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- Title
Dynamic control of magnetic nanowires by light-induced domain-wall kickoffs.
- Authors
Heintze, Eric; El Hallak, Fadi; Clauß, Conrad; Rettori, Angelo; Pini, Maria Gloria; Totti, Federico; Dressel, Martin; Bogani, Lapo
- Abstract
Controlling the speed at which systems evolve is a challenge shared by all disciplines, and otherwise unrelated areas use common theoretical frameworks towards this goal. A particularly widespread model is Glauber dynamics, which describes the time evolution of the Ising model and can be applied to any binary system. Here we show, using molecular nanowires under irradiation, that Glauber dynamics can be controlled by a novel domain-wall kickoff mechanism. In contrast to known processes, the kickoff has unambiguous fingerprints, slowing down the spin-flip attempt rate by several orders of magnitude, and following a scaling law. The required irradiance is very low, a substantial improvement over present methods of magneto-optical switching. These results provide a new way to control and study stochastic dynamic processes. Being general for Glauber dynamics, they can be extended to different kinds of magnetic nanowires and to numerous fields, ranging from social evolution to neural networks and chemical reactivity.
- Subjects
SWITCHING systems (Telecommunication); NANOWIRES; ISING model; BINARY number system; IRRADIATION; HUMAN fingerprints; SOCIAL evolution
- Publication
Nature Materials, 2013, Vol 12, Issue 3, p202
- ISSN
1476-1122
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/nmat3498