Thursday, April 5, 2012

1204.0969 (S. Bustingorry et al.)

Thermal rounding of the depinning transition in ultrathin Pt/Co/Pt films    [PDF]

S. Bustingorry, A. B. Kolton, T. Giamarchi
We perform a scaling analysis of the mean velocity of extended magnetic domain walls driven in ultrathin Pt/Co/Pt ferromagnetic films with perpendicular anisotropy, as a function of the applied external field for different film-thicknesses. We find that the scaling of the experimental data around the thermally rounded depinning transition is consistent with the universal depinning exponents theoretically expected for elastic interfaces described by the one-dimensional quenched Edwards-Wilkinson equation. In particular, values for the depinning exponent $\beta$ and thermal rounding exponent $\psi$ are tested and the present analysis of the experimental data is compatible with $\beta=0.33$ and $\psi=0.2$, in agreement with numerical simulations.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.0969

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