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A micromagnetic numerical study of the precessional motion of the vortex and antivortex states in soft ferromagnetic circular nanodots is presented using Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert dynamics. For sufficiently small dot thickness and diameter,…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-03-28 Andreas Lyberatos , Stavros Komineas , Nikos Papanicolaou

Topological magnetic textures such as vortex cores or skyrmions are key candidates for non-volatile information processing. This exploits the texture movement by current pulses that is typically opposed by pinning. A detailed understanding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Christian Holl , Marvin Knol , Marco Pratzer , Jonathan Chico , Imara Lima Fernandes , Samir Lounis , Markus Morgenstern

Polar topological textures in ferroelectrics can host internal structure beyond a single integer topological charge. Here, effective-Hamiltonian molecular-dynamics simulations are used to examine whether such internal fractional topology…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-21 Florian Mayer

The relationship between magnetization and light has been the subject of intensive research for the past century, focusing on the impact of magnetic moments on light polarization. Conversely, the manipulation of magnetism through polarized…

Spin transfer torque-induced high-frequency dynamics of single thin cobalt-layer nanopillars of circular and elliptical shape have been observed directly. Two types of precessional modes can be identified as a function of magnetic field…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-01-13 N. Müsgens , S. Fahrendorf , T. Maassen , A. Heiss , J. Mayer , B. Özyilmaz , B. Beschoten , G. Güntherodt

We demonstrate magnetic switching between two $360^\circ$ domain wall vortex states in cobalt nanorings, which are candidate magnetic states for robust and low power MRAM devices. These $360^\circ$ domain wall (DW) or "twisted onion" states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Nihar R. Pradhan , Abigail Licht , Yihan Li , Yineng Sun , Mark T. Tuominen , Katherine E. Aidala

We use a sensitive magneto-optical microscopy technique to image the magnetization response of micron-scale ferromagnetic disks to changes in applied magnetic field. This differential technique relies on a modulated applied magnetic field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 Robert Badea , Johnathon A. Frey , Jesse Berezovsky

We present a two-current-pulse temporal correlation experiment to study the intrinsic subnanosecond nonequilibrium magnetic dynamics of a nanomagnet during and following a pulse excitation. This method is applied to a model spin-transfer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-25 H. Liu , D. Bedau , J. Z. Sun , S. Mangin , E. E. Fullerton , J. A. Katine , A. D. Kent

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…

The seeding of vortex domain walls in V-shaped nanowires by a magnetic field has been investigated via simulations and Scanning Electron Microscopy with Polarization Analysis (SEMPA). It is found that the orientation of the magnetic field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-02 S. Hankemeier , A. Kobs , R. Froemter , H. P. Oepen

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

The dynamics of vortex states in confined geometries like thin-film disks are characterized by a sub-GHz gyration, representing the damped oscillatory motion of the vortex core about the disk center. It has recently been shown that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Gauthier Philippe , Joo-Von Kim

Two effects of oscillatory transformations of vortex textures in flat nanomagnets due to the application of an external field or a spin-polarized electric current are analytically described with relevance to soft-magnetic structures of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-06 Andrzej Janutka

We discuss a possible mechanism of the spin-transfer induced oscillations of a vortex in the free layer of spin-valve nanostructures, in which the polarizer layer has a planar magnetization. We demonstrate that if such planar polarizer is…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-18 A. V. Khvalkovskiy , J. Grollier , N. Locatelli , Ya. V. Gorbunov , K. A. Zvezdin , V. Cros

We have studied magnetic vortex oscillations in soft sub-micron cylindrical dots with variable thickness and diameter by an analytical approach and micromagnetic simulations. We have considered two kinds of modes of the vortex magnetization…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Yu. Guslienko , W. Scholz , R. W. Chantrell , V. Novosad

Light pulses offer a faster, more energy-efficient, and direct route to magnetic bit writing, pointing toward a hybrid memory and computing paradigm based on photon transmission and spin retention. Yet progress remains hindered, as…

In this paper, using micromagnetic simulations, we investigate the stress-induced frequency tunability of double-vortex nano-oscillators comprising magnetostrictive and non-magnetostrictive ferromagnetic layers separated vertically by a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Vadym Iurchuk , Attila Kákay , Alina M. Deac

We investigate cooling of a vibrational mode of a magnetic quantum dot by a spin-polarized tunneling charge current, exploiting the interaction between the magnetization and the vibration. The spin-polarized charge current polarizes the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-03 J. Brüggemann , S. Weiss , P. Nalbach , M. Thorwart

Propagation of the alternating electromagnetic field in a system of zigzag carbon nanotubes in the case of low temperatures and applied external electric fields are considered. The electronic system of the carbon nanotubes is investigated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-27 M. B. Belonenko , N. G. Lebedev , E. N. Nelidina , O. J. Tuzalina

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)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-24 Ahmad A. Awad , Antonio Lara , Vitali Metlushko , Konstantin Y. Guslienko , Farkhad G. Aliev