Creep turns linear in narrow ferromagnetic nanostrips

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2016-02-04
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en
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9
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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, Volume 6
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The motion of domain walls in magnetic materials is a typical example of a creep process, usually characterised by a stretched exponential velocity-force relation. By performing large-scale micromagnetic simulations, and analyzing an extended 1D model which takes the effects of finite temperatures and material defects into account, we show that this creep scaling law breaks down in sufficiently narrow ferromagnetic strips. Our analysis of current-driven transverse domain wall motion in disordered Permalloy nanostrips reveals instead a creep regime with a linear dependence of the domain wall velocity on the applied field or current density. This originates from the essentially point-like nature of domain walls moving in narrow, line-like disordered nanostrips. An analogous linear relation is found also by analyzing existing experimental data on field-driven domain wall motion in perpendicularly magnetised media.
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DOMAIN-WALL DYNAMICS, PERPENDICULAR ANISOTROPY, MOTION, MEMORY, UNIVERSALITY, FLUCTUATIONS, TEMPERATURE, RACETRACK, NANOWIRES, STRIPS
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Leliaert , J , Van de Wiele , B , Vansteenkiste , A , Laurson , L , Durin , G , Dupre , L & Van Waeyenberge , B 2016 , ' Creep turns linear in narrow ferromagnetic nanostrips ' , Scientific Reports , vol. 6 , 20472 . https://doi.org/10.1038/srep20472