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@ARTICLE{Holl:888590,
author = {Holl, Christian and Knol, Marvin and Pratzer, Marco and
Chico, Jonathan and Fernandes, Imara Lima and Lounis, Samir
and Morgenstern, Markus},
title = {{P}robing the pinning strength of magnetic vortex cores
with sub-nanometer resolution},
journal = {Nature Communications},
volume = {11},
number = {1},
issn = {2041-1723},
address = {[London]},
publisher = {Nature Publishing Group UK},
reportid = {FZJ-2020-05046},
pages = {2833},
year = {2020},
abstract = {Understanding interactions of magnetic textures with
defects is crucial for applications such as racetrack
memories or microwave generators. Such interactions appear
on the few nanometer scale, where imaging has not yet been
achieved with controlled external forces. Here, we establish
a method determining such interactions via spin-polarized
scanning tunneling microscopy in three-dimensional magnetic
fields. We track a magnetic vortex core, pushed by the
forces of the in-plane fields, and discover that the core (~
104 Fe-atoms) gets successively pinned close to single
atomic-scale defects. Reproducing the core path along
several defects via parameter fit, we deduce the pinning
potential as a mexican hat with short-range repulsive and
long-range attractive part. The approach to deduce defect
induced pinning potentials on the sub-nanometer scale is
transferable to other non-collinear spin textures,
eventually enabling an atomic scale design of defect
configurations for guiding and reliable read-out in
race-track type devices.},
cin = {IAS-1 / PGI-1 / JARA-FIT / JARA-HPC},
ddc = {500},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IAS-1-20090406 / I:(DE-Juel1)PGI-1-20110106 /
$I:(DE-82)080009_20140620$ / $I:(DE-82)080012_20140620$},
pnm = {142 - Controlling Spin-Based Phenomena (POF3-142) /
First-principles investigation of single magnetic
nano-skyrmions $(jias17_20190501)$ / First-principles
investigation of single magnetic nano-skyrmions
$(jara0189_20190501)$},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-142 / $G:(DE-Juel1)jias17_20190501$ /
$G:(DE-Juel1)jara0189_20190501$},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:32504062},
UT = {WOS:000540308600001},
doi = {10.1038/s41467-020-16701-y},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/888590},
}