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周期磁化薄膜纳米磁体磁化强度的热稳定性

Thermal Stability of the Magnetization in Perpendicularly Magnetized Thin Film Nanomagnets

Gabriel D. Chaves-OFlynn, Eric Vanden-Eijnden, D. L. Stein, A. D. Kent

摘要:

当设计垂直磁化的图案化介质和磁性随机存取存储器时,理解具有垂直磁各向异性(PMA)的薄膜纳米磁体对抗热致磁化反转的稳定性是重要的。磁化反转率的前导顺序依赖性由系统需要克服以进行反转的能量势垒决定。在本文中,我们研究这些系统的反转动力学和计算相关的障碍,使用弦方法的E,范登-艾金登,任。我们发现反转往往是空间不相干的,也就是说,而不是磁化翻转作为一个刚性的单位,反转收益,而不是通过一个孤立的畴壁扫过系统。我们发现,对于正方形纳米磁性元件的能量势垒随元件尺寸增加到一个临界长度尺度,超过该尺度的能量势垒是恒定的。对于圆形元素,能量势垒继续无限地增加,尽管超过临界尺寸时会更慢。在这两种情况下的能量势垒小于预期的相干磁化反转。

英文摘要:

Understanding the stability of thin film nanomagnets with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) against thermally induced magnetization reversal is important when designing perpendicularly magnetized patterned media and magnetic random access memories. The leading-order dependence of magnetization reversal rates are governed by the energy barrier the system needs to surmount in order for reversal to proceed. In this paper we study the reversal dynamics of these systems and compute the relevant barriers using the string method of E, Vanden-Eijnden, and Ren. We find the reversal to be often spatially incoherent; that is, rather than the magnetization flipping as a rigid unit, reversal proceeds instead through a soliton-like domain wall sweeping through the system. We show that for square nanomagnetic elements the energy barrier increases with element size up to a critical length scale, beyond which the energy barrier is constant. For circular elements the energy barrier continues to increase indefinitely, albeit more slowly beyond a critical size. In both cases the energy barriers are smaller than those expected for coherent magnetization reversal.

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