1. Disorder-induced microscopic magnetic memory.
- Author
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Pierce, M S, Buechler, C R, Sorensen, L B, Turner, J J, Kevan, S D, Jagla, E A, Deutsch, J M, Mai, T, Narayan, O, Davies, J E, Liu, K, Dunn, J Hunter, Chesnel, K M, Kortright, J B, Hellwig, O, and Fullerton, E E
- Abstract
Using coherent x-ray speckle metrology, we have measured the influence of disorder on major loop return point memory (RPM) and complementary point memory (CPM) for a series of perpendicular anisotropy Co/Pt multilayer films. In the low disorder limit, the domain structures show no memory with field cycling--no RPM and no CPM. With increasing disorder, we observe the onset and the saturation of both the RPM and the CPM. These results provide the first direct ensemble-sensitive experimental study of the effects of varying disorder on microscopic magnetic memory and are compared against the predictions of existing theories.
- Published
- 2005