Intrinsic Oscillation of Coupled Domain Walls in a Perpendicularly Magnetized Nanowire System

The dynamics of two domain walls (DWs) in a system of two nanowires with perpendicular magnetocrystalline anisotropy (PMA) was investigated by micromagnetic simulation. It was found that without applied current, the motion mode of DWs is translational motion plus oscillation. Different from its in-plane counterpart, in a two-PMA-nanowire system, the oscillation of DWs before encountering is quite intrinsic—the frequency and the amplitude only depend on the separation between nanowires and the material of the nanowires, and have no relationship with applied current and the distance between two DWs. When applying proper currents, the coupled DWs will only oscillate without performing translational motion. The oscillation frequency can reach several GHz. Besides being tuned in a large range by varying the nanowire separation, the oscillation frequency can also be slightly modified by adjusting the magnetic anisotropy (K) or magnetization (Ms) of the nanowire. This finding may be of great importance for the design of microwave oscillator with stable and accurate frequency.