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Domain Wall Motion in the Presence of Nuclear Spins

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We investigate the motion of a domain wall in the presence of a dynamical hyperfine field. At temperature T high compared to the hyperfine coupling, the nuclear spins create a spatially random potential landscape, with dynamics dictated by the nuclear relaxation time T2T_2. The distribution of the domain wall relaxation times (both in the thermal and quantum regimes) can show a long tail, characteristic of stochastic processes where rare events are important. Here, these are due to occasional strong fluctuations in the nuclear spin polarisation.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9908423,
  title  = {Domain Wall Motion in the Presence of Nuclear Spins},
  author = {M. Dube and P. C. E. Stamp},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9908423},
  year   = {2007}
}

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6 pages, Latex