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Ultrafast domain wall propagation due to the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction
D Mancilla-Almonacid1, R Jaeschke-Ubiergo2, A S Núñez2
1Departamento de Física, CEDENNA, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, USACH, Av. Ecuador 3493, Santiago, Chile.
Abstract:
It is shown that the interplay between curvature and interfacial Dzyalonshinsky-Moriya interaction (DMI) is a pathway to ultrafast domain wall (DW) dynamics in ferromagnetic nanotubes. In this work, we theoretically study the effect that interfacial DMI has on the average velocity of a vortex DW in thin ferromagnetic nanotubes grown around a core composed of heavy atoms. Our main result shows that by delaying the Walker breakdown instability, the DW average velocity is of the order of 103 m s-1, which is greater than usual values for these systems. The remarkable velocities achieved through this configuration could greatly benefit the development of spintronic devices.
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