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A spontaneous symmetry breaking in a system often results in domain wall formation. The motion of such domain walls is utilized to realize novel devices like racetrack-memories, in which moving ferromagnetic domain walls store and carry…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-08-13 M. S. Anwar , Taketomo Nakamura , S. Yonezawa , M. Yakabe , R. Ishiguro , H. Takayanagi , Y. Maeno

In the presence of axial magnetic fields that can be realized in deliberately buckled monolayer graphene, quasi-relativistic Dirac fermions may find themselves in a variety of broken symmetry phases even for weak interactions. Through a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-03 Bitan Roy , Jay D. Sau

Magnetic bimerons are topologically nontrivial spin textures in in-plane easy-axis magnets, which can be used as particle-like information carriers. Here, we report a theoretical study on the nonreciprocal dynamics of asymmetrical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-21 Laichuan Shen , Jing Xia , Zehan Chen , Xiaoguang Li , Xichao Zhang , Oleg A. Tretiakov , Qiming Shao , Guoping Zhao , Xiaoxi Liu , Motohiko Ezawa , Yan Zhou

We demonstrate how shape-induced strain can be used to control antiferromagnetic order in NiO/Pt thin films. For rectangular elements patterned along the easy and hard magnetocrystalline anisotropy axes of our film, we observe different…

Topological insulators (TIs) show rich phenomena and functions which can never be realized in ordinary insulators. Most of them come from the peculiar surface or edge states. Especially, the quantized anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) without an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-03 Ryohei Wakatsuki , Motohiko Ezawa , Naoto Nagaosa

Magnetic spin topological textures recently found their electrical counterparts in polar topologies emerging from the condensation of inhomogeneous polar atomic distortions. Here, we further extend the concept to other non-polar atomic…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-10 Fernando Gómez-Ortiz , Louis Bastogne , Philippe Ghosez

Current-driven dynamics of spin textures plays a pivotal role in potential applications for electronic devices. While two-dimensional magnetic skyrmions with topologically nontrivial spin textures have garnered significant interest, their…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-25 Kotaro Shimizu , Shun Okumura , Yasuyuki Kato , Yukitoshi Motome

Nanoscale self-localized topological spin textures, such as domain walls and skyrmions, are of interest for the fundamental physics of magnets and spintronics applications. Ferrimagnets (FiMs), in the region close to the angular momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-29 R. V. Ovcharov , B. A. Ivanov , E. G. Galkina , J. Åkerman , R. S. Khymyn

Electrical readout of 180$^\circ$ switching in strictly compensated collinear antiferromagnets remains a major challenge in antiferromagnetic spintronics. Electrical writing of perpendicularly magnetized ferromagnets by out-of-plane orbital…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-06 Hui Wang , Huiying Liu , Yanfeng Ge , Xukun Feng , Jiaojiao Zhu , Jin Cao , Cong Xiao , Shengyuan A. Yang , Lay Kee Ang

Skyrmions and other chiral spin textures have been extensively studied as potential building blocks for novel spintronic devices. Hall-resistivity anomalies that deviate from magnetization scaling, known as the topological Hall effect, have…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-31 BoCheng Yu , JiaLiang Jiang , Jing Meng , XiaoYan Zhu , Jie Ma , HaiFeng Du , QingFeng Zhan , Jin Tang , Yang Xu , Tian Shang

In this work we perform investigations of the competition between domain-wall pinning and attraction by anti-notches and finite device borders. The conditions for optimal geometries, which can attain a stable domain-wall pinning, are…

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…

We study current-induced dynamics of spin textures in thin magnetic nanowires. We derive effective equations of motion describing the dynamics of the domain-wall soft modes associated with topological defects. Because the magnetic domain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-30 O. A. Tretiakov , Ar. Abanov

Antiferromagnets as active elements of spintronics can be faster than their ferromagnetic counterparts and more robust to magnetic noise. Owing to the strongly exchange-coupled magnetic sublattice structure, antiferromagnetic order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-31 Olena Gomonay , Vincent Baltz , Arne Brataas , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

The ever-growing demand for device miniaturization and energy efficiency in data storage and computing technology has prompted a shift towards antiferromagnetic (AFM) topological spin textures as information carriers, owing to their…

Spin-polarized antiferromagnets (AFMs), including altermagnets, noncollinear AFMs, and two-dimensional layer-polarized AFMs, have emerged as transformative materials for next-generation spintronic and optoelectronic technologies. These…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-23 Zhenzhou Guo , Xiaotian Wang , Wenhong Wang , Gang Zhang , Xiaodong Zhou , Zhenxiang Cheng

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

The rise of twistronics has revolutionized the field of condensed matter physics, and more specifically the future applications of two-dimensional materials. At small twist angles, the microscopic world becomes strongly correlated, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-20 D. Soriano

Topologically distinct magnetic structures like skyrmions, domain walls, and the uniformly magnetized state have multiple applications in logic devices, sensors, and as bits of information. One of the most promising concepts for applying…

We investigate ferrimagnetic domain wall dynamics induced by circularly polarized spin waves theoretically and numerically. We find that the direction of domain wall motion depends on both the circular polarization of spin waves and the…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-11-06 Se-Hyeok Oh , Se Kwon Kim , Jiang Xiao , Kyung-Jin Lee