Domain wall displacement by remote spin-current injection

We demonstrate numerically the ability to displace a magnetic domain wall (DW) by remote spin current injection. We consider a long and narrow magnetic nanostripe with a single DW. The spin-polarized current is injected perpendicularly to the film plane through a small nanocontact which is located a...

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Main Authors: Skirdkov, P. N., Zvezdin, K. A., Belanovsky, A. D., Grollier, J., Cros, V., Ross, Caroline A., Zvezdin, A. K.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Institute of Physics 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/92038
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2262-1249
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Summary:We demonstrate numerically the ability to displace a magnetic domain wall (DW) by remote spin current injection. We consider a long and narrow magnetic nanostripe with a single DW. The spin-polarized current is injected perpendicularly to the film plane through a small nanocontact which is located at certain distance from the DW initial position. We show that the DW motion can be initiated not only by conventional spin-transfer torque but also by indirect spin-torque, created by remote spin-current injection and then transferred to the DW by the exchange-spring mechanism. An analytical description of this effect is proposed.