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We present evidence of magnetically controlled guided vortex motion in a hybrid superconductor/ferromagnet nanosystem consisting of an Al film on top of a square array of permalloy square rings. When the rings are magnetized with an…

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Domain wall motion induced by nanosecond current pulses in nanostripes with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (Pt/Co/AlO$_x$) is shown to exhibit negligible inertia. Time-resolved magnetic microscopy during current pulses reveals that the…

The evolution of domain structure is investigated in a two-dimensional voter model with three states under cyclic dominance. The study focus on the dynamics of vortices, defined by the points where three states (domains) meet. We can…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Gyorgy Szabo , M. A. Santos , J. F. F. Mendes

Stacked spin-vortex pairs in magnetic multilayered nanopillars, with vertical separation between the vortices small compared to the vortex core size, exhibit spin dynamics absent in individual vortices. This dynamics is nonlinear and is due…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-06 B. C. Koop , M. Gruschke , T. Descamps , A. Bondarenko , B. A. Ivanov , V. Korenivski

We investigate theoretically vortex-antivortex (v-av) matter moving in thin superconducting films with a regular array of in-plane magnetic dipoles. Our model considers v-av pair creation induced by the local current density generated by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-08-19 Cléssio L. S. Lima , Clécio C. de Souza Silva , .

We have measured the in-plane anisotropy of the vortex mobility in a thin Pb film with a square array of antidots. The Lorentz force, acting on the vortices, was rotated by adding two perpendicular currents and keeping the amplitude of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 A. V. Silhanek , L. Van Look , S. Raedts , R. Jonckheere , V. V. Moshchalkov

We have performed micromagnetic simulations of the vortex gyrotropic mode resonance in a range of disk geometries subject to spatially uniform out-of-plane magnetic fields. For disks of small lateral dimensions, we observe a drop-off in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-14 Jasper P. Fried , Hans Fangohr , Mikhail Kostylev , Peter J. Metaxas

Resistive transport near a superconducting phase can arise from the motion of normal-state quasiparticles or that of vortices. The conductivity alone does not distinguish between these mechanisms. We propose an unambiguous method for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-20 Yifan F. Zhang , Rhine Samajdar , Sarang Gopalakrishnan

In this work, we study the microwave field driven antiferromagnetic domain wall motion in an antiferromagnetic nanowire, using the numerical calculations based on a classical Heisenberg spin model. We show that a proper combination of a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-06-12 Z. Y. Chen , Z. R. Yan , Y. L. Zhang , M. H. Qin , Z. Fan , X. B. Lu , X. S. Gao , J. M. Liu

This study investigates a vortex sensor based on a nanoscale (sub-100 nm) magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) with a strong shape anisotropy, designed for sensitivity to the out-of-plane magnetic field component ($H_z$). The sensor comprises a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Ajay Jha , Alvaro Palomino , Stéphane Auffret , Hélène Béa , Ricardo C. Sousa , Liliana D. Buda-Prejbeanu , Bernard Dieny

The universal criterion for ultrafast vortex-core switching between the up- and down-core bistates in soft magnetic nanodots was investigated by micromagnetic simulations along with analytical calculations. Vortex-core switching occurs…

The bistability of the core magnetization of nano-scaled magnets with a magnetic vortex configuration has great potential for data storage applications. To exploit this, reliable switching between the two possible states is needed. Time…

Atomic force microscopy was used to investigate ferroelectric switching and nanoscale domain dynamics in epitaxial PbZr0.2Ti0.8O3 thin films. Measurements of the writing time dependence of domain size reveal a two-step process in which…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-11-07 P. Paruch , T. Giamarchi , T. Tybell , J. -M. Triscone

Searching for new methods controlling antiferromagnetic (AFM) domain wall is one of the most important issues for AFM spintronic device operation. In this work, we study theoretically the domain wall motion of an AFM nanowire, driven by the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-02-26 D. L. Wen , Z. Y. Chen , W. H. Li , M. H. Qin , D. Y. Chen , Z. Fan , M. Zeng , X. B. Lu , X. S. Gao , J. M. Liu

A set of equations describing the motion of a free magnetic nanoparticle in an external magnetic field in a vacuum, or in a medium with negligibly small friction forces is postulated. The conservation of the total particle momentum, i.e.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-08 N. A. Usov , B. Ya. Liubimov

We investigate vortex configuration in antiferromagnetic thin discs. It is shown that the vortex acquires oscillatory dynamics with well-defined amplitude and frequency which may be controlled on demand by an alternating spin polarized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-19 R. L. Silva , R. C. Silva , R. J. C. Lopes , W. A. Moura-Melo , A. R. Pereira

The vortex states in a thin mesoscopic disk are investigated within the phenomenological Ginzburg-Landau theory in the presence of different ''model'' magnetic field profiles with zero average field which may result from a ferromagnetic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 M. V. Milosevic , S. V. Yampolskii , F. M. Peeters

Ferromagnetic domain walls -transitional regions between magnetic domains- are an essential ingredient for racetrack memory, a device concept that promises to deliver faster and more compact memory storage compared to other non-volatile…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 A. L. Bassant , Y. M. J. Ohlsen , M. Cherkasskii , P. B. He , R. A. Duine

Topological vortex textures in magnetic disks have garnered great attention due to their interesting physics and diverse applications. However, up to now, the vortex state has mainly been studied in microsize ferromagnetic disks, which have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-14 Ji Zou , Even Thingstad , Se Kwon Kim , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

We report on results of computer micromodelling of anti-vortex states in asymmetrical cross-like ferromagnetic nanostructures and their practical realization. The arrays of cobalt crosses with 1 mkm branches, 100 nm widths of the branches…