Broadband magnetization response of coupled vortex state magnetic dots in layered nanopillars was explored as a function of in-plane magnetic field and interlayer separation. For dipolarly coupled circular Py(25 nm)/Cu(20 nm)/Py(25 nm) nanopillars of 600 nm diameter, a small in-plane field splits the eigenfrequencies of azimuthal spin wave modes inducing an abrupt transition between in-phase and out-of-phase kinds of the low-lying coupled spin wave modes. The critical field for this splitting is determined by antiparallel chiralities of the vortices in the layers. Qualitatively similar (although more gradual) changes occur also in the exchange coupled Py(25 nm)/Cu(1 nm)/Py(25 nm) tri-layer nanopillars. These findings are in qualitative agreement with micromagnetic dynamic simulations.
@article{arxiv.1209.4822,
title = {Broadband probing magnetization dynamics of the coupled vortex state permalloy layers in nanopillars},
author = {Ahmad A. Awad and Antonio Lara and Vitali Metlushko and Konstantin Y. Guslienko and Farkhad G. Aliev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1209.4822},
year = {2012}
}