Spontaneous Magnetic Superdomain Wall Fluctuations in an Artificial Antiferromagnet

X. M. Chen; B. Farmer; J. S. Woods; S. Dhuey; W. Hu; C. Mazzoli; S. B. Wilkins; R. V. Chopdekar; A. Scholl; I. K. Robinson; L. E. De Long; S. Roy; J. T. Hastings

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.197202

Spontaneous Magnetic Superdomain Wall Fluctuations in an Artificial Antiferromagnet

X. M. Chen, B. Farmer, J. S. Woods, S. Dhuey, W. Hu, C. Mazzoli, S. B. Wilkins, R. V. Chopdekar, A. Scholl, I. K. Robinson, L. E. De Long, S. Roy, J. T. Hastings

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Collective dynamics often play an important role in determining the stability of ground states for both naturally occurring materials and metamaterials. We studied the temperature dependent dynamics of antiferromagnetically ordered superdomains in a square artificial spin lattice using soft x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy. We observed an exponential slowing down of superdomain wall motion below the antiferromagnetic onset temperature, similar to the behavior of typical bulk antiferromagnets. Using a continuous time random walk model we show that these superdomain walls undergo low-temperature ballistic and high-temperature diffusive motions.

Original language	English
Article number	197202
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	123
Issue number	19
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.197202
State	Published - Nov 6 2019

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The work is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences under Award No. DE-SC0016519. This research used resources of the Advanced Light Source, which is a DOE Office of Science User Facility under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. This research used resources 23-ID-1 beam line of the National Synchrotron Light Source II, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility operated for the DOE Office of Science by Brookhaven National Laboratory under Contract No. DE-SC0012704. Work at the Molecular Foundry was supported by the Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. Use of the Center for Nanoscale Materials, an Office of Science user facility, was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357. This work was performed in part at the University of Kentucky Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering and Center for Advanced Materials, members of the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI), which is supported by the National Science Foundation (ECCS-1542164). I. K. R was supported by EPSRC under Grant No. EP/I022562/1.

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