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American Physical Society, Physical review B, 6(92), 2015

DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.92.060411

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Current Induced Fingering Instability in Magnetic Domain Walls

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Abstract

The shape instability of magnetic domain walls under current is investigated in a ferromagnetic (Ga,Mn)(As,P) film with perpendicular anisotropy. Domain wall motion is driven by the spin transfer torque mechanism. A current density gradient is found either to stabilize domains with walls perpendicular to current lines or to produce finger-like patterns, depending on the domain wall motion direction. The instability mechanism is shown to result from the non-adiabatic contribution of the spin transfer torque mechanism. ; Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures + supplementary materials