Fast domain wall propagation in uniaxial nanowires with transverse fields

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVB.88.024425arXiv1206.4819MaRDI QIDQ6233849FDOQ6233849

Authors: Arseni Goussev, Ross G. Lund, J. M. Robbins, Valeriy V. Slastikov, Charles Sonnenberg 

Publication date: 21 June 2012

Abstract: Under a magnetic field along its axis, domain wall motion in a uniaxial nanowire is much slower than in the fully anisotropic case, typically by several orders of magnitude (the square of the dimensionless Gilbert damping parameter). However, with the addition of a magnetic field transverse to the wire, this behaviour is dramatically reversed; up to a critical field strength, analogous to the Walker breakdown field, domain walls in a uniaxial wire propagate faster than in a fully anisotropic wire (without transverse field). Beyond this critical field strength, precessional motion sets in, and the mean velocity decreases. Our results are based on leading-order analytic calculations of the velocity and critical field as well as numerical solutions of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation.

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