TY - JOUR
AU - Seemann, K.M.
AU - Garcia-Sanchez, F.
AU - Kronast, F.
AU - Miguel, J.
AU - Kakay, A.
AU - Schneider, C. M.
AU - Hertel, R.
AU - Freimuth, F.
AU - Mokrousov, Y.
AU - Blügel, S.
TI - Disentangling the Physical Contributions to the Electrical Resistance in Magnetic Domain Walls: A Multiscale Study
JO - Physical review letters
VL - 108
SN - 0031-9007
CY - College Park, Md.
PB - APS
M1 - PreJuSER-22141
SP - 077201
PY - 2012
N1 - K. M. S. thanks W. Kuch, C. H. Marrows, B. J. Hickey, A. Aziz, and M. G. Blamire and for fruitful discussions. F. G. thanks the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion and the Fundacion Espanola para la Ciencia y la Tecnologia of Spain for financial support. We gratefully acknowledge S. Borm and E. Westphal for discussions and assistance. F. F. and Y. M. thank the HGF-YIG program VH-NG-513 and the Julich Supercomputing Centre for computational time.
AB - We analyze the origin of the electrical resistance arising in domain walls of perpendicularly magnetized materials by considering a superposition of anisotropic magnetoresistance and the resistance implied by the magnetization chirality. The domain wall profiles of L1(0)-FePd and L1(0)-FePt are determined by micromagnetic simulations based on which we perform first-principles calculations to quantify electron transport through the core and closure region of the walls. The wall resistance, being twice as high in L1(0)-FePd than in L1(0)-FePt, is found to be clearly dominated in both cases by a high gradient of magnetization rotation, which agrees well with experimental observations.
KW - J (WoSType)
LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000300246000022
DO - DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.077201
UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/22141
ER -