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Thermal gradients for the stabilization of a single domain wall in magnetic nanowires
J Mejía-López1, E A Velásquez2, J Mazo-Zuluaga3
1Centro de Investigación en Nanotecnología y Materiales Avanzados CIEN-UC, Facultad de Física, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. CEDENNA. Santiago, Chile.
Abstract:
By means of Monte Carlo simulations we studied field driven nucleation and propagation of transverse domain walls (DWs) in magnetic nanowires subjected to temperature gradients. Simulations identified the existence of critical thermal gradients that allow the existence of reversal processes driven by a single DW. Critical thermal gradients depend on external parameters such as temperature, magnetic field and wire length, and can be experimentally obtained through the measurement of the mean velocity of the magnetization reversal as a function of the temperature gradient. Our results show that temperature gradients provide a high degree of control over DW propagation, which is of great importance for technological applications.
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