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Domain wall diode based on functionally graded Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2020-06-24 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We present a general approach for studying the dynamics of domain walls in biaxial ferromagnetic stripes with functionally graded Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). By engineering the spatial profile of the DMI parameter we propose the concept of a diode, which implements filtering of domain walls of certain topological charge and helicity. We base our study on phenomenological Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equations with additional Zhang-Li spin-transfer terms using a collective variable approach. In the effective equations of motion the gradients of DMI play the role of a driving force which competes with current driving. All analytical predictions are confirmed by numerical simulations.

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@article{arxiv.2004.02175,
  title  = {Domain wall diode based on functionally graded Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction},
  author = {Kostiantyn V. Yershov and Volodymyr P. Kravchuk and Denis D. Sheka and Jeroen van den Brink and Avadh Saxena},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.02175},
  year   = {2020}
}
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