Microwave fields driven domain wall motions in antiferromagnetic nanowires

• Published in: New Journal of Physics
• Main Authors: Z Y Chen, Z R Yan, Y L Zhang, M H Qin, Z Fan, X B Lu, X S Gao, J-M Liu
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: IOP Publishing 2018-01-01
• Subjects: antiferromagnetic domain wall; dynamics; microwave field
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/aac68e

In this work, we study the microwave field driven domain wall (DW) motion in an antiferromagnetic nanowire, using the numerical calculations based on a classical Heisenberg spin model with the biaxial magnetic anisotropy. We show that a proper combination of a static magnetic field plus an oscillating field perpendicular to the nanowire axis is sufficient to drive the DW propagation along the nanowire. More importantly, the drift velocity at the resonance frequency is comparable to that induced by temperature gradients, suggesting that microwave field can be a very promising tool to control DW motions in antiferromagnetic nanostructures. The dependences of resonance frequency and drift velocity on the static and oscillating fields, the axial anisotropy, and the damping constant are discussed in details. Furthermore, the optimal orientations of the field are also numerically determined and explained. This work provides useful information for the spin dynamics in antiferromagnetic nanostructures for spintronics applications.