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Facilitating domain wall injection in magnetic nanowires by electrical means
Full text linkWe investigate how to facilitate the injection of domain walls in chiral ferromagnetic nanowires by electrical means. We calculate the critical current density above which domain walls are injected into the nanowire depending on the material parameters and the source of interaction including spin-transfer torques as well as spin-orbit torques. We demonstrate that the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction can significantly reduce the required critical current to inject the types of domain walls favored by the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. We find that in chiral magnets it is only possible to shed a single domain wall by means of spin-orbit torques, as they modify the ground state orientation of the system. In contrast, for spin-transfer torque-induced shedding of domain walls, we show that there exist two different critical current densities for the two different domain wall chiralities, respectively. Additionally, for the consecutive creation of domain walls by means of spin-transfer torques, we find that the interaction between the domain walls cannot be neglected and even may lead to the pairwise annihilation of consecutive domain walls with opposite chiralities
Nonzero Skyrmion Hall Effect in Topologically Trivial Structures
Full text linkIt is widely believed that the skyrmion Hall effect, often disruptive for
device applications, vanishes for overall topologically trivial structures such
as (synthetic) antiferromagnetic skyrmions and skyrmioniums due to a
compensation of Magnus forces. In this manuscript, however, we report that in
contrast to the case of spin-transfer torque driven skyrmion motion, this
notion is generally false for spin-orbit torque driven objects. We show that
the skyrmion Hall angle is directly related to their helicity and imposes an
unexpected roadblock for developing faster and lower input racetrack memories
based on spin-orbit torques
Effective description of domain wall strings
Full text linkThe analysis of domain wall dynamics is often simplified to one-dimensional physics. For domain walls in thin films, more realistic approaches require the description as two-dimensional objects. This includes the study of vortices and curvatures along the domain walls as well as the influence of boundary effects. Here we provide a theory in terms of soft modes that allows us to analytically study the physics of extended domain walls and their stability. By considering irregularly shaped skyrmions as closed domain walls, we analyze their plasticity and compare their dynamics with those of circular skyrmions. Our theory directly provides an analytical description of the excitation modes of magnetic skyrmions, previously accessible only through sophisticated micromagnetic numerical calculations and spectral analysis. These analytical expressions provide the scaling behavior of the different physics on parameters that experiments can test
Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Induced Spin-Transfer Torques in Kagome Antiferromagnets
Full text linkIn recent years antiferromagnets (AFMs) have become very promising for
nanoscale spintronic applications due to their unique properties such as THz
dynamics and absence of stray fields. Manipulating antiferromagnetic textures
is currently, however, limited to very few exceptional material symmetry
classes allowing for staggered torques on the magnetic sublattices. In this
work, we predict for kagome AFMs with broken mirror symmetry a new coupling
mechanism between antiferromagnetic domain walls (DWs) and spin currents,
produced by the relativistic Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). We
microscopically derive the DMI's free energy contribution for the kagome AFMs.
Unlike ferromagnets and collinear AFMs, the DMI does not lead to terms linear
in the spatial derivatives but instead renormalizes the spin-wave stiffness and
anisotropy energies. Importantly, we show that the DMI induces a highly
nontrivial twisted DW profile that is controllable via two linearly independent
components of the spin accumulation. This texture manipulation mechanism goes
beyond the concept of staggered torques and implies a higher degree of
tunability for the current-driven DW motion compared to conventional
ferromagnets and collinear AFMs
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Voltage-Controlled High-Bandwidth Terahertz Oscillators Based On Antiferromagnets
Full text linkProducing compact voltage-controlled frequency generators and sensors
operating in the terahertz (THz) regime represents a major technological
challenge. Here, we show that noncollinear antiferromagnets (NCAFM) with kagome
structure host gapless self-oscillations whose frequencies are tunable from 0
Hz to the THz regime via electrically induced spin-orbit torques (SOTs). The
auto-oscillations' initiation, bandwidth, and amplitude are investigated by
deriving an effective theory, which captures the reactive and dissipative SOTs.
We find that the dynamics strongly depends on the ground state's chirality,
with one chirality having gapped excitations, whereas the opposite chirality
provides gapless self-oscillations. Our results reveal that NCAFMs offer unique
THz functional components, which could play a significant role in filling the
THz technology gap.Comment: Finale version accepted by Physical Review Letter
Spin texture motion in antiferromagnetic and ferromagnetic nanowires
Full text linkWe propose a Hamiltonian dynamics formalism for the current and magnetic field driven dynamics of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic domain walls in one-dimensional systems. To demonstrate the power of this formalism, we derive Hamilton equations of motion via Poisson brackets based on the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert phenomenology, and add dissipative dynamics via the evolution of the energy. We use this approach to study current induced domain-wall motion and compute the drift velocity. For the antiferromagnetic case, we show that a nonzero magnetic moment is induced in the domain wall, which indicates that an additional application of a magnetic field would influence the antiferromagnetic domain-wall dynamics. We consider both cases of the magnetic field being parallel and transverse to the Néel field. Based on this formalism, we predict an orientation switch mechanism for antiferromagnetic domain walls which can be tested with the recently discovered Néel spin orbit torques
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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