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Mechanically driven domain wall movement in magnetoelastic nanomagnets

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Magnetic domain walls are fundamental objects arising in ferromagnetic materials, largely investigated both through micromagnetic simulations and experiments. While current- and field-based techniques for inducing domain wall propagation have been widely studied for fundamental understanding and application-oriented purposes, the possibility to manipulate domain walls using mechanical stress in magnetoelastic materials has only recently drawn interest. Here, a complete analytical model describing stress-induced transverse domain wall movement in ferromagnetic nanostripe with variable cross-section is presented. This approach yields a nonlinear integro-differential equation describing the magnetization field. Its numerical implementation, based on the nonlinear relaxation method, demonstrates the possibility to precisely control the position of a domain wall through mechanical action.

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    Théo Mathurin, Stefano Giordano, Yannick Dusch, Nicolas Tiercelin, Philippe Pernod & Vladimir Preobrazhensky

  2. Wave Research Center, Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Science, 38 Vavilov str., 119991, Moscow, Russia

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Mathurin, T., Giordano, S., Dusch, Y. et al. Mechanically driven domain wall movement in magnetoelastic nanomagnets. Eur. Phys. J. B 89, 169 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2016-70226-0

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