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We demonstrate deterministic control of dipole-field-stabilized skyrmions by means of spin-orbit torques arising from heavy transition-metal seed layers. Experiments are performed on amorphous Fe/Gd multilayers that are patterned into wires…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-17 Sergio A. Montoya , Robert Tolley , Ian Gilbert , Soong-Geun Je , Mi-Young Im , Eric E. Fullerton

Theoretically, we study the dynamics of a current induced domain wall in the bi-layer structure consists of a ferromagnetic layer and a non-magnetic metal layer with strong spin-orbit coupling in the presence of spin-Hall effect. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-21 R. Arun , P. Sabareesan , M. Daniel

We study the effect of a domain wall on the electronic transport in ferromagnetic quantum wires. Due to the transverse confinement, conduction channels arise. In the presence of a domain wall, spin up and spin down electrons in these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Victor A. Gopar , Dietmar Weinmann , Rodolfo A. Jalabert , Robert L. Stamps

A domain wall in a magnet with easy-axis anisotropy is shown to harbor spin superfluid associated with its spontaneous breaking of the U(1) spin-rotational symmetry. The spin superfluid is shown to have several topological properties, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Se Kwon Kim , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

It was recently discovered that, depending on their symmetries, collinear antiferromagnets may break spin degeneracy in momentum space, even in absence of spin-orbit coupling. Such systems, dubbed altermagnets, have electronic bands with a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-16 Kostiantyn V. Yershov , Volodymyr P. Kravchuk , Maria Daghofer , Jeroen van den Brink

Skyrmions can be driven by spin-orbit torques as a result of the spin Hall effect. Here we model an additional contribution in ultra-thin multilayers, arising from the spin accumulation at heavy metal / ferromagnetic interfaces and observe…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 C. R. MacKinnon , S. Lepadatu , T. Mercer , P. Bissell

Non-adiabatic correction to spin transfer torque arising from fast-varying spin texture is calculated treating conduction electron fully quantum mechanically. The torque is non-local in space, and is shown to equivalent to a force (due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Gen Tatara , Hiroshi Kohno , Junya Shibata , Yann Lemaho , Kyung-Jin Lee

A domain wall and spin supercurrent can coexist in magnets with easy-cone anisotropy owing to simultaneous spontaneous breaking of Z$_2$ and U(1) symmetries. Their interaction is theoretically investigated in quasi one-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 Se Kwon Kim , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

The magnetic textures of Weyl semimetals are embedded into their topological structure and interact dynamically with it. Here, we examine electric field-induced structural phase transitions in domain walls mediated by the spin transfer…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-20 Shiva Heidari , Reza Asgari , Dimitrie Culcer

Antiferromagnets with vanishingly small (or zero) magnetization are interesting candidates for spintronics applications. In the present paper we propose two models for description of the current-induced phenomena in antiferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-03 Helen Gomonay , Vadim Loktev

We report the direct measurement of the non-adiabatic component of the spin-torque in domain walls. Our method is independent of both the pinning of the domain wall in the wire as well as of the Gilbert damping parameter. We demonstrate…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 I. M. Miron , P. -J. Zermatten , G. Gaudin , S. Auffret , B. Rodmacq , A. Schuhl

Within the s-d model description, we derive the current-driven spin torque in a ferromagnet, taking explicitly into account a spin-relaxing Caldeira-Leggett bath coupling to the s-electrons. We derive Bloch-Redfield equations of motion for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 M. Thorwart , R. Egger

When a foreign atom is placed on a surface of a metal, the surrounding sea of electrons responds screening the additional charge leading to oscillations or ripples. On surfaces, those electrons are sometimes confined to two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Samir Lounis , Andreas Bringer , Stefan Blügel

We study the spin-transfer torque and magnetoresistance of a ferromagnet$\mid$superconductor$\mid$ferromagnet spin-valve, allowing for an arbitrary magnetization misorientation and treating both s-wave and d-wave symmetries of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Linder , T. Yokoyama , A. Sudbø

We have performed an experimental and modeling-based study of the spin-orbit torque-induced growth of magnetic stripe domains in heavy metal/ferromagnet thin-film heterostructures that possess chiral N\'eel-type domain walls due to an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-04 Jeffrey A. Brock , Daan Swinkels , Bert Koopmans , Eric E. Fullerton

Use of a spin polarized current for the manipulation of magnetic domain walls in ferromagnetic nanowires has been the subject of intensive research for many years. Recently, due to technological advancements, creating nano-contacts with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-10 Hamidreza Kazemi , Sebastian Eggert , Nicholas Sedlmayr

Spin-transfer-torque, a transfer of angular momentum between the electron spin and the local magnetic moments, is a promising and key mechanism to control ferromagnetic materials in modern spintronic devices . However, much less attention…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-02-20 T. Moriyama , M. Nagata , K. Tanaka , K-J. Kim , H. Almasi , W. Wang , T. Ono

Control of magnetic domain wall movement by the spin-polarized current looks promising for creation of a new generation of magnetic memory devices. A necessary condition for this is the domain wall shift by a low-density current. Here I…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-11 Vladimir L. Korenev

A moving magnetic skyrmion exhibits transverse deflection. This so-called skyrmion Hall effect has been explained by the Thiele equation. Here, we provide an alternative interpretation of the skyrmion Hall effect based on the dynamics of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-11 Kyoung-Woong Moon , Jungbum Yoon , Changsoo Kim , Jae-Hun Sim , Se Kwon Kim , Soong-Geun Je , Chanyong Hwang

We formulate a theory of spin-transfer torques in antiferromagnets, which covers the small to large limits of the exchange coupling energy relative to the kinetic energy of the inter-sublattice electron dynamics. Our theory suggests a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-10 Yuta Yamane , Jun'ichi Ieda , Jairo Sinova