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Magnetic vortex as a ground state for micron-scale antiferromagnetic samples

Materials Science 2015-05-18 v1

Abstract

Here we consider micron-sized samples with any axisymmetric body shape and made with a canted antiferromagnet, like hematite or iron borate. We find that its ground state can be a magnetic vortex with a topologically non-trivial distribution of the sublattice magnetization l\vec{l} and planar coreless vortex-like structure for the net magnetization M\vec{M}. For antiferromagnetic samples in the vortex state, in addition to low-frequency modes, we find high-frequency modes with frequencies over the range of hundreds of gigahertz, including a mode localized in a region of radius \sim 30--40 nm near the vortex core.

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@article{arxiv.1004.0606,
  title  = {Magnetic vortex as a ground state for micron-scale antiferromagnetic samples},
  author = {E. G. Galkina and A. Yu. Galkin and B. A. Ivanov and Franco Nori},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.0606},
  year   = {2015}
}

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20 pages, 1 figure

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