Driving large-velocity propagation of ferromagnetic pi/2 domain walls in nanostripes of cubic-anisotropy materials

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates that pi/2 domain walls in cubic-anisotropy nanostripes can be driven at velocities exceeding 700 m/s using electric currents, magnetic fields, or stress, enabling high-density magnetic data processing.

Contribution

It introduces a new class of fast-moving pi/2 domain walls in cubic-anisotropy nanostripes and provides analytical and simulation evidence for their high-velocity propagation using various stimuli.

Findings

Domain walls can reach velocities over 1000 m/s with electric current.

Magnetic field can drive domain walls above 700 m/s.

Stress-driven propagation is also feasible in these nanostripes.

Abstract

We study the externally-driven motion of the domain walls (DWs)of the pi/2 type in (in-the-plane ordered) nanostripes of the crystalline cubic anisotropy. Such DWs are much narrower than the transverse and vortex pi DWs of the soft-magnetic nanostripes while propagating much faster, thus, enabling dense packing of magnetization domains and high speed processing of the many domain states. The viscous current-driven motion of the DW with the velocity above 1000m/s under the electric current of the density 10^12A/m2 is predicted to take place in the nanostripes of the magnetite. Also, the viscous motion with the velocity above 700m/s can be driven by the magnetic field according to our solution to a 1D analytical model and the micromagnetc simulations. Such huge velocities are achievable in the nanostripes of very small cross-sections (only 100nm width and 10nm thickness). The fully stress driven propagation of the DW in the nanostripes of cubic magnetostrictive materials is predicted as well. The strength of the DW pinning to the stripe notches and the thermal stability of the magnetization during the current flow are addressed.