Effective description of domain wall strings

TL;DR

This paper develops an analytical theory for the dynamics and stability of extended, irregularly shaped magnetic domain walls and skyrmions, capturing their excitation modes and scaling behaviors.

Contribution

It introduces a soft mode-based analytical framework for two-dimensional domain wall physics, including irregular skyrmions, surpassing previous numerical approaches.

Findings

Analytical description of skyrmion excitation modes

Scaling laws for domain wall dynamics

Comparison of irregular and circular skyrmion behaviors

Abstract

The 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 to analytically study the physics of extended domain walls and their stability. By considering irregular 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 the excitation modes of magnetic skyrmions, previously only accessible by sophisticated micromagnetic numerical calculations and spectral analysis. These analytical expressions provide the scaling behaviour of the different physics on parameters that experiments can test.