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The transport properties of finite nanotubes placed in a magnetic field parallel to their axes are investigated. Upon including spin-orbit coupling and curvature effects, two main phenomena are analyzed which crucially depend on the tube's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-28 Miriam del Valle , Magdalena Marganska , Milena Grifoni

According to the spin-torque model, current-driven magnetic dynamics in ferromagnetic multilayers is determined by the transfer of electron spin perpendicular to the layers' magnetizations. By separating the largest contributions to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Urazhdin

This work analyzes the propagation of a transverse domain wall (DW) motion under the action of an electric current along a nanowire (NW) with a curvature gradient. Our results evidence that the curvature gradient induces a chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-21 G. H. R. Bittencourt , M. Castro , A. S. Nunez , D. Altbir , S. Allende , V. L. Carvalho-Santos

A strategy to drive skyrmion motion by a combination of an anisotropy gradient and spin Hall effect has recently been demonstrated. Here, we study the fundamental properties of this type of motion by combining micromagnetic simulations and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Riccardo Tomasello , Stavros Komineas , Giulio Siracusano , Mario Carpentieri , Giovanni Finocchio

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically-protected spin textures with attractive properties suitable for high-density and low-power spintronic device applications. Much effort has been dedicated to understanding the dynamical behaviours of the…

Magnetic skyrmions are believed to be the promising candidate of information carriers in spintronics. However, the skyrmion Hall effect due to the nontrivial topology of skyrmions can induce a skyrmion accumulation or even annihilation at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Xiaofan Wang , X. S. Wang , C. Wang , Huanhuan Yang , Yunshan Cao , Peng Yan

Magnetic textures can be manipulated by electric currents via the mechanisms of spin-transfer and spin-orbit-torques. We review how these torques can be exploited to create chiral magnetic textures in magnets with broken inversion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 Jan Masell , Karin Everschor-Sitte

Current-driven dynamics of spin textures plays a pivotal role in potential applications for electronic devices. While two-dimensional magnetic skyrmions with topologically nontrivial spin textures have garnered significant interest, their…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-25 Kotaro Shimizu , Shun Okumura , Yasuyuki Kato , Yukitoshi Motome

The Skyrmion Hall Effect (SkHE) observed in ferromagnetic (FM) and ferrimagnetic (FI) skyrmions traveling due to a spin-polarized current can be a problematic issue when it comes to technological applications. By investigating the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-16 R. C. Silva , R. L. Silva , J. C. Moreira , W. A. Moura-Melo , A. R. Pereira

Developed half a century ago, Thiele's equation has played a crucial role in describing the motion of magnetic textures, ranging from simple magnetic domains to exotic magnetic solitons like skyrmions and hopfions. However, it remains a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-28 Huanhuan Yang , Lingling Song , Yunshan Cao , Peng Yan

Magnetic skyrmionium is a skyrmion-like spin texture with nanoscale size and high mobility. It is a topologically trivial but dynamically stable structure, which can be used as a non-volatile information carrier for next-generation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-25 Xue Liang , Xichao Zhang , Laichuan Shen , Jing Xia , Motohiko Ezawa , Xiaoxi Liu , Yan Zhou

Reliable transport of magnetic skyrmions is required for any future skyrmion-based information processing devices. Here we present a micromagnetic study of the in-plane current-driven motion of a skyrmion in a ferromagnetic nanotrack with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-21 Xichao Zhang , Jing Xia , G. P. Zhao , Xiaoxi Liu , Yan Zhou

In this work, we study the microscopic dynamics of distorted skyrmions in strained chiral magnets [K. Shibata et al., Nat. Nanotech. 10, 589 (2015)] under gradient magnetic field or electric current by Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert simulations of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-07-03 J. Chen , J. J. Liang , J. H. Yu , M. H. Qin , Z. Fan , M. Zeng , X. B. Lu , X. S. Gao , S. Dong , J. -M. Liu

In systems with strong spin-orbit coupling, the relationship between spin-transfer torque and the divergence of the spin current is generalized to a relation between spin transfer torques, total angular momentum current, and mechanical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Paul M. Haney , M. D. Stiles

Stimulated generally by recent interest in the novel spin Hall effect, the nonrelativistic quantum mechanical conserved currents, taken into account of spin-orbit coupling, are rigorously formulated based on the symmetries of system and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Yong Wang , Ke Xia , Zhao-Bin Su , Zhongshui Ma

We study the geometrical conditions for stabilizing magnetic skyrmions in cylindrical nanostrips and nanotubes of ferromagnetic materials with chiral interactions. We obtain the low-temperature equilibrium state of the system implementing a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-28 Dimitris Kechrakos , Lida Tzannetou , Aristotelis Patsopoulos

Magnetic skyrmions are swirling magnetic textures that can be efficiently driven with spin-orbit torques with a deflected trajectory. However, pinning slows skyrmions down and alters their trajectory, which prevents a quantitative…

Using one of the methods of quantum nonequilibrium statistical physics we have investigated the spin transport transverse to the normal metal/ferromagnetic insulator interface in hybrid nanostructures. An approximation of the effective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 I. I. Lyapilin , M. S. Okorokov , V. V. Ustinov

Current-induced spin torque and magnetization dynamics in the presence of spin diffusion in magnetic textures is studied theoretically. We uncover an additional torque on the form \sim{\bm\nabla}^2[{\bf M}x({\bf u}\cdot{\bm \nabla}){\bf…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-18 A. Manchon , W. -S. Kim , K. -J. Lee

Scattering of electrons from chiral spin textures such as the skyrmions is an emerging research area due to its richness in topological quantum transport, which is significant for spintronic devices. We study the dynamical process of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Hareram Swain , Arijit Mandal , S. Satpathy , B. R. K. Nanda