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Searching for new methods controlling antiferromagnetic (AFM) domain wall is one of the most important issues for AFM spintronic device operation. In this work, we study theoretically the domain wall motion of an AFM nanowire, driven by the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-02-26 D. L. Wen , Z. Y. Chen , W. H. Li , M. H. Qin , D. Y. Chen , Z. Fan , M. Zeng , X. B. Lu , X. S. Gao , J. M. Liu

We theoretically investigate dynamics of antiferromagnetic domain walls driven by spin-orbit torques in antiferromagnet/heavy metal bilayers. We show that spin-orbit torques drive antiferromagnetic domain walls much faster than…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-24 Takayuki Shiino , Se-Hyeok Oh , Paul M. Haney , Seo-Won Lee , Gyungchoon Go , Byong-Guk Park , Kyung-Jin Lee

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

As a collective quasiparticle excitation of the magnetic order in magnetic materials, spin wave, or magnon when quantized, can propagate in both conducting and insulating materials. Like the manipulation of its optical counterpart, the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-11-28 Jin Lan , Weichao Yu , Jiang Xiao

Magnonics is a research field complementary to spintronics, in which the quanta of spin waves (magnons) replace electrons as information carriers, promising less energy dissipation. The development of ultrafast nanoscale magnonic logic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-21 J. R. Hortensius , D. Afanasiev , M. Matthiesen , R. Leenders , R. Citro , A. V. Kimel , R. V. Mikhaylovskiy , B. A. Ivanov , A. D. Caviglia

We study theoretically domain wall (DW) magnons-elementary collective excitations of magnetic DWs -- in easy-axis layered van der Waals (vdW) antiferromagnets, where they behave as normal modes of coupled spin superfluids. We uncover that,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-02 Mohammad Mushfiqur Rahman , Avinash Rustagi , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Pramey Upadhyaya

Future applications of antiferromagnets (AFs) in many spintronics devices rely on the precise manipulation of domain walls. The conventional approach using static magnetic fields is inefficient due to the low susceptibility of AFs. Recently…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-03 Olena Gomonay , Mathias Kläui , Jairo Sinova

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

Antiferromagnets (AFMs) are promising platforms for the transmission of quantum information via magnons (the quanta of spin waves), offering advantages over ferromagnets with regard to dissipation, speed of response, and immunity to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-25 Yue Sun , Fanhao Meng , Changmin Lee , Aljoscha Soll , Hongrui Zhang , Ramamoorthy Ramesh , Jie Yao , Zdenĕk Sofer , Joseph Orenstein

The control of magnetic domain walls is essential for the magnetic-based memory and logic applications. As an elementary excitation of magnetic order, spin wave is capable of moving magnetic domain walls just as the conducting electric…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-18 Weichao Yu , Jin Lan , Jiang Xiao

Domain walls in ferrimagnets and antiferromagnets behave as relativistic sine-Gordon solitons with the spin-wave group velocity setting the ultimate velocity of domain walls and speed of magnetic devices. While this relativistic regime has…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-23 Pietro Diona , Luca Maranzana , Sergey Artyukhin , Giacomo Sala

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

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

Spintronic devices, whose operation is based on the motion of a magnetic domain wall (DW), have been proposed recently. If a DW could be driven directly by flowing an electric current instead of a magnetic field, the performance and…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Akinobu Yamaguchi , Teruo Ono , Saburo Nasu , Kousaku Miyake , Ko Mibu , Teruya Shinjo

Ultrafast optical control of magnetic textures offers new opportunities for energy-efficient, high-speed spintronic devices. While uniform magnetization reversal via all-optical switching is well established, the formation dynamics of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Yuzhu Fan , Gaolong Cao , Junlin Wang , Sheng Jiang , Jing Wu , Johan Åkerman , Jonas Weissenrieder

Spin-orbitronics and single pulse all-optical switching (AOS) of magnetization are two major successes of the rapidly advancing field of nanomagnetism in recent years, with high potential for enabling novel, fast and energy-efficient memory…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-26 Pingzhi Li , Thomas J. Kools , Reinoud Lavrijsen , Bert Koopmans

We theoretically investigate the dynamics of atomic domain walls (DWs) in antiferromagnets driven by a spin-orbit field. For a DW with the width of a few lattice constants, we identify a Peierls-like pinning effect, with the depinning field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-05 Huanhuan Yang , H. Y. Yuan , Ming Yan , Peng Yan

Antiferromagnets (AFMs) are promising materials for future high-frequency field-free spintronic applications. Self-localized spin structures can enhance their capabilities and introduce new functionalities to AFM-based devices. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-17 R. V. Ovcharov , B. A. Ivanov , J. Åkerman , R. S. Khymyn

We present a theoretical study of spin-wave scattering by a twisted domain wall (DW) in a two-dimensional ferromagnet with easy-axis anisotropy. While the twisted DW generates an effective gauge field for spin waves, leading to a deflection…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-15 Ehsan Faridi , Se Kwon Kim , Giovanni Vignale

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…