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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

Noncollinear antiferromagnets with novel magnetic orders, vanishingly small net magnetization and exotic spin related properties hold enormous promise for developing next-generation, transformative spintronic applications. A major ongoing…

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

Using density functional theory implemented within a tight-binding linear muffin-tin orbital method we perform calculations of electronic, magnetic and transport properties of ferromagnetic free-standing fcc Co wires with diameters up to…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 R. F. Sabirianov , A. K. Solanki , J. D. Burton , S. S. Jaswal , E. Y. Tsymbal

We study domain wall (DW) dynamics in permalloy nanowires excited by alternating spin-polarized current applied perpendicular to the nanowire. Spin torque ferromagnetic resonance measurements reveal that DW oscillations at a pinning site in…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-29 C. T. Boone , J. A. Katine , M. Carey , J. R. Childress , X. Cheng , I. N. Krivorotov

N\'eel magnetic domain walls that are stabilized by achiral energy terms instead of the usual Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction will be bistable, with the two possible chiral forms being degenerate. Here we focus on the theoretical study of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-14 Eloi Haltz , Kévin J. A. Franke , Christopher H. Marrows

We investigate magnetic domain wall (MDW) dynamics induced by applied electric fields in ferromagnetic-ferroelectric thin-film heterostructures. In contrast to conventional driving mechanisms where MDW motion is induced directly by magnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-01-17 Ben Van de Wiele , Lasse Laurson , Kévin Franke , Sebastiaan van Dijken

Magnetic domain walls, which are crucially important in both fundamental physics and technical applications, often have a preference in their form due to many different origins, such as the crystalline shape, lattice symmetry, and magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-09-20 Ryo Ozawa , Satoru Hayami , Kipton Barros , Yukitoshi Motome

The motion of magnetic domain walls in ultrathin magnetic heterostructures driven by current via the spin Hall torque is described. We show results from perpendicularly magnetized CoFeB|MgO heterostructures with various heavy metal…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-26 Jacob Torrejon , Masamitsu Hayashi

A domain wall (DW) in a ferromagnetic nanowire is composed of elementary topological bulk and edge defects with integer and fractional winding numbers, respectively, whose relative spatial arrangement determines the chirality of the DW.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-08 Aakash Pushp , Timothy Phung , Charles Rettner , Brian P. Hughes , See-Hun Yang , Luc Thomas , Stuart S. P. Parkin

Contrary to topological insulators, topological semimetals possess a nontrivial chiral anomaly that leads to negative magnetoresistance and are hosts to both conductive bulk states and topological surface states with intriguing transport…

We investigate theoretically the motion of chiral N\'eel domain walls in perpendicularly magnetized systems driven by in-plane strain gradients. We show that such strain drives domain walls efficiently towards increasing tensile…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-12-01 Mouad Fattouhi , Felipe Garcia-Sanchez , Rocio Yanes , Victor Raposo , Eduardo Martinez , Luis Lopez-Diaz

Electrical manipulation of spins is essential to design state-of-the-art spintronic devices and commonly relies on the spin current injected from a second heavy-metal material. The fact that chiral antiferromagnets produce spin current…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-26 Hang Xie , Xin Chen , Qi Zhang , Zhiqiang Mu , Xinhai Zhang , Binghai Yan , Yihong Wu

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

Fast domain wall motion in systems with perpendicular magnetization is necessary for many novel applications such as the racetrack memory, domain wall logic devices and artificial synapses. The domain wall speed has been greatly improved…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-16 Jingwei Long , Yumeng Yang , Shuyuan Shi , Xuanyao Fong , Gengchiau Liang , Zhifeng Zhu

We present time-resolved measurements of the displacement of magnetic domain-walls (DWs) driven by vertical spin-polarized currents in track-shaped magnetic tunnel junctions. In these structures we observe very high DW velocities (600 m/s)…

The discovery of superconductivity in La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_7$ under pressure has motivated the investigation of a parent spin density wave (SDW) state, which could provide the underlying pairing interaction. Here, we employ resonant soft x-ray…

Quantum materials with strong transport responses to disparate physical quantities are of great fundamental significance and may hold technological potentials. The interplay between interactions and topology drive such responses through the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-12 Y. Chen , J. Gaudet , S. Dasgupta , G. G. Marcus , J. Lin , T. Chen , T. Tomita , M. Ikhlas , Y. Zhao , W. C. Chen , M. B. Stone , O. Tchernyshyov , S. Nakatsuji , C. Broholm

Unconventional magnetic materials including non-collinear antiferromagnets, p-wave magnets and altermagnets, are an emerging frontier for quantum spintronics and hybrid quantum devices. Critical to the application of these materials is…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-09 Freya Johnson , Jan Zemen , Helena Knowles , Lesley F. Cohen

Understanding and manipulating nanoscale domain wall (DW) dynamics is a central topic in magnetism and spintronics for its promising applications in logic and memory devices. In most magnetic systems, inertia affects only transient DW…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 K. Y. Jing , X. R. Wang , H. Y. Yuan