Domain wall propagation and pinning induced by current pulses in cylindrical modulated nanowires
Cristina Bran, Jose Ángel Fernández-Roldán, Julián A. Moreno, Arantxa Fraile Rodríguez, R. P. del Real, A. Asenjo, E. Saugar, Jorge Marqués-Marchán, Hanan Mohammed, M. Foerster, L. Aballe, Jürgen Kosel, M. Vázquez, O. Chubykalo‐Fesenko
Abstract
. Thermal modelling indicates that large current densities temporarily raise the temperature in the nanowire above the Curie temperature, leading to nucleation of domain walls during the system cooling. Micromagnetic modelling with a spin-torque effect shows that for intermediate current densities, Bloch point domain walls with chirality parallel to the Oersted field propagate antiparallel to the current direction. In other cases, domain walls can be bounced from the notches and/or get pinned outside their positions. We thus found that current is not only responsible for domain wall propagation, but also is a source of pinning due to the Oersted field action.