Hysteresis-free switching between vortex and collinear magnetic states

Autor: Erik Östman, Unnar B Arnalds, Emil Melander, Vassilios Kapaklis, Gunnar K Pálsson, Alexander Y Saw, Marc A Verschuuren, Florian Kronast, Evangelos Th Papaioannou, Charles S Fadley, Björgvin Hjörvarsson
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: New Journal of Physics, Vol 16, Iss 5, p 053002 (2014)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1367-2630
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/16/5/053002
Popis: We demonstrate a lossless switching between vortex and collinear magnetic states in circular FePd disks arranged in a square lattice. Above a bifurcation temperature $\left( {{T}_{\text{e}}} \right)$ we show that thermal fluctuations are enough to facilitate flipping between the two distinctly different magnetic states. We find that the temperature dependence of the vortex annihilation and nucleation fields can be described by a simple power law relating them to the saturation magnetization.
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