Disorder-induced magnetic memory: Experiments and theories

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dc.creatorPierce, M. S.
dc.creatorBuechler, C. R.
dc.creatorSorensen, L. B.
dc.creatorKevan, S. D.
dc.creatorJagla, E. A.
dc.creatorDeutsch, J. M.
dc.creatorMai, T.
dc.creatorNarayan, O.
dc.creatorDavies, J. E.
dc.creatorLiu, Kai
dc.creatorZimanyi, G. T.
dc.creatorKatzgraber, H. G.
dc.creatorHellwig, O.
dc.creatorFullerton, E. E.
dc.creatorFischer, P.
dc.creatorKortright, J. B.
dc.date2006-11-21
dc.date2007-01-26
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T08:20:00Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T08:20:00Z
dc.descriptionBeautiful theories of magnetic hysteresis based on random microscopic disorder have been developed over the past ten years. Our goal was to directly compare these theories with precise experiments. We first developed and then applied coherent x-ray speckle metrology to a series of thin multilayer perpendicular magnetic materials. To directly observe the effects of disorder, we deliberately introduced increasing degrees of disorder into our films. We used coherent x-rays to generate highly speckled magnetic scattering patterns. The apparently random arrangement of the speckles is due to the exact configuration of the magnetic domains in the sample. In effect, each speckle pattern acts as a unique fingerprint for the magnetic domain configuration. Small changes in the domain structure change the speckles, and comparison of the different speckle patterns provides a quantitative determination of how much the domain structure has changed. How is the magnetic domain configuration at one point on the major hysteresis loop related to the configurations at the same point on the loop during subsequent cycles? The microscopic return-point memory(RPM) is partial and imperfect in the disordered samples, and completely absent when the disorder was not present. We found the complementary-point memory(CPM) is also partial and imperfect in the disordered samples and completely absent when the disorder was not present. We found that the RPM is always a little larger than the CPM. We also studied the correlations between the domains within a single ascending or descending loop. We developed new theoretical models that do fit our experiments.
dc.description26 pages, 25 figures, Accepted by Physical Review B 01/25/07
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0611542
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0611542
dc.identifierPhys. Rev. B 75, 144406 (2007)
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevB.75.144406
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/134959
dc.subjectMaterials Science
dc.titleDisorder-induced magnetic memory: Experiments and theories
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