TY - JOUR
T1 - Unidirectional Magnon-Driven Domain Wall Motion Due to the Interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction
AU - Kim, Kyoung-Whan
AU - Lee, Seo-Won
AU - Moon, Jung-Hwan
AU - Go, Gyungchoon
AU - Manchon, Aurelien
AU - Lee, Hyun-Woo
AU - Everschor-Sitte, Karin
AU - Lee, Kyung-Jin
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledgements: We acknowledge A. Thiaville, P. Pirro, and S.-K. Kim for fruitful discussions. This work is supported by NRF (2015M3D1A1070465, 2017R1A2B2006119) and the KIST Institutional Program (No. 2V05750 and No. 2E29410). The work in Mainz was supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the ERC Synergy Grant SC2 (No. 610115), the Transregional Collaborative Research Center (SFB/TRR) 173, and the German Research Foundation (DFG) (No. EV 196/2-1 and No. SI 1720/2-1). K.W.K was also supported by the National Research Council of Science & Technology (NST) (Grant No. CAP-16-01-KIST). H.W.L. was supported by NRF (2018R1A5A6075964). A.M. acknowledges support from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).
PY - 2019/4/9
Y1 - 2019/4/9
N2 - We demonstrate a unidirectional motion of a quasiparticle without explicit symmetry breaking along the space-time coordinate of the particle motion. This counterintuitive behavior originates from a combined action of two intrinsic asymmetries in the other two directions. We realize this idea with the magnon-driven motion of a magnetic domain wall in thin films with interfacial asymmetry. Contrary to previous studies, the domain wall moves along the same direction regardless of the magnon-flow direction. Our general symmetry analysis and numerical simulation reveal that the odd order contributions from the interfacial asymmetry is unidirectional, which is dominant over bidirectional contributions in the realistic regime. We develop a simple analytic theory on the unidirectional motion, which provides an insightful description of this counterintuitive phenomenon.
AB - We demonstrate a unidirectional motion of a quasiparticle without explicit symmetry breaking along the space-time coordinate of the particle motion. This counterintuitive behavior originates from a combined action of two intrinsic asymmetries in the other two directions. We realize this idea with the magnon-driven motion of a magnetic domain wall in thin films with interfacial asymmetry. Contrary to previous studies, the domain wall moves along the same direction regardless of the magnon-flow direction. Our general symmetry analysis and numerical simulation reveal that the odd order contributions from the interfacial asymmetry is unidirectional, which is dominant over bidirectional contributions in the realistic regime. We develop a simple analytic theory on the unidirectional motion, which provides an insightful description of this counterintuitive phenomenon.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/652841
UR - https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.147202
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85064411476&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.147202
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.147202
M3 - Article
C2 - 31050478
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 122
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
IS - 14
ER -