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Published March 1, 2016 | Version v1
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Very large domain wall velocities in Pt/Co/GdOx and Pt/Co/Gd trilayers with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction

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We carried out measurements of domain wall (DW) velocities driven by magnetic-field pulses in symmetric Pt/Co/Pt and asymmetric Pt/Co/AlOx, Pt/Co/GdOx and Pt/Co/Gd trilayers with ultrathin Co layers and perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. The maximum observed velocity is much larger in the asymmetric samples, where the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) stabilises chiral Néel walls. In quantitative agreement with analytical models, in all samples the maximum observed DW speed scales as D/Ms , where D is the strength of the DMI and Ms the spontaneous magnetisation. In Pt/Co/Gd, where the anti-parallel coupling between the magnetic moments of Gd and Co leads to a decrease of the total magnetisation, very large DW speeds (up to 700 m/s) are obtained.

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