , Markus Weißenhofer , Ulrich Nowak

In bilayer nanowires consisting of a ferromagnetic layer and a non-magnetic layer with strong spin-orbit coupling, currents create torques on the magnetization beyond those found in simple ferromagnetic nanowires. The resulting magnetic…

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We study theoretically the dynamics of magnons in the presence of a single skyrmion in chiral magnets featuring Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. We show by micromagnetic simulations that the scattering process of magnons by a skyrmion can…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-02-18 Junichi Iwasaki , Aron J. Beekman , Naoto Nagaosa

Spin transport typically relies on direct manipulation of the spin degree of freedom via magnetic fields, spin-orbit coupling, or engineered spin-dependent potentials. We show theoretically that directional spin currents can arise in a…

Chiral spin pumping is the generation of a unidirectional spin current in half of ferromagnetic films or conductors by dynamic dipolar stray fields from close-by nanomagnets. We formulate a general theory of long-range chiral interactions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Tao Yu , Hanchen Wang , Michael A. Sentef , Haiming Yu , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

We theoretically study the dynamics of skyrmion crystals in electrically-insulating chiral magnets subjected to current-induced spin torques by adjacent metallic layers. We develop an elasticity theory that accounts for the gyrotropic force…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-24 Hector Ochoa , Se Kwon Kim , Oleg Tchernyshyov , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Current-induced torques on ferromagnetic nanoparticles and on domain walls in ferromagnetic nanowires are normally understood in terms of transfer of conserved spin angular momentum between spin-polarized currents and the magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. M. Haney , R. A. Duine , A. S. Nunez , A. H. MacDonald

Small objects floating on a fluid have a tendency to aggregate due to capillary forces. This effect has been used, with the help of a magnetic induction field, to assemble submillimeter metallic spheres into a variety of structures, whose…

Magnetic skyrmions, which are topological particle-like excitations in ferromagnets, have attracted a lot of attention recently. Skyrmionics is an attempt to use magnetic skyrmions as information carriers in next generation spintronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-26 Xichao Zhang , Motohiko Ezawa , Yan Zhou

We present new mechanism for manipulation of the spin-wave amplitude through the use of the dynamic charge-mediated magnetoelectric effect in ultrathin multilayers composed of dielectric thin-film capacitors separated by a ferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Piotr Graczyk , Maciej Krawczyk

A magnetic bimeron is a pair of two merons and can be understood as the in-plane magnetized version of a skyrmion. Here we theoretically predict the existence of single magnetic bimerons as well as bimeron crystals, and compare the emergent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-06 Börge Göbel , Alexander Mook , Jürgen Henk , Ingrid Mertig , Oleg A. Tretiakov

Current-induced excitations in bilayer magnetic nanopillars have been studied with large magnetic fields applied perpendicular to the layers at low temperature. Junctions investigated all have Cu/Co/Cu/Co/Cu as core layer stacks. Two types…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-09-14 Wenyu Chen , Andrew D. Kent , M. J. Rooks , N. Ruiz , Jonathan Z. Sun

Topological quasiparticles, such as merons and bimerons, are characterized by non-trivial textures that exhibit remarkably robust transport against deformation, offering significant potential for information processing. While these…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-10 Huaijin Ma , Te Liu , Jiachen Sheng , Kaiyan Cao , Jinpeng Yang , Jian Wang

Thermal spin pumping constitutes a novel mechanism for generation of spin currents; however their weak intensity constitutes a major roadblock for its usefulness. We report a phenomenon that produces a huge spin current in the central…

We theoretically investigate current-induced magnetization dynamics in chiral-lattice helimagnets. Spin-orbit coupling in non-centrosymmetric crystals induces a reactive spin-transfer torque that has not been previously considered. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-09 Kjetil M. D. Hals , Arne Brataas

The electrical manipulation of magnetization by current-induced spin torques has given access to realize a plethora of ultralow power and fast spintronic devices such as non-volatile magnetic memories, spin-torque nano-oscillators, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-04-21 Yuya Tazaki , Yuito Kageyama , Hiroki Hayashi , Takashi Harumoto , Tenghua Gao , Ji Shi , Kazuya Ando

Magnetic skyrmions have attracted enormous research interest since their discovery a decade ago. The non-trivial real-space topology of these nano-whirls leads to fundamentally interesting and technologically relevant consequences - the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-18 Börge Göbel , Ingrid Mertig , Oleg A. Tretiakov

Micromagnetic calculations demonstrate a peculiar evolution of non-axisymmetric skyrmions driven by an applied magnetic field in confined helimagnets with longitudinal modulations. We argue that these specific solitonic states can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 A. O. Leonov , J. C. Loudon , A. N. Bogdanov

In the MnSi bulk chiral magnet, magnetic skyrmion strings of 17 nm in diameter appear in the form of a lattice, penetrating the sample thickness, 10-1,000 um. Although such a bundle of skyrmion strings may exhibit complex soft-matter-like…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-10 F. Kagawa , H. Oike , W. Koshibae , A. Kikkawa , Y. Okamura , Y. Taguchi , N. Nagaosa , Y. Tokura

Spin-transfer torque is one of the important physical quantities to understand for successful application of topological insulators to spintronics. In this paper, we present analytical expressions of the spin-transfer torques on a surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-09 Daichi Kurebayashi , Naoto Nagaosa