Facilitating domain wall injection in magnetic nanowires by electrical means

Abstract: We investigate how to facilitate the injection of domain walls in chiral ferromagnetic nanowires by electrical means. We calculate the critical current density above which domain walls are injected into the nanowire depending on the material parameters and the source of interaction including spin-transfer torques as well as spin-orbit torques. We demonstrate that the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction can significantly reduce the required critical current to inject the types of domain walls favored by the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. We find that in chiral magnets it is only possible to shed a single domain wall by means of spin-orbit torques, as they modify the ground state orientation of the system. In contrast, for spin-transfer-torque induced shedding of domain walls, we show that there exist two different critical current densities for the two different domain wall chiralities, respectively. Additionally, for the consecutive creation of domain walls by means of spin-transfer torques, we find that the interaction between the domain walls cannot be neglected and even may lead to the pairwise annihilation of consecutive domain walls with opposite chiralities.