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Chiral damping

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Analysis of the magnetic domain-wall motion in a nanostructured magnetic system with strong spin–orbit coupling shows that the energy dissipation can be chiral when the inversion symmetry is broken.

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Figure 1: Handedness and domain-wall formation.
Figure 2: Domain wall speed v for the two domain walls with opposite handedness.

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  1. Kyoung-Whan Kim is at the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899-6202, USA and also at the Maryland NanoCenter, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA,

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  2. Hyun-Woo Lee is in the Department of Physics, Korea and also in the Department of Physics, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang 37673, University of Toronto, Toronto M5S 1A7, Canada,

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Kim, KW., Lee, HW. Chiral damping. Nature Mater 15, 253–254 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4565

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