Universal magnetic domain wall dynamics in the presence of weak disorder

The motion of elastic interfaces in disordered media is a broad topic relevant to many branches of physics. Field-driven magnetic domain wall motion in ultrathin ferromagnetic Pt/Co/Pt films can be well interpreted within the framework of theories developed to describe elastic interface dynamics in the presence of weak disorder. Indeed, the three theoretically predicted dynamic regimes of creep, depinning, and flow have all been directly evidenced in this model experimental system. We discuss these dynamic regimes and demonstrate how field-driven creep can be controlled not only by temperature and pinning, but also via interactions with magnetic entities located inside or outside the magnetic layer. Consequences of confinement effects in nano-devices are briefly reviewed, as some recent results on domain wall motion driven by an electric current or assisted by an electric field. Finally new theoretical developments and perspectives are discussed.     

Effect of a planar magnetic field on the domain wall dynamics in a double-layer uniaxial magnetic film

Motion of an isolated domain wall in a double-layer uniaxial magnetic film, where the film layers differ in characteristic length, saturation magnetization and damping parameter, is investigated by solving the Slonczewski equation. A planar magnetic field is applied normal to the domain-wall plane. The dependences of the threshold field and limiting velocity of disruption of the steady-state motion of the domain wall on the planar magnetic field value are obtained. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 12, pp. 60–63, December, 2008.     

Magneto-optical study of domain wall dynamics and giant Barkhausen jump in magnetic microwires

Investigation of surface domain walls motion in Co-rich magnetic microwires has been performed in circular and axial magnetic fields. The dc axial magnetic field acceleration of the domain wall motion related to the influence of the axial field on the structure of the moving domain wall has been discovered. Pulsed axial magnetic field induced unidirectional motion of surface domain wall also has been found.     

Dynamics of magnetic domain wall motion after nucleation: dependence on the wall energy

The dynamics of magnetic domain wall motion in the FeNi layer of a FeNi/Al2O3/Co trilayer has been investigated by a combination of x-ray magnetic circular dichroism, photoelectron emission microscopy, and a stroboscopic pump-probe technique. The nucleation of domains and subsequent expansion by domain wall motion in the FeNi layer during nanosecond-long magnetic field pulses was observed in the viscous regime up to the Walker limit field. We attribute an observed delay of domain expansion to the influence of the domain wall energy that acts against the domain expansion and that plays an important role when domains are small.     

Gyroscopic dynamics of antiferromagnetic vortices in the orthoferrite domain wall

The method of generation of antiferromagnetic vortices on the supersound domain wall in the orthoferrites was proposed. Moving antiferromagnetic vortices were accompanied by the solitary deflection waves. These waves were used for investigation of generation and nonlinear dynamics of the antiferromagnetic vortices on a moving domain wall with the help of two- and three-fold digital high-speed photography and Faraday rotation in the orthoferrites plates cut perpendicular to the optical axis. The full velocity of antiferromagnetic vortex nonlinearly increases and saturates on the spin velocity level c. The vortices with smallest topological charges saturate earlier than with big one. The vortices velocity along the domain wall u increases up to the maximum and goes to the dependence u²+v²=c². Vortex dynamics is quasirelativistic on quasirelativistic domain wall. The theory of gyroscopic force in the domain wall of orthoferrites was elaborated by Zvezdin et al. and was confirmed our earlier experimental results.     

Influence of magnetic powders on the tribological performance of a novel magnetic brake material

By adding magnetic powders into matrix material, it has been proved to be a creative approach to improve tribological properties of brake materials. In this paper, a novel magnetic brake material with Nd–Fe–B and nano-Fe₃O₄ was developed, and the influential mechanism of these two magnetic powders and their content on the friction and wear performance was deeply discussed. Firstly, some experiments were carried out to investigate the tribological performance and influential mechanisms of four groups of brake pad samples with different magnetic powders. Furthermore, based on these results, further experiments for investigating the influence that Nd–Fe–B contents have on the tribological properties were conducted. According to the theoretical analysis about experiments, it was concluded that nano-Fe₃O₄ is beneficial to promote the formation of friction film and has certain lubricant effects. However, Nd–Fe–B has double effects on the formation of friction film. It will have positive effects when its content is less than a certain value. Otherwise, it will destroy the structure of friction film. Conclusively, it is believed that this study will be significantly valuable and meaningful for developing new brake materials and improving safety reliability of mechanical brakes.     

Influence of the magnetoelastic anisotropy on the domain wall dynamics in bistable amorphous wires

We deal with the influence of the applied stress on the domain wall velocity in glass-coated magnetic microwires. In general, the domain wall velocity decreases with the applied tensile stress. Four regimes of the domain wall dynamics appear: (1)?diffusion-damped, (2)?a regime with variable domain wall width, (3)?a viscous and (4)?a vortex regime. Detailed analysis of domain wall parameters shows that the structural relaxation plays an important role even at ambient temperatures if high tensile stress is present. At higher fields (viscous regime), the most important damping arises from magnetic relaxation of magnetic moments. Finally, the domain wall velocity steeply increases (reaching a maximum at 7000?m?s(-1)) in the vortex regime and so does the domain wall mobility.     

Effect of a pulsed magnetic field on the nonlinear dynamics of vortexlike domain walls in magnetic films

The Landau-Lifshitz equation is numerically solved to study the nonlinear dynamic behavior of domain walls with the 2D vortexlike magnetization distribution in magnetically uniaxial films that have in-plane anisotropy and are exposed to a pulsed magnetic field. It is shown that a pulsed magnetic field H _p may induce transitions between various steady wall motions that differ in magnetization distribution. Solitary rectangular pulses, as well as a regular train of rectangular pulses, may be used to control the period of nonlinear dynamic transformations of the wall internal structure and the related period of variation of the wall velocity.     

Classical dependence of the domain wall velocity on the magnetic field in garnet ferrite films with orthorhombic magnetic anisotropy

The dependence of the domain wall velocity V on the acting magnetic field H is investigated for bismuth-containing single-crystal garnet ferrite films with orthorhombic magnetic anisotropy. It is shown that this dependence includes both the initial linear portion and a saturation portion and exhibits a complex behavior. This behavior is explained within the model of domain wall motion with spin wave radiation.     

The influence of magnetic impurities in the vortex core dynamics in magnetic nano-disks

In this work we have used spin dynamics simulations to study the gyrotropic frequency behavior in nano-disks of Permalloy with magnetic impurities. We consider the effect of attractive impurity and repulsive impurity placed near the vortex core gyrotropic trajectory. We observed that the gyrotropic frequency is affected by the presence of impurity. The gyrotropic frequency shift depends on the relative position between the impurity and the vortex core gyrotropic trajectory and if impurity is attractive or repulsive. Our results agree with the analytical model and with experimental behavior for the gyrotropic frequency shown in the literature.     

Influence of physisorbed water molecules on the dynamics of domain wall in an amorphous ferromagnet

It was found that physisorbed water molecules affect the near-surface dynamics of a 180° domain wall in an amorphous FeCuNbSiB ferromagnet. In the range of water vapor pressures 400–1300 Pa, the oscillating domain walls suffer enhanced damping in the near-surface region and reduce their relaxation frequency from 10 to 4 kHz. This effect is explained by the influence of surface magnetic defects arising due to the pressure produced by the clusters of physisorbed water molecules on the walls of micropores at the magnet surface.     

Influence of three-dimensional inhomogeneities of the magnetic parameters on the dynamics of vortex-like domain walls

The interaction of a vortex-like domain wall moving in an external magnetic field with a three-dimensional periodic chain of cubic volumes with high values of the saturation magnetization and magnetic anisotropy constant has been investigated theoretically. It has been found that the result of the interaction depends on the initial distance between the wall and the region of inhomogeneity of magnetic parameters at the moment of turning on the external magnetic field. The pinning of domain walls near the regions with high values of the saturation magnetization and magnetic anisotropy constant has been investigated, and the anisotropy of the corresponding depinning fields has been revealed. The method of investigation is the numerical micromagnetic simulation.     

消磁场对纳米铁磁线磁畴壁动力学行为的影响

为了实现基于磁畴壁运动的自旋电子学装置, 掌握磁畴壁动力学行为是重要争论之一.研究了在外磁场驱动下L-型纳米铁磁线磁畴壁的动力学行为. 通过微磁学模拟,在各种外磁场的驱动下考察了纳米铁磁线磁畴壁的动力学特性; 在较强外磁场的驱动下, 在不同厚度纳米线上考察了纳米线表面消磁场对磁畴壁动力学行为的影响. 为了进一步证实消磁场对磁畴壁动力学的影响, 在垂直于纳米线表面的外磁场辅助下分析了磁畴壁的动力学行为变化. 结果表明, 随着纳米线厚度和外驱动磁场强度的增加, 增强了纳米线表面的消磁场的形成, 使得磁畴壁内部自旋结构发生周期性变化, 导致磁畴壁在纳米线上传播时出现Walker崩溃现象. 在垂直于纳米线表面的外磁场辅助下, 发现辅助磁场可以调节消磁场的强度和方向. 这意味着利用辅助磁场可以有效地控制纳米铁磁线磁畴壁的动力学行为.     

Inhibition of domain wall formation and its effects on the bulk magnetic properties of certain spinels

It is shown that hysteresis and susceptibility studies at various temperatures could provide an idea whether a magnetic sample contains multidomain, single-domain or superparamagnetic particles. Our results on titanomagnetites with those of others on cobalt substituted magnesium ferrites suggest that domain wall formation is inhibited in some of them whereby only single-domain or superparamagnetic particles occur irrespective of the physical grain size of such materials. At high concentration of titanium in titanomagnetites, the magnetic behaviour is similar to a spin glass, which we interpret as a transition of optimum single-domains going over to superparamagnetic state.     

Analysis by speckle interferometry of the dependency of yield stress on residual stress

We used electronic speckle pattern interferometry (ESPI) to measure in situ displacement fields nondestructively and with high resolution (10⁻² μm) by using the interferometry principle and the phase-shift technique. We measured the depth profile of the residual stress in steel pipe manufactured by thermomechanically controlled processing using a quantitative model, which explains the relationship between residual stress and displacement measured by ESPI in chemical etching. We analyzed the variation of yield stresses measured by the indentation technique and the residual stresses at various depths. The relationship between the residual stresses and the yield stresses was consistent with simulated results and can be used for indirect evaluation of the residual stresses from the yield stresses.     

The influence of glass coating on the single domain wall potential in amorphous glass-coated Fe-based microwires

The effect of the glass coating on the single domain wall potential in amorphous glass-coated Fe-based microwire has been studied by the switching field distribution technique. The thermoactivated mechanism model is used to describe the thermally activated switching through the complex energy barrier in amorphous FeSiB microwires. Glass removal leads to the increase of the probability of the thermally activated switching pointing to the decrease of the energy barrier.     

Micromagnetic investigation of the sub-nanosecond magnetic pulse driven domain wall motion in CoFeB nanowire

We report our micromagnetic simulations based on Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation for CoFeB nanowire which was exposed by sub-nanosecond magnetic pulse with varied pulse width between 100 and 1000 ps. It is found that the Walker Breakdown field (H_WB) shifted as the field pulse duration decreased and reached at the highest value in case of 100 ps pulse width, then decreased steeply with respect to the pulse width up to 400 ps. H_WB values are not significantly dependent for pulses longer than 500 ps. It is observed that, below the H_WB, the exchange energy is larger than the demagnetization energy in the wider nanowire. By energy density analysis, it is understood that the increase of H_WB values in the cases of narrower pulse width was to compensate the energy needed to move the DW.     

The influence of iron,fluorine and boron implantation on the magnetic properties of graphite

Iron, fluorine and boron ions were implanted into highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG). The samples were characterized before and after ion implantation as well as after heat treatments in vacuum by measurements of the magnetic moment and element analysis. Whereas the main magnetic contribution remains diamagnetic the paramagnetic one clearly increases with implantations and correlates with the amount of implanted ions. It is shown that a large part of the paramagnetic contribution is caused by the structural disorder created by particle bombardment using iron, fluorine or boron. All implanted HOPG samples show practically no change of the small ferromagnetic signal observed in their virgin state. No particular influence of iron on the ferromagnetic properties of HOPG is observed, up to ∼4000 μg/g Fe-concentration in the implanted region. For comparison, ferrous sulphates were added to ultra-clean graphite powder. This iron addition increases the number of paramagnetic spins proportional to the iron content in the untreated samples. In heat-treated samples however, a clear ferromagnetic behaviour is observed due to the formation of a ferromagnetic iron compound.