Fast current-induced motion of a transverse domain wall induced by interfacial Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction

• Theoretical study on the effect of the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction on transverse domain wall motion.
• Domain wall distortion induced by the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction and the damping-like spin–orbit torque.
• This allows a few hundreds m/s of domain wall velocity at the current density of 107 A/cm2.

Based on a theoretical study, we show that the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction results in very efficient current-induced manipulation of a transverse domain wall in magnetic nanowires. The efficient domain wall motion is caused by combined effects of the domain wall distortion induced by the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction and the damping-like spin–orbit spin transfer torque. We find that with reasonable parameters, the domain wall velocity reaches a few hundreds m/s at the current density of 107 A/cm2, which has never been achieved before. Our result will be beneficial for low-power operation of domain wall devices.