Abstract
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 |
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| Article number | 197202 |
| Journal | Physical Review Letters |
| Volume | 123 |
| Issue number | 19 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Nov 6 2019 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2019 American Physical Society.
Funding
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.\u2009K.\u2009R was supported by EPSRC under Grant No. EP/I022562/1.
| Funders | Funder number |
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| University of Kentucky Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering and Center for Advanced Materials | |
| U.S. Department of Energy Oak Ridge National Laboratory U.S. Department of Energy National Science Foundation National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center | |
| Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) | DE-AC02-06CH11357, DE-SC0012704 |
| Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council | EP/I022562/1 |
| U.S. Department of Energy Chinese Academy of Sciences Guangzhou Municipal Science and Technology Project Oak Ridge National Laboratory Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment National Science Foundation National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center National Natural Science Foundation of China | ECCS-1542164 |
| DOE Basic Energy Sciences | DE-SC0016519 |
| National Science Foundation Office of International Science and Engineering | DE-AC02-05CH11231 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Physics and Astronomy