Orbital angular momentum and current-induced motion of a topologically textured domain wall in a ferromagnetic nanotube

Current-induced domain wall motion in nanoscale ferromagnetic elements

We review the details of domain wall (DW) propagation due to spin-polarized currents that could potentially be used in magnetic data storage devices based on domains and DWs. We discuss briefly the basics of the underlying spin torque effect and show how the two torques arising from the interaction between the spin-polarized charge carriers and the magnetization lead to complex dynamics of a sp...

Current-Assisted Domain Wall Motion in Ferromagnetic Semiconductors

Currents induced by domain wall motion in thin ferromagnetic wires

Historically the role of eddy currents in the motion of Bloch walls has been extensively studied. In contrast the direct interaction of currents with such a moving wall has received very little attention. However recently it has been shown that a wall can be displaced by the effects of a current alone, a fact which is important to the development of spintronics. We report here that such a movin...

Optical orbital angular momentum.

We present a brief introduction to the orbital angular momentum of light, the subject of our theme issue and, in particular, to the developments in the 13 years following the founding paper by Allen et al. (Allen et al. 1992 Phys. Rev. A 45, 8185 (doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.45.8185)). The papers by our invited authors serve to bring the field up to date and suggest where developments may take us next...

Detecting Lateral Motion using Light’s Orbital Angular Momentum

Interrogating an object with a light beam and analyzing the scattered light can reveal kinematic information about the object, which is vital for applications ranging from autonomous vehicles to gesture recognition and virtual reality. We show that by analyzing the change in the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of a tilted light beam eclipsed by a moving object, lateral motion of the object can b...