Nature Communications (Nov 2016)

Tunable inertia of chiral magnetic domain walls

  • Jacob Torrejon,
  • Eduardo Martinez,
  • Masamitsu Hayashi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13533
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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The controlled motion of magnetic domain walls in nanowire conduits forms the basis of emerging memory and information processing devices. Here, the authors report a pulse-length dependent quasi-static velocity of current-driven chiral domain walls, showing that their inertia is tunable.