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American Institute of Physics, Journal of Applied Physics, 13(113), p. 133901

DOI: 10.1063/1.4798943

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Coupling and induced depinning of magnetic domain walls in adjacent spin valve nanotracks

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Abstract

The magnetostatic interaction between magnetic domain walls (DWs) in adjacent nanotracks has been shown to produce strong inter-DW coupling and mutual pinning. In this paper, we have used electrical measurements of adjacent spin-valve nanotracks to follow the positions of interacting DWs. We show that the magnetostatic interaction between DWs causes not only mutual pinning, as observed till now, but that a travelling DW can also induce the depinning of DWs in near-by tracks. These effects may have great implications for some proposed high density magnetic devices (e.g., racetrack memory, DW-based magnetic random access memory (MRAM), or DW logic circuits.) (C) 2013 American Institute of Physics. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4798943]