Evolution and stability of a magnetic vortex in a small cylindrical ferromagnetic particle under applied field
- 8 February 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 63 (10) , 100403
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.63.100403
Abstract
The energy of a displaced magnetic vortex in a cylindrical particle made of isotropic ferromagnetic material (magnetic dot) is calculated taking into account the magnetic dipolar and the exchange interactions. Under the simplifying assumption of small dot thickness the closed-form expressions for the dot energy is written in a nonperturbative way as a function of the coordinate of the vortex center. Then, the process of losing the stability of the vortex under the influence of the externally applied magnetic field is considered. The field destabilizing the vortex as well as the field when the vortex energy is equal to the energy of a uniformly magnetized state are calculated and presented as a function of dot geometry. The results (containing no adjustable parameters) are compared to the recent experiment and are in good agreement.Keywords
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