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Measurement of the tilt of a moving domain wall shows precession-free dynamics in compensated ferrimagnets

One fundamental obstacle to efficient ferromagnetic spintronics is magnetic precession, which intrinsically limits the dynamics of magnetic textures. We experimentally demonstrate that this precession vanishes when the net angular momentum is compensated in domain walls driven by spin–orbit torque i...

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Autores principales: Haltz, E., Sampaio, J., Krishnia, S., Berges, L., Weil, R., Mougin, A.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7529739/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33004853
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-73049-5
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Sampaio, J.
Krishnia, S.
Berges, L.
Weil, R.
Mougin, A.
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description One fundamental obstacle to efficient ferromagnetic spintronics is magnetic precession, which intrinsically limits the dynamics of magnetic textures. We experimentally demonstrate that this precession vanishes when the net angular momentum is compensated in domain walls driven by spin–orbit torque in a ferrimagnetic GdFeCo/Pt track. We use transverse in-plane fields to provide a robust and parameter-free measurement of the domain wall internal magnetisation angle, demonstrating that, at the angular compensation, the DW tilt is zero, and thus the magnetic precession that caused it is suppressed. Our results highlight the mechanism of faster and more efficient dynamics in materials with multiple spin lattices and vanishing net angular momentum, promising for high-speed, low-power spintronic applications.
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spelling pubmed-75297392020-10-02 Measurement of the tilt of a moving domain wall shows precession-free dynamics in compensated ferrimagnets Haltz, E. Sampaio, J. Krishnia, S. Berges, L. Weil, R. Mougin, A. Sci Rep Article One fundamental obstacle to efficient ferromagnetic spintronics is magnetic precession, which intrinsically limits the dynamics of magnetic textures. We experimentally demonstrate that this precession vanishes when the net angular momentum is compensated in domain walls driven by spin–orbit torque in a ferrimagnetic GdFeCo/Pt track. We use transverse in-plane fields to provide a robust and parameter-free measurement of the domain wall internal magnetisation angle, demonstrating that, at the angular compensation, the DW tilt is zero, and thus the magnetic precession that caused it is suppressed. Our results highlight the mechanism of faster and more efficient dynamics in materials with multiple spin lattices and vanishing net angular momentum, promising for high-speed, low-power spintronic applications. Nature Publishing Group UK 2020-10-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7529739/ /pubmed/33004853 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-73049-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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title_short Measurement of the tilt of a moving domain wall shows precession-free dynamics in compensated ferrimagnets
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7529739/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33004853
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-73049-5
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