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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 85, Issue 22, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.85.224420
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- BMBF [05 KS4WE1/6, FKZ 13N10144]
- DFG [FA 314-7/1]
- EU [226716]
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We report on the response of multilayer spin textures to static magnetic fields. Coupled magnetic vortex pairs in trilayer elements (ferromagnetic/nonmagnetic/ferromagnetic) are imaged directly by means of layer-selective magnetic x-ray microscopy. We observe two different circulation configurations with parallel and opposing senses of magnetization rotation at remanence. Upon application of a field, all of the vortex pairs investigated react with a displacement of their cores. For purely dipolar coupled pairs, the individual core displacements are similar to those of an isolated single-layer vortex, but also a noticeable effect of the mutual stray fields is detected. Vortex pairs that are linked by an additional interlayer exchange coupling (IEC), which is either ferromagnetic or antiferromagnetic, mainly exhibit a layer-congruent response. We find that, apart from a possible decoupling at higher fields, these strict IEC vortex pairs can be described by a single-layer model with effective material parameters. This result implies the possibility to design multilayer spin structures with arbitrary effective magnetization.
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