Phenomenological theory of magnetization reversal in nanosystems with competing anisotropies

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2008-05-14

arxiv.org/abs/0805.1984v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

17 pages, 9 figures

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.2996016

The interplay between intrinsic and surface/interface-induced magnetic anisotropies strongly in- fluences magnetization processes in nanomagnetic systems. We develop a micromagnetic theory to describe the field-driven reorientation in nanomagnets with cubic and uniaxial anisotropies. Spin configurations in competing phases and parameters of accompanying multidomain states are calculated as functions of the applied field and the magnetic anisotropies. The constructed magnetic phase diagrams allow to classify different types of the magnetization reversal and to provide detailed analysis of the switching processes in magnetic nanostructures. The calculated magnetization profiles of isolated domain walls show that the equilibrium parameters of such walls are extremely sensitive to applied magnetic field and values of the competing anisotropies and can vary in a broad range. For nanolayers with perpendicular anisotropy the geometrical parameters of stripe domains have been calculated as functions of a bias field. The results are applied to analyse the magnetization processes as observed in various nanosystems with competing anisotropies, mainly, in diluted magnetic semiconductor films (Ga,Mn)As.

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