Papers by ivan yastremsky
Thermodynamic properties, in particular, the temperature dependencies of magnetization of asymmet... more Thermodynamic properties, in particular, the temperature dependencies of magnetization of asymmetrically sandwiched ultrathin cobalt films with perpendicular anisotropy are investigated. The experimental results are described theoretically in the frame of magnon thermodynamics consistently accounting for the finite thickness of the films. The analysis includes both three-dimensional (Bloch's T 3/2 law) and two-dimensional (the 2D Bloch law) theories as limiting cases. By fitting the experimental temperature dependencies of magnetization to the theoretical model, the exchange stiffness parameter is extracted. This approach provides access to the exchange stiffness without the need to know the strength of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in the stack. The exchange stiffness of sub-nm-thick Co films is found to be about three times smaller compared to the case of bulk cobalt. In the temperature range T < 170 ± 30 K the temperature dependencies of magnetization follow the 2D Bloch law. The applicability of Bloch's T 3/2 law and analysis of the Curie temperature (two-dimensional and three-dimensional pictures) to extract the exchange stiffness for sub-nm-thick Co films are tested as well. The closest value of the exchange stiffness to the magnon thermodynamics turned out to be within the analysis of the Curie temperature in the three-dimensional picture.
Physical Review Applied, 2019
Thermodynamic properties, in particular, the temperature dependencies of magnetization of asymmet... more Thermodynamic properties, in particular, the temperature dependencies of magnetization of asymmetrically sandwiched ultrathin cobalt films with perpendicular anisotropy are investigated. The experimental results are described theoretically in the frame of magnon thermodynamics consistently accounting for the finite thickness of the films. The analysis includes both three-dimensional (Bloch's T 3/2 law) and two-dimensional (the 2D Bloch law) theories as limiting cases. By fitting the experimental temperature dependencies of magnetization to the theoretical model, the exchange stiffness parameter is extracted. This approach provides access to the exchange stiffness without the need to know the strength of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in the stack. The exchange stiffness of sub-nm-thick Co films is found to be about three times smaller compared to the case of bulk cobalt. In the temperature range T < 170 ± 30 K the temperature dependencies of magnetization follow the 2D Bloch law. The applicability of Bloch's T 3/2 law and analysis of the Curie temperature (two-dimensional and three-dimensional pictures) to extract the exchange stiffness for sub-nm-thick Co films are tested as well. The closest value of the exchange stiffness to the magnon thermodynamics turned out to be within the analysis of the Curie temperature in the three-dimensional picture.
We study magnon modes in the presence of a vortex in a circular easy-plane ferromagnet. The probl... more We study magnon modes in the presence of a vortex in a circular easy-plane ferromagnet. The problem of vortex-magnon scattering is investigated for partial modes with different values of the azimuthal quantum number m over a wide range of wave numbers. The analysis was done by combining analytical and numerical calculations in the continuum limit with numerical diagonalization of adequately large discrete systems. The general laws governing vortex-magnon interactions are established. We give simple physical explanations of the scattering results: the splitting of doublets for the modes with opposite signs of m, which takes place for the long wavelength limit, is an analogue of the Zeeman splitting in the effective magnetic field of the vortex. A singular behavior for the scattering amplitude, σm ∝ k, takes place as k diverges; it corresponds to the generalized Levinson theorem and can be explained by the singular behavior of the effective magnetic field at the origin.
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