Vol Page/Article: Your access to Phys. Rev. B is provided through the subscription of Central Research Institute. What is this? [ Previous / Next Abstract | Issue Table of Contents | Bottom of Page <#bottom> ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics -1(II)) Phys. Rev. B 71, 020403(R) (2005) (4 pages) view MyArticles What is this? Full Text: [ PDF (262 kB) GZipped PS Order Document ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Correlated magnetic reversal in periodic stripe patterns Katharina Theis-Bröhl , Boris P. Toperverg , Vincent Leiner , Andreas Westphalen , and Hartmut Zabel Department of Physics, Ruhr-University Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany Jeffrey McCord Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden, Institute for Metallic Materials, Helmholtzstr. 20, D-01169 Dresden, Germany Karsten Rott and Hubert Brückl Department of Physics, University Bielefeld, Universitätsstr. 25, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany (Received 19 November 2004; published 19 January 2005) The magnetization reversal in a periodic magnetic stripe array has been studied with a combination of direct and reciprocal space methods: Kerr microscopy and polarized neutron scattering. Kerr images show that during magnetization reversal over a considerable magnetic-field range a ripple domain state occurs in the stripes with magnetization components perpendicular to the stripes. Quantitative analysis of polarized neutron specular reflection, Bragg diffraction, and off-specular diffuse scattering provides a detailed picture of the mean magnetization direction in the ripple domains as well as longitudinal and transverse fluctuations, and reveals a strong correlation of those components over a number of stripes. ©2005 The American Physical Society URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRB/v71/e020403 doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.71.020403 PACS: 75.75.+a, 61.12.Ha, 75.60.Ej Additional Information ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Full Text: [ PDF (262 kB) GZipped PS Order Document ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ References Citation links [e.g., Phys. Rev. D 40, 2172 (1989)] go to online journal abstracts. Other links (see Reference Information ) are available with your current login. Navigation of links may be more efficient using a second browser window . # M. R. Fitzsimmons, P. Yashar, C. Leighton, I. K. Schuller, J. Nogues, C. F. Majkrzak, and J. A. Dura, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 3986 (2000) . [ISI] # M. Gierlings, M. J. Prandolini, H. Fritzsche, M. Gruyters, and D. Riegel, Phys. Rev. B 65, 092407 (2002) . # S. G. E. te Velthuis, G. P. Felcher, S. Jiang, A. Inomata, C. S. Nelson, A. Berger, and S. D. Bader, Appl. Phys. Lett. 75, 4174 (1999) . [ISI] # W. T. Lee, S. G. E. te Velthuis, G. P. Felcher, F. Klose, T. Gredig, and E. D. Dahlberg, Phys. Rev. B 65, 224417 (2002) . # V. Lauter-Pasyuk, H. J. Lauter, B. P. Toperverg, L. Romashev, and V. Ustinov, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 167203 (2002) . # J. A. Borchers, J. A. Dura, J. Unguris, D. Tulchinsky, M. H. Kelley, C. F. Majkrzak, S. Y. Hsu, R. Loloee, W. P. Pratt, and J. Bass, Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 2796 (1999) . [ISI] # K. Temst, M. J. Van-Bael, and H. Fritzsche, Appl. Phys. Lett. 79, 991 (2001) ; [ISI] H. Fritzsche, K. Temst, M. J. Van-Bael, V. V. Moshchalkov, Y. Bruynseraede, H. Fritzsche, and R. Jonckheere, Appl. Phys. A: Mater. Sci. Process. 74, S1538 (2002) . [Inspec] # K. Theis-Bröhl, T. Schmitte, V. Leiner, H. Zabel, K. Rott, H. Brückl, and J. McCord, Phys. Rev. B 67, 184415 (2003) . # W.-T. Lee, F. Klose, H. Q. Yin, and B. P. Toperverg, Physica B 335, 77 (2003) . [Inspec] # A. Schreyer, R. Siebrecht, U. Englisch, U. Pietsch, and H. Zabel, Physica B 248, 349 (1998) . [Inspec] [ISI] # A. Hubert and R. Schäfer, Magnetic Domains (Springer, Heidelberg, 1998). # S. K. Sinha, E. B. Sirota, S. Garoff, and H. B. Stanley, Phys. Rev. B 38, 2297 (1988) . # B. P. Toperverg, Physica B 297, 160 (2001) ; [Inspec] Appl. Phys. A: Mater. Sci. Process. 74, S1560 (2002) ; [Inspec] B.P. Toperverg, in Polarized Neutron Scattering, Matter and Materials Series Vol. 12, edited by Th. Brückel and W. Schweika (Schriften des Forschungszentrum, Julich, 2002), p. 249. # Mean and net magnetizations are defined in the text below. # The direct beam shows up in the left bottom corners of the intensity maps. The American Physical Society is a member of CrossRef . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Full Text: [ PDF (262 kB) GZipped PS Order Document ] [ Previous / Next Abstract | Issue Table of Contents | Top of Page <#top> ] [ Homepage | Browse Available Volumes | Search | Subscriptions | Contact Information | Online Help | Exit ]