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Thermally induced magnetization dynamics is currently a flourishing field of research due to its potential application in information technology. We study the paradigmatic system of a magnetic domain wall in a thermal gradient which is interacting with an adjacent superconductor. The spin-transfer torques arising in this system due to the combined action of the giant thermoelectric effect and the creation of equal-spin pairs in the superconductor are large enough to give rise to high domain wall velocities 10³ times larger than previously predicted.

I. V. Bobkova, A. M. Bobkov, and Wolfgang Belzig, Thermally induced spin-transfer torques in superconductor/ferromagnet bilayers, 
Phys. Rev. B 103, L020503