Affiliation:
1. Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences
2. National Research University “Higher School of Economics”
Abstract
The dynamics of domain walls in ferrimagnets in which spatial dynamics invariance is violated because of the presence of the chiral Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction with energy linear in sublattice spin density gradients is investigated theoretically. Analysis is performed based on numerical integration of equations in the sigma model generalized to the case of a ferrimagnet near the sublattice spin compensation point. It is shown that in contrast to conventional or chiral ferromagnets, chiral ferrimagnets can exhibit effects of dynamic transformation of the domain wall structure with the formation of more complex walls with a nonmonotonic behavior of the spin density in a wall upon an increase in the wall velocity. These effects are possible in a quite narrow neighborhood of the compensation point, and the width of this region increases upon an increase in the Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction constant.
Publisher
The Russian Academy of Sciences
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