Taking advantage of the anomalous Hall effect, we electrically probe low-frequency magnetization fluctuations at room temperature in a thin ferromagnetic Pt/Co/AlO$_x$ layer stack with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. We observe a strong enhancement of the Hall voltage fluctuations within the hysteretic region of the magnetization loop. Analyzing both the temporal evolution of the anomalous Hall voltage and its frequency-dependent noise power density, we identify two types of magnetic noise: abrupt changes in the magnetic domain configuration, evident as Barkhausen-like steps in the Hall voltage time trace, yield a noise power density spectrum scaling with frequency as $1/f^β$ with $β\approx 1.9$. In contrast, quasi-stationary magnetization configurations are connected with a magnetic noise power density with an exponent $β\approx 0.9$. The observation of Barkausen steps and relaxation effects shows that the magnetic system is in a non-stationary state in the hysteresis region, such that the fluctuation-dissipation theorem cannot be expected to hold. However, the time-dependent change in the Hall voltage for constant magnetic field strength resembles the integrated noise power.
We utilize coherent femtosecond extreme ultraviolet (EUV) pulses derived from a free electron laser (FEL) to generate transient periodic magnetization patterns with periods as short as 44 nm. Combining spatially periodic excitation with resonant probing at the dichroic M-edge of cobalt allows us to create and probe transient gratings of electronic and magnetic excitations in a CoGd alloy. In a demagnetized sample, we observe an electronic excitation with 50 fs rise time close to the FEL pulse duration and ~0.5 ps decay time within the range for the electron-phonon relaxation in metals. When th…
Magnetization reversal mechanism of double-helix nanowires probed by dark-field magneto-optical Kerr effect
TU Wien（维也纳工业大学）；University of Loughborough（拉夫堡大学）；Instituto de Nanociencia y Materiales de Aragón, CSIC-Universidad de Zaragoza（阿拉贡纳米科学与材料研究所，西班牙科学理事会-萨拉戈萨大学）；Synchrotron SOLEIL（SOLEIL同步辐射中心）；University of Vienna（维也纳大学）；Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids（马克斯·普朗克固体化学物理研究所）；Hiroshima University（广岛大学）
When a flow of electron passes through a paramagnetic layer with strong spin-orbit-coupling such as platinum (Pt), a net spin current is produced via spin Hall effect (SHE). This spin current can exert a torque on the magnetization of an adjacent ferromagnetic layer which can be probed via magnetization dynamic response, e.g. spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance (ST-FMR). Nevertheless, that effect in lower frequency magnetization dynamic regime (MHz) where skin effect occurs in high permeability ferromagnetic conductors namely the magneto-impedance (MI) effect can be fundamentally important whi…
Coherent, self-sustained oscillation of magnetization in spin-torque oscillators (STOs) is a promising source for on-chip, nanoscale generation of microwave magnetic fields. Such fields could be used for local excitation of spin-wave resonances, control of spin qubits, and studies of paramagnetic resonance. However, local characterization of fields emitted by an STO has remained an outstanding challenge. Here, we use the spin of a single nitrogen-vacancy (NV) defect in diamond to probe the magnetic fields generated by an STO in a microbar of ferromagnetic insulator yttrium-iron-garnet (YIG). T…
Origin of the spin Seebeck effect probed by temperature dependent measurements in Gd$_{3}$Fe$_{5}$O$_{12}$
研究了Gd $_{3}$ Fe $_{5}$ O $_{12}$ /Pt杂化结构中自旋Seebeck效应随温度的变化，观察到自旋Seebeck信号随温度的两个符号变化.第一个符号变化发生在280 K附近接近Gd $_{3}$ Fe $_{5}$ O $_{12}$磁补偿点的温度。在那里，自旋Seebeck信号突然改变符号，幅度不变，表明自旋电流主要是由磁性Fe子晶格引起的，它在这个温度下重新定向。第二，更渐进的符号变化发生在65-85 K范围内的Gd亚晶格的有序温度附近，表明Gd磁性亚晶格在较低温度下主导热驱动的自旋电流。这些符号的变化以及自旋Seebeck信号对温度的非单调依赖性表明，磁振子自旋电流不是简单地复制Gd $_{3}$ Fe $_{5}$ O $_{12}$的有效磁化强度。相反，热产生的净自旋电流是由所涉及的三个磁性子晶格的复杂相互作用引起的。
Nanoscale Dipolar Fields in Artificial Spin Ice Probed by Scanning NV Magnetometry
RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau, Department of Physics and State Research Center OPTIMAS（凯泽斯劳滕-兰道工业大学物理系及OPTIMAS州立研究中心）；Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science, Binghamton University（宾汉姆顿大学托马斯·J·沃森工程与应用科学学院）；Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Delaware（特拉华大学物理与天文学系）
Strongly out-of-equilibrium regimes in magnetic nanostructures exhibit novel properties, linked to the nonlinear nature of magnetization dynamics, which are of great fundamental and practical interest. Here, we demonstrate that field-driven ferromagnetic resonance can occur with substantial spatial coherency at unprecedented large angle of magnetization precessions, which is normally prevented by the onset of spin-wave instabilities and magnetization turbulent dynamics. Our results show that this limitation can be overcome in nanomagnets, where the geometric confinement drastically reduces the…
Noncollinear chiral spin textures in ferromagnetic multilayers are at the forefront of recent research in nano-magnetism with the promise for fast and energy-efficient devices. The recently demonstrated possibilities to stabilize such chiral structures in synthetic antiferromagnets (SAF) has raised interests as they are immune to dipolar field, hence favoring the stabilization of ultra small textures, improve mobility and avoid the transverse deflections of moving skyrmions limiting the efficiency in some foreseen applications. However, such systems with zero net magnetization are hence diffic…
Cu$_2$OSeO$_3$ is an insulating skyrmion-host material with a magnetoelectric coupling giving rise to an electric polarization with a characteristic dependence on the magnetic field $\vec H$. We report magnetic force microscopy imaging of the helical real-space spin structure on the surface of a bulk single crystal of Cu$_2$OSeO$_3$. In the presence of a magnetic field, the helimagnetic order in general reorients and acquires a homogeneous component of the magnetization, resulting in a conical arrangement at larger fields. We investigate this reorientation process at a temperature of 10~K for …
Laser induced modulation of the magnetization dynamics occurring over various time-scales have been unified here for a Ni80Fe20 thin film excited by amplified femtosecond laser pulses. The weak correlation between demagnetization time and pump fluence with substantial enhancement in remagnetization time is demonstrated using three-temperature model considering the temperatures of electron, spin and lattice. The picosecond magnetization dynamics is modeled using the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation. With increasing pump fluence the Gilbert damping parameter shows significant enhancement from it…
