English

Current-driven periodic domain wall creation in ferromagnetic nano-wires

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2016-09-07 v1

Abstract

We predict the electrical generation and injection of domain walls into a ferromagnetic nano-wire without the need of an assisting magnetic field. Our analytical and numerical results show that above a critical current jcj_{c} domain walls are injected into the nano-wire with a period T(jjc)1/2T \sim (j-j_{c})^{-1/2}. Importantly, domain walls can be produced periodically even in a simple exchange ferromagnet with uniaxial anisotropy, without requiring any standard "twisting" interaction like Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya or dipole-dipole interactions. We show analytically that this process and the period exponents are universal and do not depend on the peculiarities of the microscopic Hamiltonian. Finally we give a specific proposal for an experimental realization.

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@article{arxiv.1607.03336,
  title  = {Current-driven periodic domain wall creation in ferromagnetic nano-wires},
  author = {Matthias Sitte and Karin Everschor-Sitte and Thierry Valet and Davi R. Rodrigues and Jairo Sinova and Artem Abanov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.03336},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

7 pages, 3 figures; this article supersedes arXiv:1512.00784

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