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Annihilation of topological solitons in magnetism with spin wave burst finale: The role of nonequilibrium electrons causing nonlocal damping and spin pumping over ultrabroadband frequency range

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Pith's one-line read Magnetic domain-wall annihilation pumps spin currents with a 27 THz spectrum.

desk verdict A self-consistent TDNEGF+LLG simulation predicts ultrabroadband spin pumping and nonlocal damping during domain-wall annihilation, but the headline 1 T THz bandwidth rests on a single 100 T run with no field-convergence check. read the letter →

arxiv 1908.03194 v5 pith:OZGSZQKN submitted 2019-08-08 cond-mat.mes-hall nlin.PSquant-ph

Marko D. Petrovic , Utkarsh Bajpai , Petr Plechac , Branislav K. Nikolic This is my paper · ORCID
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keywords domainwallannihilationspinpumpingnonlocaldampingterahertzradiationnonequilibriumGreenfunctionsLandau-Lifshitz-Gilbertspin-transfertorquetopologicalsolitons
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The reading

This paper predicts that when two magnetic domain walls in a ferromagnetic nanowire are driven together by a magnetic field, their annihilation pumps a burst of electronic spin current whose spectrum spans an ultrabroadband range, up to about 27 THz. In the absence of any bias voltage, the time-varying magnetic texture acts on conduction electrons through the s-d exchange coupling, pushing them out of equilibrium. The resulting spin currents can be converted into charge currents via the inverse spin Hall effect, making the device a candidate source of terahertz radiation whose lowest frequency is set by the applied field. The paper also argues that the backaction of the pumped electrons acts as a nonlocal damping that is roughly 2.4 times larger than the conventional local Gilbert damping, modifying the emitted spin-wave spectrum.

What carries the argument

The calculation couples two levels of description self-consistently: classical Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equations for the localized magnetic moments, and time-dependent nonequilibrium Green functions for the conduction electrons in a tight-binding chain attached to normal-metal leads. The backaction is captured by the spin-transfer torque $\mathbf{T}_i[\mathbf{M}_i(t)] = J_{sd}(\langle \hat{\mathbf{s}}_i\rangle^{\rm neq}(t) - \langle \hat{\mathbf{s}}_i\rangle^{\rm eq}_t)\times \mathbf{M}_i(t)$, whose damping-like component is compared with the local Gilbert damping $\lambda \mathbf{M}_i\times\partial_t\mathbf{M}_i$. The model reproduces the experimentally observed spin-wave burst at annihilation, and the FFT of the pumped spin current gives the ultrabroadband spectrum.

What would settle it

A time-resolved measurement of the THz emission from field-driven domain-wall annihilation in a metallic nanowire: an ultrabroadband burst up to ~27 THz (for ~1 T, extending from ~0.03 THz) would confirm; a single narrow emission line near the precession frequency would falsify the central prediction.

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Core claim

The central claim is that annihilation of a domain-wall pair—two topological solitons with opposite winding numbers—is not a purely classical magnetic event. The collapsing texture sources time-dependent fields in the quantum Hamiltonian of conduction electrons, and the self-consistent electron dynamics produces spin currents with a power spectrum that is essentially white up to ~27 THz before annihilation completes. This is qualitatively different from ordinary spin pumping from a precessing magnetization, which produces a single spectral line. The same nonequilibrium electrons exert a damping-like spin-transfer torque on the local moments that is spatially and temporally nonuniform and about 2.4 times larger than the local Gilbert damping used in the model, signaling that micromagnetic simulations without conduction electrons omit an important channel.

Load-bearing premise

The entire prediction rests on assuming that the collision dynamics computed at an artificial 100 T field on a 45-atom chain represent what happens at the experimental ~1 T field, with only the lowest frequency scale changed.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • A field-driven DW-collision device could act as a source of THz radiation with bandwidth set by electronic energy scales, and a tunable low-frequency cutoff set by the applied magnetic field.
  • Micromagnetic simulations that omit conduction electrons understate damping during annihilation; adding the nonlocal damping term changes the predicted spin-wave spectrum.
  • Phenomenological spin-motive-force formulas miss the ultrabroadband pumping and underestimate the nonlocal damping, so quantitative predictions for DW dynamics need the microscopic treatment.
  • The same mechanism could operate in other topological soliton collisions, generating spin currents even without bias voltage.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the 100 T simulated dynamics carries over to the 1 T regime, the predicted THz bandwidth suggests DW annihilation is a compact on-chip THz source; experimentally, the emitted spectrum should be measured to test the extrapolation.
  • The paper's ratio of nonlocal to local damping (~2.4) matches a measured value in permalloy (~2.3), hinting that this backaction may explain the enhanced damping seen in field-driven DW experiments.
  • A direct experimental test could time-resolve the spin current or THz emission during annihilation; observing a broadband burst rather than a narrow line would confirm the mechanism.
  • The adiabatic approximation fails for the parameters used, implying that theories relying on it should be reexamined for narrow DWs and fast dynamics.
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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript presents a fully microscopic, self-consistent TDNEGF+LLG simulation of magnetic-field-driven annihilation of two domain walls in a 1D ferromagnetic nanowire attached to normal-metal leads. It reports (i) reproduction of the spin-wave burst observed experimentally by Woo et al.; (ii) a prediction that the annihilation pumps electronic spin currents with an ultrabroadband power spectrum before the annihilation instant, convertible via the inverse spin Hall effect into THz radiation with bandwidth ~27 THz; and (iii) a backaction of nonequilibrium electrons on the magnetic texture that acts as nonlocal damping roughly 2.4 times larger than the local Gilbert damping. The paper also contrasts these results with spin-motive-force phenomenological formulas, which it argues miss the ultrabroadband pumping and underestimate the nonlocal damping.

Significance. If the central claims hold, the paper would establish a new mechanism for ultrabroadband THz emission from soliton annihilation and demonstrate that conduction-electron backaction can materially modify domain-wall collision dynamics, beyond what classical micromagnetics captures. Its strengths are explicit: the framework is fully microscopic and self-consistent, the method is published in prior work by the same group, the comparison to SMF theory is concrete, and the predicted ~27 THz bandwidth is a falsifiable quantitative statement. The main weakness is that the quantitative predictions currently rest on a single simulation at B_ext = 100 T on a 45-site chain with λ = 0.01, and the extrapolation to the experimental field regime (~1 T) is not demonstrated by any convergence check or scaling argument.

major comments (3)
  1. [Models and methods; Conclusions and outlook] The headline prediction of 0.03–27 THz radiation for |B_ext| ~ 1 T is an extrapolation from the FFT power spectrum in Fig. 3(d), which is computed at |B_ext| = 100 T because the simulation is said to be too costly at lower fields. The manuscript provides no intermediate-field run (e.g., 10–50 T) and no analytical scaling argument showing that the high-frequency edge (~27 THz) and the spectral weight are independent of the applied field. At 100 T the Zeeman energy is comparable to the exchange and anisotropy energies, while at 1 T it is two orders of magnitude smaller, so the violence of the annihilation and the resulting spectral content may change substantially. This is a load-bearing issue for the central claim, and I ask the authors to either supply field-convergence data or restrict the claim to the simulated field regime.
  2. [Results, Fig. 2(f) and Eq. (2)] The statement that nonlocal damping is ~2.4 times larger than conventional local Gilbert damping is computed for a single value of λ = 0.01 and at B_ext = 100 T. Because λ appears in the denominator of the ratio plotted in Fig. 2(f), the reported factor is sensitive to the assumed λ, and because the nonlocal torque may scale differently with field, the ratio is not established as a robust quantitative result. A short sensitivity scan over λ (e.g., 0.005–0.02) and a check of the ratio at a lower field would be needed to support the general claim.
  3. [Models and methods, Eq. (4)] The numerical results are obtained for a 45-site chain with open leads, and the paper does not report finite-size convergence tests or sensitivity to model parameters such as J_sd and γ. Since the spin-pump spectrum and the damping ratio are central outputs, the absence of any system-size or parameter robustness check makes it difficult to assess whether the predicted ultrabroadband spectrum is generic or an artifact of the particular short chain. I request at least one finite-size comparison (e.g., 60 or 90 sites) and a statement on parameter sensitivity.
minor comments (4)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract contains a stray closing brace in 'highly unusual}' that should be removed.
  2. [Eq. (2)] The symbol T_i[I_Sα_ext] is used before it is defined; while the text later states that the external current is absent, the notation should be introduced or removed for clarity.
  3. [Results, Fig. 3] The vertical axis labels and units of the FFT power spectra in Fig. 3(d) and (h) are not specified; stating the normalization and units (e.g., arbitrary units or physical current spectral density) would aid quantitative interpretation.
  4. [Discussion] The comparison to SMF theory would benefit from a brief statement of the conductivity parameter G0 used in Fig. 4(a) and (b), since the magnitude of the SMF result depends on this input.

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No circularity: forward simulation from a fixed Hamiltonian; the pumped-current spectrum and nonlocal damping ratio are computed outputs, not fitted inputs.

full rationale

The paper's derivation chain is a forward many-body simulation. The classical LMM Hamiltonian, Eq. (1), and the electronic tight-binding Hamiltonian, Eq. (4), are specified with fixed microscopic parameters (J = 0.1 eV, K = 0.05 eV, D = 0.007 eV, J_sd = 0.1 eV, lambda = 0.01, gamma = 1 eV, E_F = 0 eV). The LLG equation, Eq. (2), with the electronic backaction torque, Eq. (3), is then integrated self-consistently with the TDNEGF computation of the nonequilibrium spin density. The pumped spin current in Figs. 3(a)-(c) is a transport output of this Hamiltonian, and its FFT in Fig. 3(d) is a numerical transform of that output; nothing in the paper defines the ultrabroadband spectrum as an input or fits a parameter to produce the 27 THz bandwidth. Likewise, the nonlocal damping ratio in Fig. 2(f) is the ratio of the computed DL torque T_i[M_i(t)] to the conventional lambda M_i x dM_i/dt term in the same simulation; neither quantity is tuned to make the ratio 2.4. The comparison of TDNEGF+LLG results to SMF theory (Fig. 4) is against an external phenomenological benchmark, and the reproduction of the annihilation-induced SW burst is a qualitative comparison to the Woo et al. experiment, not an inversion of experimental data into model parameters. The authors do cite their own method papers (Refs. 27, 46-48, 55) for the TDNEGF+LLG machinery, but the machinery is independently published, peer reviewed, and its essential equations are restated in this paper, so this is ordinary method self-citation rather than load-bearing circularity. The explicit sentence 'Due to the computational complexity of TDNEGF calculations, we use magnetic field |B_ext| = 100 T to complete DW annihilation on ~ ps time scale' flags an extrapolation to |B_ext| ~ 1 T in the Conclusions; that is an untested scaling assumption and a correctness/robustness risk, but it is not circular because the 27 THz bandwidth and the 2.4x damping ratio are outputs of a fixed-parameter simulation, not assumptions feeding the calculation. Overall, the central claims are self-contained numerical predictions from stated Hamiltonians and do not reduce by construction to their inputs.

Assumptions & free parameters 3 free parameters · 4 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central claim depends on the semiclassical s-d exchange model, the fixed length classical spin assumption, the TDNEGF plus LLG numerical machinery from prior work, and the untested 100 T to 1 T extrapolation. The listed free parameters directly control the headline numbers: lambda defines the local damping baseline, B_ext is the artificial field, and the system size sets the mode spectrum. No new entities are invented.

free parameters (3)
  • lambda (local Gilbert damping) = 0.01
    The headline ratio 'nonlocal damping is 2.4 times local Gilbert damping' is computed by dividing the spin torque by lambda times M cross dM/dt. Choosing a different lambda, which is not measured in this setup, would change the ratio. The paper sets lambda = 0.01 as typical for metallic ferromagnets.
  • B_ext (applied field) = 100 T
    Used to compress annihilation to the ps timescale. The claimed 0.03 to 27 THz range for |B_ext| around 1 T is an extrapolation from this value, not a direct simulation.
  • System size (nanowire length) = 45 sites
    Finite size effects on the ultrabroadband spectrum are not checked. A 45 site chain has a discrete mode spectrum that may affect the FFT content and the emitted spin current.
assumptions (4)
  • domain assumption Classical fixed length localized magnetic moments described by LLG equations
    The magnetization is treated as a set of classical unit vectors of fixed length; longitudinal and quantum spin fluctuations are neglected. This is standard in atomistic spin dynamics but is an assumption.
  • domain assumption Electrons described by a single particle tight binding s-d exchange Hamiltonian without electron electron interactions, spin orbit coupling, or disorder
    All transport and backaction effects are computed in this mean field single particle picture. The neglect of spin orbit coupling and disorder could affect the magnitude of nonlocal damping.
  • domain assumption The self consistent TDNEGF plus LLG algorithm with time step 0.1 fs is numerically exact
    The paper states the formalism is numerically exact, but no convergence or error analysis is shown. The results depend on the correctness of the implementation from prior work.
  • ad hoc to paper Dynamics at B_ext = 100 T is representative of dynamics at about 1 T for the purpose of the frequency range claim
    The THz prediction at low field rests on this extrapolation. The paper only simulates at 100 T and asserts the lowest frequency scales with B_ext.

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abstract

We not only reproduce burst of short-wavelength spin waves (SWs) observed in recent experiment [S. Woo et al., Nat. Phys. 13, 448 (2017)] on magnetic-field-driven annihilation of two magnetic domain walls (DWs) but, furthermore, we predict that this setup additionally generates highly unusual} pumping of electronic spin currents in the absence of any bias voltage. Prior to the instant of annihilation, their power spectrum is ultrabroadband, so they can be converted into rapidly changing in time charge currents, via the inverse spin Hall effect, as a source of THz radiation of bandwidth $\simeq 27$ THz where the lowest frequency is controlled by the applied magnetic field. The spin pumping stems from time-dependent fields introduced into the quantum Hamiltonian of electrons by the classical dynamics of localized magnetic moments (LMMs) comprising the domains. The pumped currents carry spin-polarized electrons which, in turn, exert backaction on LMMs in the form of nonlocal damping which is more than twice as large as conventional local Gilbert damping. The nonlocal damping can substantially modify the spectrum of emitted SWs when compared to widely-used micromagnetic simulations where conduction electrons are completely absent. Since we use fully microscopic (i.e., Hamiltonian-based) framework, self-consistently combining time-dependent electronic nonequilibrium Green functions with the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation, we also demonstrate that previously derived phenomenological formulas miss ultrabroadband spin pumping while underestimating the magnitude of nonlocal damping due to nonequilibrium electrons.

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Figure 1. FIG. 1. Schematic view of a ferromagnetic nanowire modeled [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. FIG. 2. (a) Sequence of snapshots of two DWs, in the course [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. FIG. 3. Time dependence of: (a)–(c) electronic spin currents pumped into the right NM lead during DW collision and annihila [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: FIG. 4. Spatial profile at [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_4.png]

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