title: Dependence of domain-wall depinning threshold current on pinning profile.
abstract: We have investigated the threshold current density required for depinning a domain wall from constrictions in NiFe nanowires, which give rise to pinning potentials of fixed amplitude but variable profile. We observed it to vary linearly with the angle of the triangular constriction. These results are reproduced using micromagnetic simulations including the adiabatic and nonadiabatic spin-torque terms. By curve-fitting the calculated variations to the experimental results, we obtain the nonadiabaticity parameter beta=0.04(+/-0.005) and current spin polarization P=0.51(+/-0.02).
authors.affiliation: E. C. Stoner Laboratory, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK. s.lepadatu@leeds.ac.uk
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lepadatu
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vanhaverbeke
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Atkinson
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Allenspach
authors.forename: C H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Marrows