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Polarity reversal of a magnetic vortex core by a unipolar, nonresonant in-plane pulsed magnetic field

Appl. Phys. Lett. 94, 172506 (2009); doi:10.1063/1.3111430

Published 29 April 2009

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D. J. Keavney,1 X. M. Cheng,1 and K. S. Buchanan2,3
1Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
2Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
3Department of Physics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA

We report the polarity reversal of a magnetic vortex core using a nonresonant in-plane pulsed magnetic field of arbitrary waveform studied using time-resolved x-ray photoemission electron microscopy and micromagnetic simulations. The imaging and simulations show that a 5 mT pulse, higher than the critical field for nonlinear effects, effectively leads to the randomization of the vortex core polarity. The micromagnetic simulations further show that the onset of stochastic core polarity randomization does not necessarily coincide with the critical reversal field, leading to a field window for predictable core reversal. ©2009 American Institute of Physics
History: Received 21 January 2009; accepted 20 February 2009; published 29 April 2009
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PACS
  • 75.60.Ej
    Magnetization curves, hysteresis, Barkhausen and related effects
  • 75.50.Bb
    Ferromagnetism of Fe and its alloys
  • 79.60.-i
    Photoemission and photoelectron spectra (condensed matter)
  • YEAR: 2009

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