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The interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) can be exploited in magnetic thin films to realize lateral chirally coupled systems, providing a way to couple different sections of a magnetic racetrack and realize interconnected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Guillaume Beaulieu , Zhaochu Luo , Víctor Raposo , Laura J. Heyderman , Pietro Gambardella , Eduardo Martínez , Aleš Hrabec

Neuromorphic computing (NC) architecture has shown its suitability for energy-efficient computation. Amongst several systems, spin-orbit torque (SOT) based domain wall (DW) devices are one of the most energy-efficient contenders for NC. To…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-16 Durgesh Kumar , Ramu Maddu , Hong Jing Chung , Hasibur Rahaman , Tianli Jin , Sabpreet Bhatti , Sze Ter Lim , Rachid Sbiaa , S. N. Piramanayagam

Complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) devices display volatile characteristics, and are not well suited for analog applications such as neuromorphic computing. Spintronic devices, on the other hand, exhibit both non-volatile and…

Effective control and readout of qubits form the technical foundation of next-generation, transformative quantum information sciences and technologies. The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center, an intrinsic three-level spin system, is naturally…

The fundamental limits currently faced by traditional computing devices necessitate the exploration of new ways to store, compute and transmit information. Here, we propose a three-dimensional (3D) magnetic interconnector that exploits…

Natural interfaces in ferroic oxides have developed into versatile playgrounds for studying electronic correlation effects in 2D systems. The microscopic origin of the emergent local electronic properties is often debated, however, as…

Magnetic domain walls (DWs) are topological defects that exhibit robust low-energy modes that can be harnessed for classical and neuromorphic computing. However, the quantum nature of these modes has been elusive thus far. Using the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-09 Mircea Trif , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

We present a theoretical study of spin-dependent transport through a ferromagnetic domain wall. With an increase of the number of components of the exchange coupling, we have observed that the variance of the conductance becomes half. As…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 J. Ohe , M. Yamamoto , T. Ohtsuki , K. Slevin

The divide between the realms of atomic-scale quantum particles and lithographically-defined nanostructures is rapidly being bridged. Hybrid quantum systems comprising ultracold gas-phase atoms and substrate-bound devices already offer…

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

For over ten years, arrays of interacting single-domain nanomagnets, referred to as artificial spin ices, have been engineered with the aim to study frustration in model spin systems. Here, we use Fresnel imaging to study the reversal…

We investigate a magnetic domain-wall (DW) motion in two dynamic regimes, creep and flow regimes, near the angular momentum compensation temperature (T_A) of ferrimagnet. In the flow regime, the DW speed shows sharp increase at T_A due to…

We theoretically study the antiferromagnetic domain wall motion actuated by an inhomogeneous external magnetic field. The Lagrangian and the equations of motion of antiferromagnetic spins under an inhomogeneous magnetic field are derived,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Jotaro J. Nakane , Hiroshi Kohno

In the last decade, two revolutionary concepts in nano magnetism emerged from research for storage technologies and advanced information processing. The first suggests the use of magnetic domain walls (DWs) in ferromagnetic nanowires to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-07 N. Sato , K. Schultheiss , L. Körber , N. Puwenberg , T. Mühl , A. A. Awad , S. S. P. K. Arekapudi , O. Hellwig , J. Fassbender , H. Schultheiss

Manipulation of magnetic domain walls via a helicity-independent laser pulse has recently been experimentally demonstrated and various physical mechanisms leading to domain wall dynamics have been discussed. Spin-dependent superdiffusive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Pavel Baláž , Karel Carva , Ulrike Ritzmann , Pablo Maldonado , Peter M. Oppeneer

Ferroelectric domain wall motion is fundamental to the switching properties of ferroelectric devices and is influenced by a wide range of factors including spatial disorder within the material and thermal noise. We build a…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-08 Nora Bauer , Sabine M. Neumayer , Petro Maksymovych , Maxim O. Lavrentovich

We present in-situ transmission electron microscopy observations of domain wall motion in thin freestanding potassium niobate single-crystals. We observe that not all domains of a given polarization orientation are equally switchable in…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Krishnan , M. M. J. Treacy , M. E. Bisher , P. Chandra , P. B. Littlewood

We numerically compute current-induced spin-transfer torques for antiferromagnetic domain walls, based on a linear response theory in a tight-binding model. We find that, unlike for ferromagnetic domain wall motion, the contribution of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-24 Hyeon-Jong Park , Yunboo Jeong , Se-Hyeok Oh , Gyungchoon Go , Jung Hyun Oh , Kyoung-Whan Kim , Hyun-Woo Lee , Kyung-Jin Lee

The discovery of magnetism in two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) materials has flourished a new endeavour of fundamental problems in magnetism as well as potential applications in computing, sensing and storage technologies. Of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-04 Ignacio M. Alliati , Richard F. L. Evans , Kostya S. Novoselov , Elton J. G. Santos

Ferroic materials (ferromagnetic, ferroelectric, ferroelastic) usually divide into domains with different orientations of their order parameter. Coupling different ferroic systems creates new functionalities, for instance the electrical…