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Soliton solution for the spin current in a ferromagnetic nanowire Zai-Dong Li 1 Qiu-Yan Li 1 Lu Li and W. M. Liu 3 1 Department of Applied Physics Hebei University of Technology Tianjin 300401 China College of Physics and Electronics Engineering Shanxi University Taiyuan 030006 China 3 Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics Institute of Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100080 China Received 3 February 007; published 1 August 007 We investigate the interaction of a periodic solution and a one-soliton solution for the spin-polarized current in a uniaxial ferromagnetic nanowire. The amplitude and wave number of the periodic solution for the spin current give different contributions to the width velocity and amplitude of the soliton. Moreover we found that the soliton can be trapped only in space with proper conditions. Finally we analyze the modulation instability and discuss dark solitary wave propagation for a spin current on the background of a periodic solution. In some special cases the solution can be expressed as the linear combination of the periodic and soliton solutions. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.76.06605 I. INTRODUCTION The study of magnetoelectronics has received considerable interest for its potential technological applications. Theoretical and experimental investigations mainly concentrated on giant magnetoresistance are of fundamental importance in the understanding of magnetism and may be applied in the fabrication of magnetic devices. In metallic ferromagnets the differences between the electronic bands and the scattering cross sections of impurities for majority and minority spins at the Fermi energy cause spin-dependent mobilities 1. The difference between spin-up and spindown electric currents is called the spin current. It is a tensor with a direction of flow and spin polarization parallel to the equilibrium magnetization vector M rt J = P B j e M rt 1 em s P is the spin polarization of the current B is the Bohr magneton and e is the magnitude of the electronic charge. The vector j e tracks the direction of the charge current M rt describes the direction of the spin polarization of the current and M s is the saturation magnetization. When the magnetization directions in the systems are not collinear the polarization directions of the nonequilibrium accumulations and currents are not parallel or antiparallel with the magnetizations. This gives rise to interesting physics like the spin-transfer effect in spin valves. The dynamics of the magnetization 3 is then governed by the parametric torques due to the spin-polarized current and magnetic field. This spin-transfer effect was theoretically proposed 45 and subsequently verified in experiment 6. Since this novel spin torque was proposed many interesting phenomena have been studied such as spin-wave excitation 78 magnetization switching and reversal 9 14 domain-wall dynamics 1516 and magnetic solitons 1718. In these studies the dynamics of the magnetization M rt is described by a modified Landau-Lifshitz equation including a term for the spin-transfer torque. In a typical ferromagnet the magnetization is rarely uniform i.e. the magnetization has spatial dependence and a new form of spin torque 715 was proposed in conducting ferromagnetic structures. With this spin PACS number s : 05.45.Yv 75.40.Gb torque nonlinear excitations on the background of the ground state are studied such as the unique features of Néelwall motion in a nanowire 15 the kink soliton solution and the domain-wall dynamics in a biaxial ferromagnet 16 bulk spin excitations 715 and magnetic soliton solutions for the isotropic 17 and uniaxial anisotropic cases 18. Nonlinear spin waves and magnetic solitons are always topics of research in confined ferromagnetic materials 19 due to the interaction between the spin-polarized current and local magnetization especially the generation and detection of magnon excitation 0 in a magnetic multilayer. From Eq. 1 one can obtain the solution for the spin current if the magnetization M rt is known. For simplicity we consider an infinitely long ferromagnetic nanowire the electronic current flows along the length of the wire defined as the x direction. The z axis is taken as the direction of the uniaxial anisotropy field and the external field. Assuming the magnetization is nonuniform only along the direction of the current the spin current in Eq. 1 can be written as j xt = b J M xt b J = Pj e B / em s. The spatial variation of the spin current produces a reaction torque on the magnetization given by b j/ x=b J M/ x which enters the modified Landau-Lifshitz equation as shown below. As reported in previous work both spin-wave and soliton solutions 71518 are possible for the magnetization M xt and the spin current j has a periodic or pulsed form respectively. In the present paper we will investigate the properties of the spin current j on the background of a periodic solution corresponding to the soliton solution for the magnetization on a nonlinear spin-wave background. The paper is organized as follows. In Sec. II we transform the Landau-Lifshitz equation into an equation of nonlinear Schrödinger type in the long-wavelength approximation. By means of the Darboux transformation the soliton solution for the spinpolarized current is constructed analytically in Sec. III. In Sec. IV we discuss the properties of the solution for the spin-polarized current in detail. Section V is our conclusion. 1539-3755/007/76 /06605 7 06605-1 007 The American Physical Society

LI et al. II. DYNAMICS OF MAGNETIZATION IN A FERROMAGNETIC NANOWIRE The dynamics of the localized magnetization is described by the modified Landau-Lifshitz equation 715 including a term for the spin-transfer torque M = M H eff + M M + b 3 M s the localized magnetization M M xt is the gyromagnetic ratio is the Gilbert damping parameter and H eff represents the effective magnetic field including the external field the anisotropy field the demagnetization field and the exchange field. This effective field can be written as H eff = A/M s M/ x + H K /M s 4 M z + e z A is the exchange constant H K is the anisotropy field is the applied external field and e z is the unit vector along the z direction. Introducing the normalized magnetization m =M/M s Eq. 3 can be simplified in the dimensionless form m = m m x + m m + b Jt 0 m l 0 x m z + e z 4 H K 4 M s m the time t and space coordinate x have been rescaled by the characteristic time t 0 =1/ H K 4 M s and length l 0 = A/ H K 4 M s M s respectively. It is obvious that m m x m y m z = 001 forms the ground state of the system and two types of nonlinear excited state i.e. the spin-wave solution and magnetic soliton are possible for Eq. 4. When the magnetic field is high enough the deviation of the magnetization from the ground state is small for the two types of excited state. In this case we can make a reasonable transformation = m x + im y m z =. 5 Substituting the above equations into Eq. 4 we obtain i = m z x m z x m z m z + i b Jt 0 l 0 x m z + 6 H K 4 M s. It is easy to get two solutions of Eq. 6 : one is =0 corresponding to the ground state m= 001 i.e. j = 00b J M s and the other is the bulk spin-wave excitation =A c e i k cx+ c t corresponding to the periodic spin current j x = b J M s A c cos k c x + c t j y = b J M s A c sin k c x + c t j z = b J M s 1 Ac 7 k c and c are the dimensionless wave number and frequency of the spin wave and the transverse amplitude A c 1. For an attractive interaction nonlinear spin waves in a ferromagnet with anisotropy lead to macroscopic phenomena i.e. the appearance of a spatially localized magnetic excited state magnetic soliton. In the present paper we want to obtain the soliton solution of the magnetization on a nonlinear spin-wave background in a uniaxial ferromagnetic nanowire with spin torque. However Eq. 6 is not integrable. For our purpose we consider the case without damping and the longwavelength approximation 3 the dimensionless wave number k c 1. Keeping only the nonlinear terms of the order of magnitude of Eq. 6 can be simplified as the integrable equation i = x + 1 1+ + i b Jt 0 H K 4 M s l 0 x 8 whose soliton solution on the background of the ground state =0 can be obtained by the Hirota method 184. In order to discuss the properties of the soliton solution on the spinwave background here we use a straightforward Darboux transformation 5 7 to construct the general expression for the soliton solution of Eq. 8 with which the soliton solution for the spin-polarized current is obtained from Eqs. and 5. For this reason we will consider mainly the solution of Eq. 8 in the following section. The main idea of the Darboux transformation is that it first transforms the nonlinear equation into the Lax representation and then by a series of transformations the soliton solution can be constructed algebraically with the obvious seed solution of the nonlinear equation. In terms of the Ablowitz-Kaup-Newell-Segur technique the Lax representation for Eq. 8 can be constructed as x = U = V 9 = T the superscript T denotes the matrix transpose and the Lax pairs U and V are defined by U = 3 + q V = i + + 3 + i q + i q x + q 3 = b Jt 0 l 0 = i 1 1+ H K 4 M s 3 = 0 q = 0 1 0 0. 10 Here is the complex spectral parameter and the overbar denotes the complex conjugate. With the natural condition of Eq. 9 / x = / x i.e. U/ V/ x + UV =0 the integrable Eq. 8 can be recovered success- 06605-

SOLITON SOLUTION FOR THE SPIN CURRENT IN A fully. Now Eqs. 9 and 10 comprise the normal form of the developed Darboux transformation with which we can get the general N-soliton solution as shown in the next section. III. DARBOUX TRANSFORMATION In this section we briefly introduce the procedure for getting the soliton solution for the developed Darboux transformation. Consider the following transformation: 1 = I K 11 K=S S 1 =diag and S is a nonsingular matrix that satisfies x S = 3S + qs. We let 1 satisfy the Lax equation x 1 = U 1 1 U 1 = 3 + q 1 1 13 q 1 = 0. 0 1 With the help of Eqs. 10 1 we obtain the Darboux transformation from Eq. 13 in the form = +4K 1 14 which shows that a new solution of Eq. 8 with the seed solution can be obtained if K is known. It is easy to verify that if = T is an eigenfunction of Eq. 9 with eigenvalue = then 1 T is also an eigenfunction but with eigenvalue 1. Therefore S and can be taken in the form S = 1 = 0 0 1 15 which ensures that Eq. 1 holds. Then Eq. 14 becomes = +4 + 1 T 16 T = + = T. We wish to determine the eigenfunction of Eq. 9 corresponding to the eigenvalue for the solution of Eq. 8. Thus by solving Eq. 9 we can generate a new solution for j with the help of Eqs. 5 and 8 from an obvious seed solution of Eq. 8. To obtain the exact N-order solution we first rewrite the Darboux transformation in Eq. 16 as = +4 + 1 1 1 17 1 T 1 1 = 1 1 T denotes the eigenfunction of Eq. 9 corresponding to the eigenvalue. Then repeating the above procedure N times we can obtain the exact N-order solution N N = +4 n=1 n + n n n n n 18 n n T n n n = K n 1 K 1 1 K l1 l n = n + n l 1 n n l n n n n T n n n l 1 l. Here n is the eigenfunction corresponding to n for n 1 with 0 and l 1 l =1 n =1...n 1 n =3...N. Thus after choosing a seed as the basic initial solution by solving the linear characteristic equation system 9 one can construct a set of new solutions from Eq. 18. In the following we take the initial seed solution =A c e i k cx+ c t corresponding to a periodic solution 7 the dispersion relation c =k c k c b J t 0 /l 0 A c /+ 1 + / H K 4 M s is obtained from Eq. 8. After a tedious calculation for solving the linear equation system 9 we have the eigenfunction corresponding to the eigenvalue in the form = LC 1 e + 1 A cc e = 1 A cc 1 e + LC e 19 the parameters C 1 and C are arbitrary complex constants and the other parameters are defined by = 1 i k cx c t + D x + = 1 i k cx c t D x + L = 1 ik c D D = 1 ik c + A c = i k c + b Jt 0. 0 l 0 With the help of the formulas 5 18 and 19 we can obtain the desired soliton solution for the spin current. 06605-3

LI et al. IV. PROPERTIES OF THE SOLITON SOLUTION FOR THE SPIN-POLARIZED CURRENT Taking the spectral parameter = /+i / and are real numbers in Eq. 19 and substituting into Eqs. 17 and 5 we obtain the one-soliton solution for the spin-polarized current from Eq. as j x = b J M s A c cos + Q 1 cos Q sin j y = b J M s A c sin + Q 1 sin + Q cos j z = b J M s 1 A c + Q 1 Q =D 1R x + D 1 R t +x 0 =D 1I x + D 1 I t 0 = k c x + c t Q 1 = A c L 1R cosh + L 1 + 1 4 A c cos Q = A c L 1I sinh + L 1 1 4 A c sin = L 1 + 1 4 A c cosh + A c L 1R cos 1 the subscript R and I represent the real and imaginary parts respectively. The other parameters are D 1 = ik c /+ A c /4 L 1 = ik c / D 1 = i k c +b J t 0 /l 0 x 0 = ln C /C 1 / and 0 = arg C /C 1 / C 1 C are arbitrary complex constants. The solution 1 describes a one-soliton solution for the spin-polarized current in a ferromagnetic nanowire embedded in the periodic spin current background 7. a When =0 the solution 1 reduces to the periodic solution 7. b When the spin-wave amplitude vanishes namely A c =0 the solution 1 reduces to a solution in the form j x = b J M s cosh cos + j y = b J M s cosh sin + j z = b J M s 1 4 cosh = x + + b Jt 0 + x 0 l 0 3 = x 1 b Jt 0 0 1 l 0 = 1+ 4 H K 4 M s. The solution 3 is in fact the same as the solution 8 in Ref. 18. One should notice that the transformation 5 is different from that in Ref. 18. The solution 3 indicates a spatially localized excitation 8 which is denoted by the transverse amplitude of the deviation from the ground state j= 00b J M s. The components j x and j y precess around the component j z with the frequency = 1 1 +b J t 0 /l 0 +1+ / H K 4 M s and the soliton solution is characterized by the width 1/ and the velocity of the soliton center v 1 = +b J t 0 /l 0. The wave number k s1 = and the frequency of the carrier wave are related by the dispersion law =k s1 k s1 b J t 0 /l 0 1 +1+ / H K 4 M s which shows that the magnetic field contributes to the precession frequency only. The magnetic soliton energy is seen to be E 1 = b J t 0 / l 0 1 +1+ / H K 4 M s + 1 m v 1 the dimensionless effective mass m of the soliton is 1/. From Eqs. 3 and 4 we also see that the term b J can change the velocity and the precessional frequency of the soliton on the background of the ground state j = 00b J M s. This case confirms the previous studies 1518. However on the background 7 unusual properties of Eq. 1 will be described below. The properties of the envelope soliton solution 1 are characterized by the width 1/ D 1R the wave number k s = D 1I the initial center position x 0 /D 1R and the envelope velocity v 1 = D 1 R /D 1R. The initial center position of the soliton is moved x 0 / 1/D 1R by the spin wave which shows a different way of controlling the soliton in space. With the expressions of D 1 and we find that the velocity and the width of the envelope soliton are modulated by the amplitude A c and wave number k c of the spin wave as shown in Fig. 1. From Figs. 1 a and 1 c we see that the absolute value of the velocity and the width of the envelope soliton become larger with increasing A c. Figure 1 b shows that the value of k c near has an obvious effect on the velocity of the soliton. When k c = the width of the soliton is maximal as shown in Fig. 1 d. From Eq. we can directly see that when D 1I I =R D 1R the parameter depends only on x which implies that the envelope velocity D 1 R /D 1R becomes zero i.e. the soliton is trapped in space by the nonlinear spin wave. It should be noted that this condition can be written as j e = em s l 0 D 1I + k c 5 P B t 0 D 1R which is determined by the characteristic velocity l 0 /t 0 the amplitude and the wave number of the soliton and the nonlinear spin wave and the parameter em s / P B. After a tedious calculation we found that when A c k c and the condition in Eq. 5 reduces to j e l 0 / t 0 em s / P B. When the amplitude of the spin wave van- 06605-4

SOLITON SOLUTION FOR THE SPIN CURRENT IN A Velocity of envelope soliton -0.44 (a) 0.4-0.46 0.40-0.48 0.38-0.50 0.36-0.5 0.34 0.00 0.01 0.0 0.03 0.04 0.05 Velocity of envelope soliton 0.3 0.31 0.30 0.9 0.8 (b) 0.7 0.00 0.05 0.10 0.15 0.0 0.5 0.30 Spin wave amplitude A c Spin wave number k c Width of envelope soliton 11.6 11.4 (c) 11. 11.0 10.8 10.6 10.4 10. 10.0 9.8 0.00 0.01 0.0 0.03 0.04 0.05 Spin wave amplitude A c Width of envelope soliton 1.75 1.50 (d) 1.5 1.00 11.75 11.50 11.5 11.00 10.75 10.50 0.00 0.05 0.10 0.15 0.0 0.5 0.30 Spin wave number k c FIG. 1. Color online Velocity and width of the soliton solution for spin-polarized current vs the amplitude A c and wave number k c of the spin wave. The parameters are =0.1 l 0 = 10 8 cm t 0 =5.739 10 1 s and b J =5 cm/s. a Velocity vs amplitude A c : k c =0.1 = 0.1 red solid line ; k c = 0.1 =0.1 blue dotted line. b Velocity vs spin-wave number k c ; A c =0.06 = 0.15. c Width vs amplitude A c ; k c = 0.1 =0.1. d Width vs spin-wave number k c ; A c =0.06 = 0.15. ishes namely A c =0 the trapping condition in Eq. 5 reduces to j e = l 0 /t 0 em s / P B which is determined by the characteristic velocity l 0 /t 0 the soliton wave number and the parameter em s / P B. These results show that the background has almost no effect on the trapping conditions in the special case A c k c and. For Co 3 Pt alloy films 1 which have high perpendicular anisotropy we chose H K =1 10 4 Oe A=1.0 10 6 erg/cm 4 M s =1 10 Oe =1.76 10 7 Oe 1 s 1 P=0.35 and the dimensionless parameters k c =0.05 A c =0.0 = 0.1 and =0.1. The critical electric current trapping the soliton is j e =1.867 10 4 A/cm. It is very important to point out that from Eqs. 1 and and the expression for the term b J changes not only the velocity but also the frequency affecting the soliton energy on the background 7. This property trapping the soliton in space by the nonlinear spin wave is characterized by spatial and temporal periods along the direction of soliton propagation x= D 1 R t/d 1R x 0 /D 1R given by D 1 R / I D 1R +D 1I and D 1R / I D 1R +D 1I respectively. In order to explain some interesting properties of the solution 1 we discuss the special case k c = and analyze two representative situations in detail. a The amplitude A c exceeds one-half of the transverse amplitude of the soliton. b The amplitude A c is less than one-half of the transverse amplitude of the soliton which implies A c 0. a In the case 1 A c the solution 1 reduces to j x = b J M s R 1 cos R sin j y = b J M s R 1 sin + R cos j z = b J M s 1 A c A c cosh cos A c cosh cos 6 is given in Eq. and the other parameters are determined by R 1 = A c + R = =4 = Ac cosh A c cosh cos sinh A c cosh cos = t +x 0 = x v 1 t 0 /. 7 A simple analysis of Eq. 7 reveals that the solution 6 is periodic in the space coordinate denoted by / and aperiodic in the temporal variable as shown in Fig.. From Fig. we can see that the background becomes unstable; therefore the solution 6 can be considered as describing the modulation instability process 9. Along the propagation direction of the soliton the expression for j z has a maximum j z =b J M s i.e. m z =1atcos = 1 A c / A c when 06605-5

LI et al. FIG.. Evolution of solution 6 with conditions k c = A c. Parameters are =0.1 = 0.1 A c =0.16 b J =34.8 cm/s l 0 = 10 10 m t 0 =5.739 10 1 s x 0 = 1.7 and 0 =0. The spin current j z is in units of b J M s here and in Figs. 3 and 4. A c /4 A c which shows that these points are not excited even on the spin-wave background and it has a minimum j z =b J M s 1 +A c / at sin =0. When A c /4 the expression for j z has a maximum j z =b J M s 1 A c / at =0 and a minimum j z =b J M s 1 +A c / at =. These results show that the linear combined transverse amplitude of the spin wave and magnetic soliton can be obtained in these special cases. b In the case A c the solution 1 reduces to j x = b J M s R 1 cos R sin j y = b J M s R 1 sin + R cos j z = b J M s 1 A c A c cosh cos cosh A c cos 8 =4 = 1 A c 9 j z Space x 1.01 1.00 0.99 0.98 0.97 0.96 0.95 0.94 0.93 0.9 0.91 10 90 60 30 0-30 -60-90 -10-150 (a) 0 00 400 600 800 (b) R 1 = A c + R = Time t 0 00 400 600 800 Time t FIG. 4. a Evolution of the minimum amplitude of j z in Eq. 31 dashed line the maximum amplitude of j z in Eq. 3 dotted line and the background amplitude of j z solid line in Eq. 7. b Location of the minimum amplitude solid line and the maximum amplitude dotted line in the time propagation-distance plane. The parameters are the same as in Fig. 3. cos cosh A c cos sin cosh A c cos = x v 1 t +x 0 / = t 0. 30 With the expressions 8 and 30 we can see the main characteristics of the soliton solution. 1 The soliton has the same envelope velocity v 1 = +b J t 0 /l 0 on both the background of the periodic spin current in Eq. 7 and the ground state background j= 00b J M s. The amplitude of j z in Eq. 8 has a temporal periodic oscillation as shown in Fig. 3. A detailed calculation shows that the amplitude of j z in Eq. 8 has a minimum at =0 which is given by j z = b J M s 1 A c 4 1 A c A c cos and has a maximum 31 FIG. 3. Evolution of solution 8 with the conditions k c = and A c. Parameters are =0.1 = 0.08 A c =0.06 b J =41.8 cm/s l 0 = 10 10 m t 0 =5.739 10 1 s x 0 =3 and 0 =0. j z = b J M A c sin s 1 1 A c cos 3 at cosh = / A c cos A c cos /. Figure 4 a 06605-6

SOLITON SOLUTION FOR THE SPIN CURRENT IN A presents the evolution along the propagation direction of the minimum and maximum intensities given by Eqs. 31 and 3 see respectively the dashed and dotted lines and the spin-wave intensity solid line. The location of the minimum and maximum amplitudes solid and dotted lines respectively in the time-space plane is shown in Fig. 4 b. From Fig. 4 it is seen that the narrower the soliton the sharper the peak and the deeper the two dips at the wings of the soliton. This feature illustrates the characteristic breather behavior of the soliton as it propagates on the background of a periodic solution for the spin current in a ferromagnetic nanowire. V. CONCLUSION In summary by transforming the modified Landau- Lifshitz equation into an equation of nonlinear Schrödinger type we study the interaction of a periodic and a one-soliton solution for the spin-polarized current in a uniaxial ferromagnetic nanowire. Our results show that the amplitude of the soliton solution has a spatial and temporal period on the background of a periodic spin current. The effective mass of the soliton is obtained. Moreover we found that the soliton can be trapped only in space. We also analyze the modulation instability and dark soliton on the background of a periodic spin current. This soliton solution shows the characteristic breather behavior of the soliton as it propagates along the ferromagnetic nanowire. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This work was supported by NSF of China under Grants No. 90403034 No. 90406017 No. 6055417 and No. 106471 NKBRSF of China under Grants No. 005CB74508 and No. 006CB91400 the Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province of China Grant No. A007000006 the Foundation of the Education Bureau of Hebei Province of China Grant No. 006110 the key subject construction project of Hebei Provincial University of China and the Provincial Natural Science Foundation of Shanxi Grant No. 007011007. 1 A. Brataas G. E. W. Bauer and P. J. Kelly Phys. Rep. 47 157 006. Z. Li and S. Zhang Phys. Rev. B 70 04417 004. 3 I. Žutić J. Fabian and S. Das Sarma Rev. Mod. Phys. 76 33 004. 4 J. C. Slonczewski J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 159 L1 1996. 5 L. Berger Phys. Rev. B 54 9353 1996. 6 J. A. Katine F. J. Albert R. A. Buhrman E. B. Myers and D. C. Ralph Phys. Rev. Lett. 84 3149 000. 7 Y. B. Bazaliy B. A. Jones and S. C. Zhang Phys. Rev. B 57 R313 1998 ; J. C. Slonczewski J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 195 L61 1999. 8 S. M. Rezende F. M. de Aguiar and A. Azevedo Phys. Rev. B 73 09440 006 ; 9 J. Z. Sun J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 0 157 1999 ; J. Z. Sun D. J. Monsma M. J. Rooks and R. H. Koch Appl. Phys. Lett. 81 0 00. 10 J. E. Wegrowe D. Kelly Y. Jaccard Ph. Guittienne and J. Ph. Ansermet Europhys. Lett. 45 66 1999. 11 C. Heide P. E. Zilberman and R. J. Elliott Phys. Rev. B 63 06444 001 ; S. Zhang P. M. Levy and A. Fert Phys. Rev. Lett. 88 36601 00. 1 M. Tsoi V. Tsoi J. Bass A. G. M. Jansen and P. Wyder Phys. Rev. Lett. 89 46803 00 ; J. E. Wegrowe X. Hoffer Ph. Guittienne A. Fabian L. Gravier T. Wade and J. Ph. Ansermet J. Appl. Phys. 91 6806 00. 13 T. Y. Chen Y. Ji C. L. Chien and M. D. Stiles Phys. Rev. Lett. 93 06601 004. 14 E. B. Myers D. C. Ralph J. A. Katine R. N. Louie and R. A. Buhrman Science 85 867 1999. 15 Z. Li and S. Zhang Phys. Rev. Lett. 9 0703 004 ; P.B. He X. C. Xie and W. M. Liu Phys. Rev. B 7 17411 005. 16 X. Liu Xiong-Jun Liu and Mo-Lin Ge Phys. Rev. B 71 4419 005. 17 Z. D. Li J. Q. Liang L. Li and W. M. Liu Phys. Rev. E 69 066611 004. 18 P. B. He and W. M. Liu Phys. Rev. B 7 064410 005 ; Z. D. Li and Q. Y. Li Ann. Phys. N.Y. 3 1961 007 ; Z.D. Li Q. Y. Li X. H. Hu Z. X. Zheng and Y. Sun Ann. Phys. N.Y. o be published. 19 Linear and Nonlinear Spin Waves in Magnetic Films and Superlattices edited by M. G. Cottam World Scientific Singapore 1994. 0 M. Tsoi A. G. M. Jansen J. Bass W. C. Chiang M. Seck V. Tsoi and P. Wyder Phys. Rev. Lett. 80 481 1998 ; M. Tsoi A. G. M. Jansen J. Bass W. C. Chiang V. Tsoi and P. Wyder Nature London 406 46 000. 1 Y. Yamada W. P. Van Drent E. N. Abarra and T. Suzuki J. Appl. Phys. 83 657 1998. L. Belliard J. Miltat V. Kottler V. Mathet C. Chappert and T. Valet J. Appl. Phys. 81 5315 1997. 3 A. M. Kosevich B. A. Ivanov and A. S. Kovalev Phys. Rep. 194 117 1990. 4 R. Hirota J. Math. Phys. 14 805 1973. 5 V. B. Matveev and M. A. Salli Darboux Transformations and Solitons Springer Series in Nonlinear Dynamics Vol. 5 Springer Berlin 1991. 6 C. H. Gu H. S. Hu and Z. X. Zhou Darboux Transformation in Soliton Theory and its Geometric Applications Scientific and Technical Publishers Shanghai 1999 in Chinese. 7 L. Li Z. H. Li S. Q. Li and G. S. Zhou Opt. Commun. 34 169 004 ; S. Q. Li L. Li Z. H. Li and G. S. Zhou J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 1 089 004. 8 W. M. Liu B. Wu X. Zhou D. K. Campbell S. T. Chui and Q. Niu Phys. Rev. B 65 17416 00. 9 M. J. Ablowitz and P. A. Clarkson Solitons Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Inverse Scattering Cambridge University Press Cambridge U.K. 1991. 06605-7