Our work on pattern generation and symbolic dynamics was recently relayed as a news item by the Institut de Physique and Institut de Chimie of CNRS
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Pattern generation and symbolic dynamics in a nanocontact vortex oscillator
Our latest work on chaotic dynamics in nanocontact vortex oscillators has just appeared in Nature Communications.
This represents the fruit of many years of labour, which began with a number of interesting discussions with Sébastien Petit-Watelot at the Institut Jean Lamour (CNRS/Univ Lorraine) in Nancy and Damien Rontani at the Laboratoire Matériaux Optiques, Photonique et Systèmes (CentraleSupélec/Univ Lorraine) in Metz. We had the idea to look at the possible waveform patterns that could be generated by the nanocontact vortex oscillator in its chaotic state. Myoung-Woo Yoo, whilst on his Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellowship with me on this topic, devised a clever pattern filtering algorithm to analyse the experimental time traces, which are quite noisy even at 77 K as a result of the relative low signal to noise ratios in these samples. This technique allowed us to really delve into the different patterns available, which turn out to be quite simple, as shown in the figure above.
Ultimately, we were able to show that the complexity and entropy of the signal can be controlled with the applied current, where the most interesting things occur in the chaotic regime. Basic benchmarks show that the oscillator can be a good random number generator with some interesting symbolic dynamics.
This work has been funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche as part of the CHIPMuNCS project.
Role of nonlinear anisotropic damping in the magnetization dynamics of topological solitons
Reference: J.-V. Kim, Phys. Rev. B 92, 014418 (2015).
By including the Rashba interaction into a model for nonlinear feedback damping, I studied how the dynamics of magnetic solitons, such as domain walls, vortices, and skyrmions, might be affected by additional torques resulting from this damping. This work has just appeared in Physical Review B.
Vortices on the move
Our paper on moving vortices around using multiple nanocontacts has appeared in Nature Nanotechnology! There is an accompanying News & Views piece by Prof. Teruo Ono of Kyoto University.