Reliable control of magnetic vortex chirality in asymmetrically optimized magnetic nanodisk

作者:Zhang, Huanhuan; Yu, Hai; Zhang, Xue-Feng; Yang, Xiao-Xue; Shim, Je-Ho; Ma, Xiao-Ping*; Piao, Hong-Guang*
来源:Current Applied Physics, 2022, 43: 72-77.
DOI:10.1016/j.cap.2022.08.013

摘要

Magnetic vortex has attracted attention in the field of information storage because their topological spin structures with chiral bistable states. If the vortex core polarity and vortex circulation sense can be controlled simultaneously in a nanodisk, which will be more beneficial to realize the multi-bit ultrahigh density storage. In this paper, a reliable control scheme for magnetic vortex chirality is proposed by optimizing the structure of PacMan-like nanodisk. The results show that the polarity and circulation of the vortex can be controlled simultaneously by changing the direction of the global magnetic field, and even the chiral states of the vortex can be determined by detecting the stray field distribution on the surface of the nanodisk. The optimized Pac-Man-like nanodisk provide an experimental method for the control and detection of magnetic vortex chirality, which will be beneficial to the realization of multi-bit magnetic storage or magnetic logic technology in the future.