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Title: Generation and gyroscopic quasi-relativistic dynamics of antiferromagnetic vortices in domain walls of yttrium orthoferrite

Journal Article · · Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics

An unusual nonlinear relation between the velocity of an antiferromagnetic (AFM) vortex along a domain wall (DW) on the DW velocity is detected. This relation has a maximum whose position depends on the topological charge of the vortex. As the DW velocity increases from the value corresponding to the maximum to its limiting value, the AFM-vortex velocity decreases and tends to zero. The total AFM-vortex velocity increases nonlinearly with the DW velocity and levels off at 20 km/s, which is equal to the velocity of spin waves in the linear section of their dispersion law. The experimental data are approximated satisfactorily. The dynamics of AFM vortices in DWs of yttrium orthoferrite, just as the dynamics of the DWs, is quasi-relativistic and gyroscopic.

OSTI ID:
21067664
Journal Information:
Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics, Vol. 103, Issue 1; Other Information: DOI: 10.1134/S106377610607017X; Copyright (c) 2006 Nauka/Interperiodica; Article Copyright (c) 2006 Pleiades Publishing, Inc; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1063-7761
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English