title: Imprinting vortices into antiferromagnets.
abstract: The effect of imprinting symmetric and displaced vortex structures into an antiferromagnetic material is investigated in micron-sized disks consisting of exchange coupled ferromagnetic-antiferromagnetic bilayers. The imprint of displaced vortices manifests itself by the occurrence of a new type of asymmetric hysteresis loops characterized by curved, reversible, central sections with nonzero remanent magnetization. Such an imprint is achieved by cooling the disks through the blocking temperature of the system in small fields. Micromagnetic simulations reveal that asymmetric vortexlike loops naturally result from the competition between the different energies involved in the system.
authors.affiliation: Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA) and Departament de Física, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain. jordi.sort@uab.es
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sort
authors.forename: K S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Buchanan
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Novosad
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hoffmann
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Salazar-Alvarez
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bollero
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Baró
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Dieny
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Nogués