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Control of magnetic domain wall motion holds promise for efficient manipulation and transfer of magnetically stored information. Thermal magnon currents, generated by temperature gradients, can be used to move magnetic textures, from domain…

We study current-driven domain-wall (DW) dynamics in antiferromagnets (AFMs) with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). We obtain an exact analytical solution for spiral DW dynamics, applicable to both head-to-head DWs under bulk DMI and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Mu-Kun Lee , Rubén M. Otxoa , Masahito Mochizuki

The magnetization dynamics equation predicts that a domain wall that changes structure should undergo a displacement by itself - automotion - due to the relaxation of the linear momentum that is associated with the wall structure. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Jean-Yves Chauleau , Raphaël Weil , André Thiaville , Jacques Miltat

We theoretically study the interaction of magnons, quanta of spin waves, and a domain wall in a one-dimensional easy-axis antiferromagnet in the presence of an external magnetic field applied along the easy axis. To this end, we begin by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-19 Pengtao Shen , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Se Kwon Kim

The control of domain walls or spin textures is crucial for spintronic applications of antiferromagnets. Despite many efforts, it has been challenging to directly visualize antiferromagnetic domains or domain walls with nanoscale…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-03-06 Paul M. Sass , Wenbo Ge , Jiaqiang Yan , D. Obeysekera , J. J Yang , Weida Wu

The discovery that a spin polarized current can exert a large torque on a ferromagnet through a transfusion of spin angular momentum, offers a new way to control a magnetization by simple current injection, without the help of an applied…

A theory for the spin wave eigenmodes of a Dzyaloshinskii domain wall is presented. These walls are N\'eel-type domain walls that can appear in perpendicularly-magnetized ultrathin ferromagnets in the presence of a sizeable…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-07-07 Pablo Borys , Felipe Garcia-Sanchez , Joo-Von Kim , Robert L. Stamps

Ferroelectric domain walls are a rich source of emergent electronic properties and unusual polar order. Recent studies showed that the configuration of ferroelectric walls can go well beyond the conventional Ising-type structure. N\'eel-,…

Microscopic theory of domain wall dynamics under electric current is reviewed. Domain wall is treated as rigid and planar. The spin-transfer torque and forces on the wall are derived based on the $s$-$d$ exchange interaction between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Gen Tatara , Hiroshi Kohno , Junya Shibata

We demonstrate the possibility to drive an antiferromagnet domain-wall at high velocities by field-like N\'{e}el spin-orbit torques. Such torques arise from current-induced local fields that alternate their orientation on each sub-lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-06 O. Gomonay , T. Jungwirth , J. Sinova

Domain walls are the topological defects that mediate polarization reversal in ferroelectrics, and they may exhibit quite different geometric and electronic structures compared to the bulk. Therefore, a detailed atomic-scale understanding…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-01-12 Meng Ye , David Vanderbilt

We propose a Hamiltonian dynamics formalism for the current and magnetic field driven dynamics of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic domain walls in one dimensional systems. To demonstrate the power of this formalism, we derive Hamilton…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-12 Davi R. Rodrigues , Karin Everschor-Sitte , Oleg A. Tretiakov , Jairo Sinova , Ar. Abanov

We present a micromagnetic study of the current-induced domain wall motion in perpendicularly magnetized Pt/Co/AlOx racetracks. We show that the domain wall velocity depends critically on the tilt angle of the wall relative to the current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-27 Manuel Baumgartner , Pietro Gambardella

Nanoscale self-localized topological spin textures, such as domain walls and skyrmions, are of interest for the fundamental physics of magnets and spintronics applications. Ferrimagnets (FiMs), in the region close to the angular momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-29 R. V. Ovcharov , B. A. Ivanov , E. G. Galkina , J. Åkerman , R. S. Khymyn

Spin canting and complex spin textures in antiferromagnetic materials can often be described in terms of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions (DMI). Values for DMI parameters are not easily measurable directly, and often inferred from other…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-24 Jephthah Iyaro , Igor Proskurin , Robert L. Stamps

The current-driven motion of a domain wall (DW) in a ferromagnet with many Bloch lines (BLs) via the spin transfer torque is studied theoretically. It is found that the motion of BLs changes the current-velocity ($j$-$v$) characteristic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-15 Junichi Iwasaki , Naoto Nagaosa

A domain wall in a ferromagnetic one-dimensional nanowire experiences current induced motion due to its coupling with the conduction electrons. When the current is not sufficient to drive the domain wall through the wire, or it is confined…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-13 Nicholas Sedlmayr , Jamal Berakdar

When a spin-polarized current flows through a ferromagnetic (FM) metal, angular momentum is transferred to the background magnetization via spin-transfer torques. In antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials, however, the corresponding problem is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Ran Cheng , Qian Niu

Deterministic control of domain walls orthogonal to the direction of current flow is demonstrated by exploiting spin orbit torque in a perpendicularly polarized Ta/CoFeB/MgO multilayer in presence of an in-plane magnetic field. Notably,…

We theoretically examine a cross effect of magnetic field and charge current on antiferromagnetic domain wall dynamics. Since antiferromagnetic materials are largely insensitive to external magnetic fields in general, charge current has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-16 Yuta Yamane , Olena Gomonay , Hristo Velkov , Jairo Sinova