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Volume 100, Number 2, October 2012
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| Article Number | 27004 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/100/27004 | |
| Published online | 01 November 2012 | |
Magnetic vortices induced by a moving tip
1 Faculty of Physics and CeNIDE, University of Duisburg-Essen - D-47048 Duisburg, Germany, EU
2 Universität Würzburg, Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie - D-97074 Würzburg, Germany, EU
3 Instituto de Fisica, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - 91501-970 Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
Received: 13 July 2012
Accepted: 4 October 2012
A two-dimensional easy-plane ferromagnetic substrate, interacting with a dipolar tip which is magnetised perpendicular with respect to the easy plane is studied numerically by solving the Landau-Lifshitz Gilbert equation. Due to the symmetry of the dipolar field of the tip, in addition to the collinear structure a magnetic vortex structure becomes stable. It is robust against excitations caused by the motion of the tip. We show that for high excitations the system may perform a transition between the two states. The influence of domain walls, which may also induce this transition, is examined.
PACS: 75.70.Kw – Domain structure (including magnetic bubbles and vortices) / 75.78.Fg – Dynamics of domain structures / 75.10.Hk – Classical spin models
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