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Nanomagnetic engineering of the properties of domain wall atom traps

Atomic Physics 2012-02-23 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Materials Science

Abstract

We have used the results of micromagnetic simulations to investigate the effects of nanowire geometry and domain wall magnetization structure on the characteristic parameters of magnetic atom traps formed by domain walls in planar ferromagnetic nanowires. It is found that when traps are formed in the near-field of a domain wall both nanowire geometry and wall structure have a substantial effect on trap frequency and adiabaticity. We also show that in certain regimes a trap's depth depends only on the amplitude of an externally applied rotating magnetic field, thus allowing it to be tuned independently of the trap's other critical parameters.

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@article{arxiv.1109.3666,
  title  = {Nanomagnetic engineering of the properties of domain wall atom traps},
  author = {Thomas J. Hayward and Adam D. West and Kevin J. Weatherill and Thomas Schrefl and Ifan G. Hughes and Dan A. Allwood},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.3666},
  year   = {2012}
}

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17 pages, 8 figures