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Pavel Bessarab - Guest Professor
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School of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Pavel Bessarab
Íslenska
Guest Professor
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Utan H.Í.
Phone
5254701
Email
bessarab [at] hi.is
Unit
Faculty of Physical Sciences
Website
https://sites.google.com/view/pavelbessarab
Published Work
Pavel Bessarab - published work
Curriculum Vitae
Pavel Bessarab - Curriculum Vitae
ORCID site
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3351-7172
Research portal – Pavel Bessarab
Education
2013
,
PhD
,
St. Petersburg State University
,
Physics
2010
,
MSc
,
University of Iceland
,
Chemistry
2010
,
MSc
,
St. Petersburg State University
,
Physics
2007
,
BSc
,
St. Petersburg State University
,
Physics
Professional Experience
2016 -
,
Research assistant professor,
Science Institute, University of Iceland
2014 -
2016,
Post-doctoral researcher,
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
2013 -
2014,
Post-doctoral researcher,
Science Institute, University of Iceland
Published works
2024
Enhancing thermal stability of optimal magnetization reversal in nanoparticles
Physical Review B
All-optical control of skyrmion configuration in CrI$$_3$$ monolayer
Scientific Reports
2023
All-optical magnetization control in CrI3 monolayers: A microscopic theory
Physical Review B
Reduction of energy cost of magnetization switching in a biaxial nanoparticle by use of internal dynamics
Physical Review B
Metaheuristic conditional neural network for harvesting skyrmionic metastable states
Physical Review Research
Interaction of excitons with magnetic topological defects in 2D magnetic monolayers: localization and anomalous Hall effect
2D Materials
Lifetime of coexisting sub-10 nm zero-field skyrmions and antiskyrmions
npj Quantum Materials
2022
Optimal protocol for spin-orbit torque switching of a perpendicular nanomagnet
Physical Review B
Atomistic spin simulations of electric-field-assisted nucleation and annihilation of magnetic skyrmions in Pd/Fe/Ir(111)
Physical Review B
Effects of interlayer exchange on collapse mechanisms and stability of magnetic skyrmions
Physical Review B
Thermal generation of droplet soliton in chiral magnet
Physical Review B
Simulations of the Minimum Frequencies of Ionospheric Modes for Radio Communication Forecast
Radiophysics and Quantum Electronics
2021
Simulations of the Minimum Frequencies of Ionospheric Modes for Radio Communication Forecast
Izvestiya vysshikh uchebnykh zavedenii. Radiofizika
Optimal Control of Magnetization Reversal in a Monodomain Particle by Means of Applied Magnetic Field
Physical Review Letters
Experimental identification of two distinct skyrmion collapse mechanisms
Nature Physics
2020
Fully self-consistent calculations of magnetic structure within non-collinear Alexander-Anderson model
Nanosystems: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics
Magnetic skyrmion annihilation by quantum mechanical tunneling
New Journal of Physics
Generalized Force Approach to Point-to-Point Ionospheric Ray Tracing and Systematic Identification of High and Low Rays
IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
Toward room-temperature nanoscale skyrmions in ultrathin films
npj Computational Materials
Mechanisms of energy-efficient magnetization switching in a bistable nanowire
Nanosystems: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics
2019
Skyrmion lifetime in ultrathin films
Physical Review B
Stability and lifetime of antiferromagnetic skyrmions
Physical Review B
Author Correction: Enhanced skyrmion stability due to exchange frustration (Scientific Reports, (2017), 7, 1, (12299), 10.1038/s41598-017-12525-x)
Scientific Reports
2018
Duplication, Collapse, and Escape of Magnetic Skyrmions Revealed Using a Systematic Saddle Point Search Method
Physical Review Letters
First-principles prediction of sub-10-nm skyrmions in Pd/Fe bilayers on Rh(111)
Physical Review B
Energy surface and lifetime of magnetic skyrmions
Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
Models of the energy landscape for an element of shakti spin ice
Nanosystems: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics
Identification of Low and High Ionospheric Rays by a Direct Variational Method
2018 2nd URSI Atlantic Radio Science Meeting, AT-RASC 2018
Corrigendum to “Application of the nudged elastic band method to the point-to-point radio wave ray tracing in IRI modeled ionosphere” [Adv. in Space Res. 60 (2017) 491–497] (S0273117716306883) (10.1016/j.asr.2016.12.003))
Advances in Space Research
Lifetime of racetrack skyrmions
Scientific Reports
Development of Improved Ionospheric Empirical Model and Software for HF Ray Tracing
2018 2nd URSI Atlantic Radio Science Meeting, AT-RASC 2018
First-principles prediction of sub-10-nm skyrmions in Pd/Fe bilayers on Rh(111)
Physical Review B
The effect of confinement and defects on the thermal stability of skyrmions
Physica B: Condensed Matter
Interplay between size and stability of magnetic skyrmions
Nanosystems: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics
2017
Comment on “Path to collapse for an isolated Néel skyrmion”
Physical Review B
Enhanced skyrmion stability due to exchange frustration
Scientific Reports
Comment on "path to collapse for an isolated Néel skyrmion
Physical Review B
Theory of noncollinear interactions beyond Heisenberg exchange: Applications to bcc Fe
Physical Review B
Magnetic exchange force microscopy: Theoretical analysis of induced magnetization reversals
Nanoscale
Microscopic theory for coupled atomistic magnetization and lattice dynamics
Physical Review Materials
Application of the nudged elastic band method to the point-to-point radio wave ray tracing in IRI modeled ionosphere
Advances in Space Research
Instantons describing tunneling between magnetic states at finite temperature
Nanosystems: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics
Microscopic theory for coupled atomistic magnetization and lattice dynamics
Physical Review Materials
Calculations of the onset temperature for tunneling in multispin systems
Nanosystems: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics
2016
Method of Transverse Displacements Formulation for Calculating the HF Radio Wave Propagation Paths. Statement of the Problem and Preliminary Results
Radiophysics and Quantum Electronics
Qualitative insight and quantitative analysis of the effect of temperature on the coercivity of a magnetic system
AIP Advances
Tip-surface interaction and rate of magnetic transitions
Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Spin relaxation signature of colossal magnetic anisotropy in platinum atomic chains
Scientific Reports
Classical to quantum mechanical tunneling mechanism crossover in thermal transitions between magnetic states
Faraday Discussions
Crossover temperature for quantum tunnelling in spin systems
Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Investigation of optical path functional for high and low ionospheric radio rays
2016 URSI Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference, URSI AP-RASC 2016
Energy surface and minimum energy paths for Fréedericksz transitions in bistable cholesteric liquid crystals
Physical Review E
2015
Method for finding mechanism and activation energy of magnetic transitions, applied to skyrmion and antivortex annihilation
Computer Physics Communications
Testing the method of transverse displacements for calculating paths of the HF radio wave propagation in three dimensional inhomogeneous media
2015 1st URSI Atlantic Radio Science Conference, URSI AT-RASC 2015
2014
Calculations of magnetic states and minimum energy paths of transitions using a noncollinear extension of the Alexander-Anderson model and a magnetic force theorem
Physical Review B
2013
Effect of hydrogen adsorption on the magnetic properties of a surface nanocluster of iron
Physical Review B
Noncollinear magnetic ordering in a magnetic dimer supported on a metallic substrate
Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Physics
Effect of hydrogen adsorption on the magnetic properties of a surface nanocluster of iron
Physical Review B
Size and Shape Dependence of Thermal Spin Transitions in Nanoislands
Physical Review Letters
Potential Energy Surfaces and Rates of Spin Transitions
Zeitschrift Fur Physikalische Chemie-International Journal of Research in Physical Chemistry & Chemical Physics
Noncollinear magnetic ordering in a magnetic dimer supported on a metallic substrate
Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Physics
Size and Shape Dependence of Thermal Spin Transitions in Nanoislands
Physical Review Letters
2012
Harmonic transition-state theory of thermal spin transitions
Physical Review B
Harmonic transition-state theory of thermal spin transitions
Physical Review B
2010
Vortices and domain walls: 'wormholes' in unconventional superconductors
International Conference on Magnetism (Icm 2009)
2009
Layer-heterogeneous magnetic states in metallic nanosystems
Physics of the Solid State
Layer-Heterogeneous Magnetic States in Metallic Nanosystems
Physics of the Solid State
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Green's function methods
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