Nature Communications (Mar 2022)

Ultrafast time-evolution of chiral Néel magnetic domain walls probed by circular dichroism in x-ray resonant magnetic scattering

  • Cyril Léveillé,
  • Erick Burgos-Parra,
  • Yanis Sassi,
  • Fernando Ajejas,
  • Valentin Chardonnet,
  • Emanuele Pedersoli,
  • Flavio Capotondi,
  • Giovanni De Ninno,
  • Francesco Maccherozzi,
  • Sarnjeet Dhesi,
  • David M. Burn,
  • Gerrit van der Laan,
  • Oliver S. Latcham,
  • Andrey V. Shytov,
  • Volodymyr V. Kruglyak,
  • Emmanuelle Jal,
  • Vincent Cros,
  • Jean-Yves Chauleau,
  • Nicolas Reyren,
  • Michel Viret,
  • Nicolas Jaouen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28899-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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There is interest in encoding of information in complex spin structures present in magnetic systems, such as domain walls. Here, Léveillé et al study the ultrafast dynamics of chiral domain walls, and show the emergence of a transient spin chiral texture at the domain wall.