Spin-Orbit-Coupling-Induced Domain-Wall Resistance in Diffusive Ferromagnets
Spin-Orbit-Coupling-Induced Domain-Wall Resistance in Diffusive Ferromagnets
We investigate diffusive transport through a number of domain wall (DW) profiles of the important magnetic alloy Permalloy taking into account simultaneously noncollinearity, alloy disorder, and spin-orbit-coupling fully quantum mechanically, from first principles. In addition to observing the known effects of magnetization mistracking and anisotropic magnetoresistance, we discover a not-previously …