Observation of asymmetry in domain wall velocity under transverse magnetic field

K. J. Kim; Y. Yoshimura; T. Okuno; T. Moriyama; S. W. Lee; K. J. Lee; Y. Nakatani; T. Ono

doi:10.1063/1.4944897

Observation of asymmetry in domain wall velocity under transverse magnetic field

K. J. Kim, Y. Yoshimura, T. Okuno, T. Moriyama, S. W. Lee, K. J. Lee, Y. Nakatani, T. Ono

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The dynamics of a magnetic domain wall (DW) under a transverse magnetic field H_y are investigated in two-dimensional (2D) Co/Ni microstrips, where an interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) exists with DMI vector D lying in +y direction. The DW velocity exhibits asymmetric behavior for ±H_y; that is, the DW velocity becomes faster when H_y is applied antiparallel to D. The key experimental results are reproduced in a 2D micromagnetic simulation, which reveals that the interfacial DMI suppresses the periodic change of the average DW angle φ even above the Walker breakdown and that H_y changes φ, resulting in a velocity asymmetry. This suggests that the 2D DW motion, despite its microscopic complexity, simply depends on the average angle of the DW and thus can be described using a one-dimensional soliton model. These findings provide insight into the magnetic DW dynamics in 2D systems, which are important for emerging spin-orbitronic applications.

Original language	English
Article number	032504
Journal	APL Materials
Volume	4
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4944897
Publication status	Published - 2016 Mar

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