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Magnetic domains and domain wall pinning in two-dimensional ferromagnets revealed by nanoscale imaging

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Pith's one-line read Scanning nitrogen-vacancy magnetometry images magnetic domains in bilayer CrBr3 at the nanoscale, measures a saturation magnetization near 26 $\mu_\mathrm{B}$/nm$^2$, and attributes the coercivity to domain-wall pinning by defects.

desk verdict The first real-space nanoscale domain images in bilayer CrBr3 are the real payoff; the 'pinning-dominated' claim is plausible but over-stated, and the quantitative magnetization needs error bars before I'd trust the number. read the letter →

arxiv 2009.13440 v1 pith:BLXO5KDO submitted 2020-09-28 cond-mat.mtrl-sci cond-mat.mes-hallquant-ph

Qi-Chao Sun , Tiancheng Song , Eric Anderson , Tetyana Shalomayeva , Johaness Förster , Andreas Brunner , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe
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Joachim Gräfe Rainer Stöhr Xiaodong Xu Jörg Wrachtrup
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keywords magneticdomainsdomainwallpinningtwo-dimensionalferromagnetsCrBr3nitrogen-vacancymagnetometrynanoscaleimagingcoercivitymagnetizationreconstruction
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The reading

Two-dimensional magnets are usually studied with optical or electrical probes that average over micrometers and cannot give quantitative magnetization. This paper shows that a single nitrogen-vacancy center in a diamond tip, operating as a scanning magnetometer at cryogenic temperature, can map the stray field of a bilayer CrBr3 flake pixel by pixel and reconstruct its magnetization with nanoscale resolution. The maps resolve magnetic domains thought to exist in CrBr3 but never imaged directly in real space, and they show that domain walls get stuck at defect sites. Following the domain evolution in an applied field, the authors measure a saturation magnetization of about $26\,\mu_\mathrm{B}/\mathrm{nm}^2$ and conclude that defect pinning is the dominant coercivity mechanism. The same imaging approach, the authors argue, can be applied to other two-dimensional magnets at low temperature.

What carries the argument

The central instrument is a single nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center, an atomic-sized spin defect in diamond whose electron-spin resonance frequency shifts with the local magnetic field. The NV center sits in the apex of a diamond cantilever and is scanned over the sample in an atomic force microscope; a pulsed optically detected magnetic resonance sequence reads out the stray field at every pixel. The resulting stray-field map is converted into a magnetization map by a reverse-propagation reconstruction, which assumes strictly out-of-plane magnetization, justified by the external field being far below the roughly 0.44 T in-plane saturation field. Micromagnetic simulations using material parameters from bulk CrBr3 provide a qualitative consistency check of the observed domain structure.

What would settle it

A direct test would be to measure the same sample with the NV center oriented to sense in-plane stray-field components, or to image while applying an in-plane field approaching the roughly 0.44 T in-plane saturation field; a measurable in-plane signal would contradict the out-of-plane-only reconstruction, and its absence would confirm it.

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Core claim

Using a nitrogen-vacancy center in a diamond pillar as a cryogenic scanning magnetometer, the authors map the stray magnetic field of a bilayer CrBr3 sample with roughly 80 nm resolution and reconstruct the out-of-plane magnetization. They observe stable magnetic domains with opposite magnetization directions and domain walls that are pinned at reproducible defect locations. By imaging the domain evolution while sweeping an external field, they obtain a saturation magnetization of about $26\,\mu_\mathrm{B}/\mathrm{nm}^2$, close to the expected 3 $\mu_\mathrm{B}$ per Cr$^{3+}$ ion (about $32\,\mu_\mathrm{B}/\mathrm{nm}^2$ for a bilayer), and an initial magnetization curve whose slow rise below 2-3 mT indicates strong pinning. The hysteresis loop is highly local: one irregular domain flips abruptly near 5 mT and is bordered by several defects, showing that local pinning controls switching. Micromagnetic simulations with bulk CrBr3 parameters reproduce the observed domain pattern but not the hysteresis, which the paper takes as further evidence that pinning, not free domain-wall motion, dominates reversal.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing assumption is that the magnetization is strictly out of plane everywhere, so that an in-plane component, if present, would be invisible to the reconstruction and would bias both the $26\,\mu_\mathrm{B}/\mathrm{nm}^2$ moment and the domain-pinning picture.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Magnetic domain structures in atomically thin CrBr3 can now be studied quantitatively in real space, resolving earlier ambiguity about whether domains appear only in multilayers or already in the monolayer.
  • The measured saturation magnetization of bilayer CrBr3 provides a direct quantitative check of the expected 3 $\mu_\mathrm{B}$ per Cr$^{3+}$ moment at low temperature.
  • Because the initial magnetization curve rises slowly until the field exceeds the pinning threshold, coercivity in this material is controlled by defects rather than by free domain-wall motion.
  • Hysteresis-loop shape should depend on which area of the sample is measured, since local pinning sites dominate switching; this can explain rectangular loops seen in micrometer-scale measurements.
  • The cryogenic scanning NV approach is compatible with other pulsed measurement schemes, so the same tool can probe electron spin resonance, nuclear magnetic resonance, or spin waves in two-dimensional magnets.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If pinning dominates coercivity in CrBr3, then engineering or removing specific defects should directly tune the switching field, suggesting deliberate defect control as a practical lever for 2D magnet devices.
  • The same imaging protocol could be applied to monolayers and thicker flakes of CrBr3 to map how pinning-site density and domain size scale with thickness.
  • A quantitative comparison between the reconstructed $26\,\mu_\mathrm{B}/\mathrm{nm}^2$ and first-principles calculations of the CrBr3 bilayer moment could sharpen the role of spin-orbit coupling and anisotropy in setting the out-of-plane state.
  • Combining the out-of-plane reconstruction with a second NV measurement sensitive to in-plane fields would test whether any in-plane magnetization component is present below the 0.44 T saturation threshold.
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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript reports cryogenic scanning nitrogen-vacancy (NV) magnetometry on an hBN-encapsulated bilayer CrBr3. Pulsed ODMR is used to map the stray magnetic field, and a reverse-propagation protocol is used to reconstruct the out-of-plane magnetization. The images show irregular magnetic domains at 2 mT that evolve under increasing applied field, with domain walls stalling at reproducible spatial positions across thermal cycles. The magnetization histograms yield a saturation magnetization of about 26 μB/nm², stated to be close to the expected 32 μB/nm² for a CrBr3 bilayer. The authors argue that the slow initial magnetization rise and the inability of a defect-free micromagnetic model to reproduce the hysteresis loop demonstrate that defect-induced domain-wall pinning is the dominant coercivity mechanism.

Significance. If the central claims hold, this is a significant advance: it provides quantitative, real-space, nanoscale images of magnetic domains in an atomically thin van der Waals magnet, resolving a question that optical and transport probes could not address. The core imaging result is independent of the fitted simulation parameters, and the reproducible pinning-site positions across thermal cycles are clean, direct evidence that defects influence domain-wall motion. The paper also demonstrates a careful pulsed ODMR protocol that avoids laser-induced artifacts. However, the quantitative claims of a 26 μB/nm² saturation magnetization and of pinning as the dominant coercivity mechanism need stronger support before the paper's conclusions can be taken at face value; the current evidence is partly based on an unmeasured low-field segment and on a micromagnetic model whose exchange constant was tuned to match the experiment.

major comments (4)
  1. [Fig. 3(j) and the 'initial magnetization curve' paragraph] The claim that the initial magnetization is low below 2 mT is not supported by measured data. The text states that the curve is extended to the origin using B-spline interpolation while assuming zero magnetization in the thermally demagnetized sample; no data points below 2 mT are presented. A steep rise in magnetization between 0 and 2 mT is fully compatible with the two anchor points (assumed zero at 0 mT and the measured value at 2 mT). Therefore, the statement that 'the average permeability is very low under field of 2 mT' is an artifact of the interpolation rather than an observed property of the sample, and it cannot be used as evidence for a pinning-dominated initial magnetization. Please provide measurements at fields below 2 mT, or substantially soften the claim.
  2. [Methods: Micromagnetic simulation, and the Conclusion] The micromagnetic simulation is invoked in a logically circular way to 'verify' the pinning-dominated reversal. The Methods state that Aex was varied and that Aex = 3×10^-13 J/m gave the closest match to the experiment, so the simulated domain structure is a postdiction rather than an independent check. In addition, the simulation omits structural defects and pinning, and the text acknowledges that the hysteresis loop could not be reproduced. A model that does not include pinning failing to reproduce a hysteresis loop is the expected result, not independent evidence that pinning is the dominant mechanism; at most it rules out a defect-free, uniform model. Please rephrase the verification claim and, if possible, test a simulation that explicitly contains pinning sites.
  3. [Fig. 2(d,e) and the 'saturation magnetization' paragraph] The quantitative saturation-magnetization claim lacks uncertainty quantification. The histograms in Fig. 2(d,e) are presented without error bars, and the extracted value of about 26 μB/nm² is roughly 19% below the expected 32 μB/nm² for a CrBr3 bilayer, with no discussion of the discrepancy. The reconstruction depends on the assumed out-of-plane magnetization direction, the neglected domain-wall thickness, the NV-sample distance, and the truncation of the reverse-propagation procedure. Please provide a sensitivity analysis, propagate measurement noise into the histogram peak positions, and state the resulting uncertainty on the 26 μB/nm² value.
  4. [Conclusion and Figs. 3-4] The direct images demonstrate that domain walls are pinned at specific, reproducible positions, but they do not, by themselves, establish that pinning is the dominant coercivity mechanism. Coercivity could also be influenced by nucleation fields, wall-energy variations, or the details of the local demagnetizing field. The 'dominant' conclusion currently rests on the unmeasured low-field segment and on the simulation's failure to reproduce the loop. A quantitative comparison—for example, a measured pinning-field distribution, a comparison of domain-wall velocity versus field, or an explicit estimate of the pinning energy relative to the Zeeman energy—would be needed to support the dominance claim. Until then, the conclusion should be limited to the statement that pinning is observed and contributes significantly to domain-wall motion.
minor comments (6)
  1. [Introduction] There is a typo in the introductory paragraph: 'cyrogenic' should be 'cryogenic'.
  2. [Supplementary Information references] The main text repeatedly refers to the Supplementary Information for the reconstruction protocol, additional NV-axis orientations, other sample data, and the full set of magnetization images, but the Supplementary Information is not included with the arXiv submission. It should be provided with the revision.
  3. [Fig. 3(j) and Eq. for M/Msat] The definition of M/Msat = (N+ − N−)/(N+ + N−) should be stated in the Methods, including the threshold of 10 μB/nm² used to define 'evident positive and negative magnetization'. The sensitivity of the extracted curve to this threshold should be reported.
  4. [Fig. 3(j) caption] The phrase 'the blue bars are the ratios of magnetization to external magnetic field' would be clearer as 'the blue bars show the magnetization divided by the external field magnitude'; this quantity is better described as a field-dependent susceptibility-like ratio rather than a 'permeability'.
  5. [Methods: Micromagnetic simulation] The procedure for choosing Aex should be described quantitatively: how many values in the range 10^-12 to 10^-14 J/m were tested, and what metric was used to determine that Aex = 3×10^-13 J/m 'resulted in the closest match' to the experiment.
  6. [Fig. 4(j) caption] The dashed curve in Fig. 4(j) is described as an 'extension to demagnetized and saturated states', but the caption should specify exactly which regions are interpolated and which are measured; no data points are shown near the coercive field, so the near-rectangular shape of the loop is not directly resolved.

Circularity Check

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Micromagnetic 'verification' is partly circular: Aex was tuned to match the domain images it is then used to confirm; the direct NV imaging remains independent.

  1. fitted input called prediction [Methods, Micromagnetic simulation; also invoked in the concluding paragraph as 'To verify the observations...']
    "This simulation assumed Aex = 3× 10−13 J/m, which resulted in the closest match for the experiment. The simulation shows a domain structure that is qualitatively very similar to the experimental observations, which are further supported by this result."

    The exchange stiffness Aex is not determined independently: the Methods first assign a broad estimated range (10^-12 to 10^-14 J/m) and then select the value that gives the closest match to the experimentally observed domain structure. That same simulation is then presented as verification of the observations. The agreement is therefore the outcome of a parameter search against the target it is claimed to confirm, not an independent prediction. The conclusion that the simulation 'further supports' the observations is partly circular because the match was optimized by construction. This does not affect the independence of the direct NV imaging, which does not rely on Aex.

full rationale

The central results—stray-field imaging, reconstructed magnetization of about 26 μB/nm², and reproducible domain-wall pinning at defects—are derived directly from measured ODMR data via an established reverse-propagation reconstruction whose assumptions (out-of-plane magnetization, negligible wall thickness) are stated and externally justified, not fitted to the output. The reconstructed saturation value is compared with, not derived from, the literature value of about 32 μB/nm². The only step that reduces partly to its own input is the micromagnetic 'verification': Methods states that Aex was first given a broad range and then set to 3×10^-13 J/m 'which resulted in the closest match for the experiment', and the same simulation is then said to show a domain structure 'qualitatively very similar' to the observations and to support them. Because the parameter was selected by matching the target domain structure, the agreement is an optimization result, not an independent prediction. This does not make the imaging circular, but it weakens the claim of independent simulation verification. The additional argument that failure of the no-pinning simulation to reproduce the hysteresis loop 'supports' pinning dominance is logically weak rather than circular: a model that omits pinning failing to reproduce a pinning-shaped loop is consistent with pinning but does not prove it. Score 4 reflects partial circularity in a supporting verification while the central measurement remains self-contained.

Assumptions & free parameters 2 free parameters · 3 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central measurement relies on standard NV magnetometry and Fourier-based reconstruction. The free parameters appear in the auxiliary micromagnetic simulation and in the analysis threshold, not in the raw measurement itself. The most important assumptions are the out-of-plane magnetization direction and the neglect of domain wall thickness, both of which enter the quantitative magnetization extraction.

free parameters (2)
  • Aex (exchange stiffness) = 3×10^-13 J/m
    Chosen in the micromagnetic simulation to give the closest match to the experimentally observed domain structure; the paper notes it was initially estimated in the 10^-12 to 10^-14 J/m range.
  • Magnetization pixel threshold = 10 μB/nm²
    Used to classify pixels as positive or negative magnetization when computing M/Msat from images; the threshold is chosen from the histogram in Fig.2(e) without an a priori rule.
assumptions (3)
  • domain assumption Magnetization is strictly out-of-plane in the reconstruction
    The paper states this assumption based on the in-plane field component being much lower than the critical in-plane poling field of 0.44 T. If false, reconstructed magnetization magnitudes would be wrong.
  • domain assumption Domain wall thickness is neglected in the reconstruction
    The reverse-propagation protocol treats domain walls as atomically sharp; finite wall width would affect the stray field map and the reconstructed magnetization.
  • domain assumption Thermally demagnetized sample has zero net magnetization
    The initial magnetization curve is extended to the origin using B-spline interpolation, assuming zero magnetization after heating to 45 K and cooling in zero field.

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abstract

Magnetic-domain structure and dynamics play an important role in understanding and controlling the magnetic properties of two-dimensional magnets, which are of interest to both fundamental studies and applications[1-5]. However, the probe methods based on the spin-dependent optical permeability[1,2,6] and electrical conductivity[7-10] can neither provide quantitative information of the magnetization nor achieve nanoscale spatial resolution. These capabilities are essential to image and understand the rich properties of magnetic domains. Here, we employ cryogenic scanning magnetometry using a single-electron spin of a nitrogen-vacancy center in a diamond probe to unambiguously prove the existence of magnetic domains and study their dynamics in atomically thin CrBr$_3$. The high spatial resolution of this technique enables imaging of magnetic domains and allows to resolve domain walls pinned by defects. By controlling the magnetic domain evolution as a function of magnetic field, we find that the pinning effect is a dominant coercivity mechanism with a saturation magnetization of about 26~$\mu_B$/nm$^2$ for bilayer CrBr$_3$. The magnetic-domain structure and pinning-effect dominated domain reversal process are verified by micromagnetic simulation. Our work highlights scanning nitrogen-vacancy center magnetometry as a quantitative probe to explore two-dimensional magnetism at the nanoscale.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. Cryogenic scanning magnetometry with a single NV center in the diamond tip. a, Schematic of the experiment. The stray magnetic field of the CrBr3 bilayer is measured using a single NV center in a diamond probe attached to the tuning fork of the AFM. The system is placed in a liquid Helium bath cryostat to maintain a temperature below 5 K during the measurement. b and c, A typical topography image of the measured are… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Magnetic domains and saturation magnetization. a, Stray magnetic field and b, the reconstructed magnetization of a CrBr3 bilayer under an external field of 2 mT along the NV axis. c, Magnetization image at external magnetic field of 11 mT. The dashed boxes in b and c denote the common sample area in the two images. Scale bar is 1 µm for all images. d and e, Histograms of the magnetization values in images b and c, r… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Magnetic domain evolution upon increasing the external magnetic field. a-g, Magnetization images taken successively at external magnetic fields of 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5, 4, 5, and 6 mT along the NV axis, respectively. The sample is thermally demagnetized by heating to 45 K and then cooling down under zero field. h (i), Magnetization image of the sample area indicated by the dashed box in e (g) during another thermal cycle … view at source ↗
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Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Magnetic hysteresis loop. a, Magnetic domains at 2 mT external magnetic field along the NV axis after being thermally demagnetized and cooled down under zero field. The dashed box denotes the area #1 used to analyze the hysteresis loop. b-i, Representative magnetizatio…

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