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Spin chirality in antiferromagnets offers new opportunities for spintronics. The kagome antiferromagnet Mn3Sn is a paradigmatic material in which the antiferromagnetic order parameter can be detected and controlled by electrical means.…

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

Antiferromagnets that display very small stray magnetic field are ideal for spintronic applications. Of particular interest are non-collinear, chiral antiferromagnets of the type Mn3X (X=Sn, Ge), which display a large magnetotransport…

We theoretically investigate chiral domain walls (DWs) formed in radially magnetized nanotubes composed of ultrathin layers with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA). Unlike those with in-plane magnetic anisotropy, the stable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-15 Nobuyuki Umetsu , Hiroki Tokuhira , Michael Quinsat , Hideto Horii , Tsuyoshi Kondo , Masaki Kado

The motion of chiral magnetic domain walls (DWs) driven by spin-orbit torque (SOT) has been extensively studied in heavy metal/ferromagnet heterostructures with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. This study specifically focuses on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Nobuyuki Umetsu , Michael Quinsat , Susumu Hashimoto , Tsuyoshi Kondo , Masaki Kado

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

A magnetic Weyl semimetal is a recent focus of extensive research as it may exhibit large and robust transport phenomena associated with topologically protected Weyl points in momentum space. Since a magnetic texture provides a handle for…

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

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…

Domain walls (DWs) in perpendicularly magnetized nanotracks (PMNTs) with interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) have become the primary objects of theoretical and experimental interest due to their technological suitability in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-22 Yue Zhang , Mao-Kang Shen , Zai-Dong Li , Xiao-Fei Yang , Long You

The generation and control of spin currents are crucial for advancing next-generation spintronic technologies. These technologies depend on materials capable of efficiently sourcing and interconverting spin and charge currents, while…

We present a theoretical formalism to address the dynamics of textured, noncolliear antiferromagnets subject to spin current injection. We derive sine-Gordon type equations of motion for the antiferromagnets, which are applicable to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-21 Yuta Yamane , Olena Gomonay , Jairo Sinova

Current-driven domain wall (DW) motion in magnetic wires with asymmetric notches was investigated by means of magnetic force microscopy. It was found that the critical current density necessary for the current-driven DW motion depended on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Himeno , S. Kasai , T. Ono

The spin-transfer torque motion of magnetic domain walls (DWs) in a CoB/Ni-based nanowire driven by a low current density of (1.12\pm0.8)\times10^{11} A m^{-2} has been observed indirectly by magnetotransport measurements. A high DW…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-08-29 Duc-The Ngo , Norihito Watanabe , Hiroyuki Awano

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

Chirality and current-driven dynamics of topologically nontrivial 360$^{\circ}$ domain walls (360DWs) in magnetic heterostructures (MHs) are systematically investigated. For MHs with normal substrates, the static 360DWs are N\'{e}el-type…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Mei Li , Jie Lu

Efficient electrical manipulation of domain walls is key to developing magnetic devices with fast switching capabilities and low energy consumption. Here we demonstrate Bloch-type domain wall velocities exceeding 1 km s$^{-1}$ in the…

Chiral magnetic materials provide a number of challenging issues such as the highly efficient domain wall (DW) and skyrmion motions driven by electric current, as of the operation principles of emerging spintronic devices. The DWs in the…

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…

Conventional magnetic domain walls are characterized by reorientation of local spins. However, what occurs at the boundary of itinerant magnets is largely unknown. Here using spin-sensitive scanning tunneling microscopy, we investigated the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-05 Yining Hu , Xu Wang , Chen Chen , Qingle Zhang , Dongming Zhao , Tianzhen Zhang , Chenxi Wang , Qiang-Hua Wang , Donglai Feng , Tong Zhang
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