Formation of quasi-solitons in transverse confined ferromagnetic film media

Abstract

The formation of quasi-2D spin-wave waveforms in longitudinally magnetized stripes of ferrimagnetic film was observed by using time- and space-resolved Brillouin light scattering technique. In the linear regime it was found that the confinement decreases the amplitude of dynamic magnetization near the lateral stripe edges. Thus, the so-called effective dipolar pinning of dynamic magnetization takes place at the edges. In the nonlinear regime a new stable spin wave packet propagating along a waveguide structure, for which both transversal instability and interaction with the side walls of the waveguide are important was observed. The experiments and a numerical simulation of the pulse evolution show that the shape of the formed waveforms and their behavior are strongly influenced by the confinement.

First appeared in Prof. B. Hillebrands' research group Annual Report 2005 (http://www.physik.uni-kl.de/w_hilleb/ann05.html); also presented at Intermag'2006 Conference: M. Kostylev, A.A. Serga, and B. Hillebrands, Digests of International Magnetic Conference, May 8-12, 2006, San Diego, USA, FV03 (2006)