A model for describing structural pointlike defects in nanoscaled ferromagnetic materials is presented. Its details are explicitly developed whenever interacting with a vortex-like state comprised in a thin nanodisk. Among others, our model yields results for the vortex equilibrium position under the influence of several defects along with an external magnetic field in good qualitative agreement with experiments. We also discuss how such defects may affect the vortex motion, like its gyrotropic oscillation and dynamical polarization reversal.
@article{arxiv.0908.2986,
title = {A model for structural defects in nanomagnets},
author = {F. A. Apolonio and W. A. Moura-Melo and F. P. Crisafulli and A. R. Pereira and R. L. Silva},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0908.2986},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
8 pages, resubmitted to Journal of Applied Physics