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Barkhausen avalanches in anisotropic ferromagnets with $180^\circ$ domain walls

Statistical Mechanics 2009-10-31 v2 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Abstract

We show that Barkhausen noise in two-dimensional disordered ferromagnets with extended domain walls is characterized by the avalanche size exponent τs=1.54\tau_s =1.54 at low disorder. With increasing disorder the characteristic domain size is reduced relative to the system size due to nucleation of new domains and a dynamic phase transition occurs to the scaling behavior with τs=1.30\tau_s=1.30. The exponents decrease at finite driving rate. The results agree with recently observed behavior in amorphous Metglas and Fe-Co-B ribbons when the applied anisotropic stress is varied.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9903090,
  title  = {Barkhausen avalanches in anisotropic ferromagnets with $180^\circ$ domain walls},
  author = {Bosiljka Tadic and Ulrich Nowak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9903090},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Changes in the text and references, To appear in Phys. Rev. E