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We provide a simple explanation of complex magnetic patterns observed in ferromagnetic nanostructures. To this end we identify elementary topological defects in the field of magnetization: ordinary vortices in the bulk and vortices with…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Oleg Tchernyshyov , Gia-Wei Chern

Antiferromagnets with vanishingly small (or zero) magnetization are interesting candidates for spintronics applications. In the present paper we propose two models for description of the current-induced phenomena in antiferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-03 Helen Gomonay , Vadim Loktev

We study theoretically the behavior of vortices in a thin film superconductor placed close to a soft magnetic film. It is shown that the field from the vortex induces a magnetization distribution in the soft magnetic film, thus modifying…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Lars Egil Helseth

The study of the interaction between superconductivity and charge ordering is helpful to resolve the pairing mechanism in high-temperature superconductors. Recently, several resistance oscillations studies trigger the speculation that a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-29 Changshuai Lan , Chuanwen Zhao , Xin Yi , Qiao Chen , Xinming Zhao , Dong Wu , Chengyu Yan , Shun Wang

The switching process of the vortex core in a Permalloy nanodisk affected by a rotating magnetic field is studied theoretically. A detailed description of magnetization dynamics is obtained by micromagnetic simulations.

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-08-26 Volodymyr P. Kravchuk , Denis D. Sheka , Yuri Gaididei , Franz G. Mertens

We investigate the formation and dynamics of spin textures in antiferromagnetic insulators adjacent to a heavy-metal substrate with strong spin-orbit interactions. Exchange coupling to conduction electrons engenders an effective anisotropy,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-17 Ricardo Zarzuela , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

The dynamics of magnetic flux quanta (Abrikosov vortices) determine the resistive response of superconductors. In pinning-free planar thin films, the penetration and motion of vortices are controlled by edge defects, leading to such…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-11-07 Igor Bogush , Oleksandr V. Dobrovolskiy , Vladimir M. Fomin

We have employed complete micromagnetic simulations to analyze dc current driven self-oscillations of a vortex core in a spin-valve nanopillar in a perpendicular field by including the coupled effect of the spin-torque and the magnetostatic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 G. Finocchio , V. S. Pribiag , L. Torres , R. A. Buhrman , B. Azzerboni

The interplay between superconductivity and magnetism gives rise to many intriguing and exciting phenomena. In this Letter we report about a novel manifestation of this interplay: a temperature induced phase transition between different…

Using analytical expressions for the magnetization textures of thin submicron-sized magnetic cylinders in vortex state, we derive closed-form algebraic expressions for the ensuing small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) cross sections.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 Konstantin L. Metlov , Andreas Michels

Domain wall (DW) motion is a crucial process involved in magnetization reversal, be it under magnetic field or spin-polarized current stimulus. In most cases DW speed does not exceed $\approx$100m/s and collapses above a given threshold of…

We present a phenomenological theory of altermagnets, that captures their unique magnetization dynamics and allows modelling magnetic textures in this new magnetic phase. Focusing on the prototypical d-wave altermagnets, e.g. RuO$_2$, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-30 O. Gomonay , V. P. Kravchuk , R. Jaeschke-Ubiergo , K. V. Yershov , T. Jungwirth , L. Šmejkal , J. van den Brink , J. Sinova

Magnetic vortices existing in soft magnetic nanoparticles with sizes larger than the single-domain diameter can be efficient nano-heaters in biomedical applications. Using micromagnetic numerical simulation we prove that in the optimal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-04 N. A. Usov , M. S. Nesmeyanov , V. P. Tarasov

Equilibrium magnetization distribution of the vortex state magnetic nanoparticle is affected by the influence of the spin-transfer torque: an off-center out--of--plane vortex appears in the case of the disk shape particle and pure planar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Volodymyr P. Kravchuk , Denis D. Sheka , Franz G. Mertens , Yuri Gaididei

On the basis of the Bogoliubov-de Gennes theory for the two-dimensional extended Hubbard model, the vortex structure in d-wave superconductors is investigated including the contribution of the induced incommensurate antiferromagnetism…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Mitsuaki Takigawa , Masanori Ichioka , Kazushige Machida

A vortex-antivortex dipole can be generated due to current with in-plane spin-polarization, flowing into a magnetic element, which then behaves as a spin transfer oscillator. Its dynamics is analyzed using the Landau-Lifshitz equation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Stavros Komineas

In superconductors, the search for special vortex states such as giant vortices focuses on laterally confined or nanopatterned thin superconducting films, disks, rings, or polygons. We examine the possibility to realize giant vortex states…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-03-06 V. N. Gladilin , J. Tempere , I. F. Silvera , J. T. Devreese , V. V. Moshchalkov

We carry out a systematic analytic investigation of stationary and cylindrically symmetric vortex configurations for simple models representing an incompressible non-relativistic superconductor in a rigidly rotating background. It is shown…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Brandon Carter , Reinhard Prix , David Langlois

Recent experiments on the conductance of thin, narrow superconducting strips have found periodic fluctuations, as a function of the perpendicular magnetic field, with a period corresponding to approximately two flux quanta per strip area…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-17 David Pekker , Gil Refael , Paul M. Goldbart

Comprehending the interaction between geometry and magnetism in three-dimensional (3D) nanostructures is of importance to understand the fundamental physics of domain wall (DW) formation and pinning. Here, we use focused electron…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-31 John Fullerton , Arthur R. C. McCray , Amanda K. Petford-Long , Charudatta Phatak