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Spin wave nonreciprocity in domain walls (DWs) allows for unidirectional signal processing in reconfigurable magnonic circuits. Using scanning transmission x-ray microscopy (STXM), we examined coherently-excited magnons propagating in…

Novel noncollinear antiferromagnets with spontaneous time-reversal symmetry breaking, nontrivial band topology, and unconventional transport properties have received immense research interest over the past decade due to their rich physics…

Discovering alternative ways to drive domain wall (DW) dynamics is crucial for advancing spintronic applications. Here we demonstrate via atomistic spin dynamics simulations that optical torques can efficiently drive 90^{\circ} DWs in the…

Perpendicularly magnetized materials have attracted tremendous interest due to their high anisotropy, which results in extremely narrow, nano-sized domain walls. As a result, the recently studied current-induced domain wall motion (CIDWM)…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-11 P. P. J. Haazen , E. Murè , J. H. Franken , R. Lavrijsen , H. J. M. Swagten , B. Koopmans

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

The current-driven motion of magnetic domain walls (DWs) is the working principle of magnetic racetrack memories. In this type of spintronic technology, high current densities are used to propel DW motion in magnetic nanowires, causing…

The time it takes to accelerate an object from zero to a given velocity depends on the applied force and the environment. If the force ceases, it takes exactly the same time to completely decelerate. A magnetic domain wall (DW) is a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-29 Jacob Torrejon , Eduardo Martinez , Masamitsu Hayashi

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

The antiferromagnetic Weyl semimetal Mn3Sn has attracted wide attention due to their vast anomalous transverse transport properties despite barely net magnetization. So far, the magnetic properties of Mn3Sn have been experimentally…

Antiferromagnetic materials have a vanishingly small net magnetization, which generates weak dipolar fields and makes them robust against external magnetic perturbation and rapid magnetization dynamics, as dictated by the geometric mean of…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-19 Ankit Shukla , Siyuan Qian , Shaloo Rakheja

The conductive domain wall (CDW) is extensively investigated in ferroelectrics, which can be considered as a quasi-two-dimensional reconfigurable conducting channel embedded into an insulating material. Therefore, it is highly important for…

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

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

Finding a new control parameter for magnetic domain wall (DW) motion in magnetic nanostructures is important in general and in particular for the spintronics applications. Here, we show that a circularly polarized magnetic field (CPMF) at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-13 P. Yan , X. R. Wang

Noncollinear spin textures in ferromagnetic ultrathin films are currently the subject of renewed interest since the discovery of the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). This antisymmetric exchange interaction selects a…

This work analyzes the propagation of a transverse domain wall (DW) motion under the action of an electric current along a nanowire (NW) with a curvature gradient. Our results evidence that the curvature gradient induces a chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-21 G. H. R. Bittencourt , M. Castro , A. S. Nunez , D. Altbir , S. Allende , V. L. Carvalho-Santos

Memory and logic devices that encode information in magnetic domains rely on the controlled injection of domain walls to reach their full potential. In this work, we exploit the chiral coupling induced by the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-27 T. Phuong Dao , Marvin Müller , Zhaochu Luo , Manuel Baumgartner , Aleš Hrabec , Laura J. Heyderman , Pietro Gambardella

Recently, unconventional spin-orbit torques (SOTs) with tunable spin generation open new pathways for designing novel magnetization control for cutting-edge spintronics innovations. A leading research thrust is to develop field-free…

The generation of spin currents and their application to the manipulation of magnetic states is fundamental to spintronics. Of particular interest are chiral antiferromagnets that exhibit properties typical of ferromagnetic materials even…

Domain walls are the transition regions between two magnetic domains. These objects have been very relevant during the last decade, not only due to their intrinsic interest in the development of novel spintronics devices but also because of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 Oscar Alejos , Víctor Raposo , Eduardo Martínez