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We investigate the dynamics of magnetic vortices in type II superconductors with normal state pinning sites using the Ginzburg-Landau equations. Simulation results demonstrate hopping of vortices between pinning sites, influenced by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-06-14 M. P. Soerensen , N. F. Pedersen , M. Ogren

Understanding the dynamics of magnetic vortices has emerged as an important challenge regarding the recent development of spin-torque vortex oscillators. Either micromagnetic simulations or the analytical Thiele equation approach are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-23 Simon De Wergifosse , Chloé Chopin , Flavio Abreu Araujo

The vortex patterns stabilized by the square array of artificial pinning sites with a tunable pinning strength are studied by using a phenomenological approach in the London limit. The transitions between pinned and deformed triangular…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 W. V. Pogosov , A. L. Rakhmanov , V. V. Moshchalkov

We examine vortex dynamics and pinning in layered superconductors using three-dimensional molecular dyanmics simulations of magnetically interacting pancake vortices. Our model treats the magnetic interactions of the pancakes exactly, with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-24 Charles Reichhardt , Cynthia J. Olson , Niels Gronbech-Jensen

Dynamics of magnetic vortex core switching in nanometer-scale permalloy disk, having a single vortex ground state, was investigated by micromagnetic modeling. When an in-plane magnetic field pulse with an appropriate strength and duration…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Q. F. Xiao , J. Rudge , B. C. Choi , Y. K. Hong , G. Donohoe

The effect of a periodic pinning array on the vortex state in a 2D superconductor at low temperatures is studied within the framework of the Ginzburg-Landau approach. It is shown that attractive interaction of vortex cores to a commensurate…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Zhuravlev , T. Maniv

The spin dynamics are calculated for a model system consisting of magnetically soft, layered nanomagnets, in which two ferromagnetic (F) cylindrical dots, each with a magnetic vortex ground state, are separated by a non-magnetic spacer (N).…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 K. Yu. Guslienko , K. S. Buchanan , S. D. Bader , V. Novosad

The structure and equilibrium properties of a two-dimensional system of superconducting vortices in a periodic pinning potential with square symmetry are studied numerically. For a range of the strength of the pinning potential, the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Toby Joseph , Chandan Dasgupta

The development of future spintronic applications requires a thorough and fundamental understanding of the magnetisation dynamics. Of particular interest are magnetic nanodisks, in which the vortex state emerges as a stable spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 Pieter Gypens , Jonathan Leliaert , Gisela Schütz , Bartel Van Waeyenberge

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

Melting of moving vortex lattices in clean superconducting films with periodic pinning is studied by a dynamical "cage" model, based on a mean-field treatment of Langevin's equations for the whole vortex lattice, assuming elastic flow. In…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Clécio C. de Souza Silva , Gilson Carneiro

This study conducts a comprehensive investigation into the reversal mechanism of magnetic vortex cores in a nanopillar system composed of two coupled ferromagnetic dots under zero magnetic field conditions. The research employs a…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-24 A. Hamadeh , A. Koujok , S. Perna , D. R. Rodrigues , A. Riveros , V. Lomakin , G. Finocchio , G. de Loubens , O. Klein , P. Pirro

The vortex dynamics in superconducting films deposited on top of a five-fold Penrose array of magnetic dots is studied by means of transport measurements. We show that in the low pinning regime (demagnetized dots) a few periodic and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 A. V. Silhanek , W. Gillijns , V. V. Moshchalkov , B. Y. Zhu , J. Moonens , L. H. A. Leunissen

It is shown that under the action of rotating magnetic field an immobile vortex, contrary to a general belief, can nucleate a vortex-antivortex pair and switch its polarity. Two different kinds of OOMMF micromagnetic modeling are used: (i)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-04-13 Volodymyr P. Kravchuk , Yuri Gaididei , Denis D. Sheka

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

The spin structure in a magnetic dot, which is an example of a quantum few-body system, is studied as a function of exchange coupling strength and dot size with in the semiclassical approximation on a discrete lattice. As the exchange…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Mohammad-Reza Mozaffari , Keivan Esfarjani

Under the action of an alternating perpendicular magnetic field the polarity of the vortex state nanodisk can be efficiently switched. We predict the regular and chaotic dynamics of the vortex polarity and propose simple analytical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-09 Oleksandr V. Pylypovskyi , Denis D. Sheka , Volodymyr P. Kravchuk , Franz G. Mertens , Yuri Gaididei

We employed micro-Hall magnetometry and micromagnetic simulations to investigate magnetic vortex pinning at single point defects in individual submicron-sized permalloy disks. Small ferromagnetic particles containing artificial point…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Rahm , R. Hoellinger , V. Umansky , D. Weiss

The stable vortex state that occurs in micron-scale magnetic disks is one of the most interesting and potentially useful phenomenon in nanomagnetism. A variety of tools have been applied to study the vortex state, and collective spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-07 P. H. Kim , F. Fani Sani , M. R. Freeman , J. P. Davis

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…

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