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We report the realization of a completely controllable high-speed nanomechanical memory element fabricated from single-crystal silicon wafers. This element consists of a doubly-clamped suspended nanomechanical beam structure, which can be…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert L. Badzey , Guiti Zolfagharkhani , Alexei Gaidarzhy , Pritiraj Mohanty

Spin-orbit-torque-driven dynamics have recently gained interest in the field of magnetism due to the reduced requirement of current densities and an increase in efficiency, as well as the ease of implementation of different devices and…

Controlling the vortex chirality in ferromagnetic nanodots and nanorings has been a topic of investigation for the last few years. Many control methods have been proposed and it has been found that the control is related to the breaking of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-22 Uladzislau Makartsou , Mathieu Moalic , Mateusz Zelent , Michal Mruczkiewicz , Maciej Krawczyk

Arrays of Ni nanodots embedded in Nb superconducting films have been fabricated by sputtering and electron beam lithography techniques. The arrays are periodic triangular lattices of circular Ni dots arranged in a kagom\'e-like pattern with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-11-09 D. Perez de Lara , A. Alija , E. M. Gonzalez , M. Velez , J. I. Martin , J. L. Vicent

A magnetometric technique is demonstrated that may be suitable for precision measurements of fields ranging from the sub-microgauss level to above the Earth field. It is based on resonant nonlinear magneto-optical rotation caused by atoms…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Budker , D. F. Kimball , V. V. Yashchuk , M. Zolotorev

In this paper we show that the vortex states can be created not only in magnetically soft "small" (with the dipolar and exchange energy competition) cylindrical dots, but also in magnetically saturated "big" (when the exchange is neglected)…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 E. O. Kamenetskii

Magnetically driven microparticles provide a versatile platform for probing and manipulating biological systems, yet the physical framework governing their actuation in complex environments remains only partially explored. Within the field…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-15 Andrea Visonà , Robert Morel , Hélène Joisten , Bernard Dieny , Alice Nicolas

Magnetic fields break time-reversal symmetry, which is leveraged in many settings to enable the nonreciprocal behavior of light. This is the core physics of circulators and other elements used in a variety of microwave and optical settings.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-19 Brittany Richman , Jacob M. Taylor

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…

Reducing energy dissipation while increasing speed in computation and memory is a long-standing challenge for spintronics research. In the last 20 years, femtosecond lasers have emerged as a tool to control the magnetization in specific…

We investigate the rotational response of both non-dipolar and dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates confined in an annular potential. For the non-dipolar case we identify certain critical rotational frequencies associated with the formation of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-05 E. Ö. Karabulut , F. Malet , G. M. Kavoulakis , S. M. Reimann

We investigate the vortex excitations induced by a spin-polarized current in a magnetic nanopillar by means of micromagnetic simulations and analytical calculations. Damped motion, stationary vortex rotation and the switching of the vortex…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 A. V. Khvalkovskiy , J. Grollier , A. Dussaux , K. A. Zvezdin , V. Cros

We report on the switching of the magnetic vortex core in a Pac-man disk using a magnetic field pulse, investigated via micromagnetic simulations. The minimum core switching field is reduced by 72 % compared to that of a circular disk with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Tomonori Sato , Keisuke Yamada , Yoshinobu Nakatani

A vortex-antivortex (VA) dipole may be generated due to a spin-polarized current flowing through a nano-aperture in a magnetic element. We study the vortex dipole dynamics using the Landau-Lifshitz equation in the presence of an in-plane…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-19 Stavros Komineas

The PZT/FeGa thin film memtranstor was prepared and the modulation of the magnetoelectric coefficient by external magnetic and electric fields was studied. The magnetoelectric coefficient of the PZT/FeGa memtranstor can be reversed by…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-10-24 Jin-Cheng He , Jian Xing , Jian-Xin Shen , Dan Su , En-Ke Liu , Shou-Guo Wang , Young Sun

Memristors are non-volatile nano-resistors. Their resistance can be tuned by applied currents or voltages and set to a large number of levels between two limit values. Thanks to these properties, memristors are ideal building blocks for a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-26 Steven Lequeux , Joao Sampaio , Vincent Cros , Kay Yakushiji , Akio Fukushima , Rie Matsumoto , Hitoshi Kubota , Shinji Yuasa , Julie Grollier

We propose a design for the magnetic memory cell which allows an efficient storage, recording, and readout of information on the basis of thin film ferromagnetic nanorings. The information bit is represented by the polarity of a stable…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 C. B. Muratov , V. V. Osipov

We have conducted experiments to probe how the dynamics of nanocontact vortex oscillators can be modulated by an external signal. We explore the phase-locking properties in both the commensurate and chaotic regimes, where chaos appears to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-25 Jérémy Létang , Sébastien Petit-Watelot , Myoung-Woo Yoo , Thibaut Devolder , Karim Bouzehouane , Vincent Cros , Joo-Von Kim

We investigate the switching of a magnetic nanoparticle comprising the middle free layer of a memory cell based on a double magnetic tunnel junction under the combined effect of spin-polarized current and weak on-chip magnetic field. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-29 Yu. Dzhezherya , P. Polynchuk , A. Kravets , V. Korenivski

The magnetization orientation of a nanoscale ferromagnet can be manipulated using an electric current via the spin transfer effect. Time domain measurements of nanopillar devices at low temperatures have directly shown that magnetization…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-04-27 Samir Garzon , Longfei Ye , Richard A. Webb , Thomas M. Crawford , Mark Covington , Shehzaad Kaka