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Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-11-14 Yanan Geng , Nara Lee , Y. J. Choi , S-W. Cheong , Weida Wu

We investigate the influence of domain walls on the vortex dynamics in superconductors with multi-component order parameters. We show that, due to their complex structure domain walls can carry vortices with fractional flux quanta. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Manfred Sigrist , Daniel F. Agterberg

Taking into account the coupling between the position of the wall and an internal degree of freedom, namely its phase $\phi$, we examine, in the rigid wall approximation, the dynamics of a magnetic domain wall subject to a weak pinning…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-29 Vivien Lecomte , Stewart E. Barnes , Jean-Pierre Eckmann , Thierry Giamarchi

We report on the direct observation of spin wave and elastic wave emission from magnetic domain walls in ferromagnetic thin films. Driven by alternating homogeneous magnetic fields the magnetic domain walls act as coherent magnetisation…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-06-08 Rasmus B. Holländer , Cai Müller , Jeffrey McCord

Domain walls are the transition regions between two magnetic domains. These objects have been very relevant during the last decade, not only due to their intrinsic interest in the development of novel spintronics devices but also because of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 Oscar Alejos , Víctor Raposo , Eduardo Martínez

The helical electron states on the surface of topological insulators or elemental Bismuth become unstable toward superconducting pairing formation when coupled to the charge or magnetic fluctuations. The latter gives rise to pairing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-10-23 Hossein Hosseinabadi , Mehdi Kargarian

We study the dynamics of magnetic domain walls in the Peierls potential due to the discreteness of the crystal lattice. The propagation of a narrow domain wall (comparable to the lattice parameter) under the effect of a magnetic field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 F. J. Buijnsters , A. Fasolino , M. I. Katsnelson

The motions of domain walls driven by magnetic field in soft magnetic nanostripes were calculated. The domain walls reveal steady motions in the low fields and oscillations of their internal structure above a critical field. A developed…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-11-26 Konstantin Yu. Guslienko , Jun-Young Lee , Sang-Koog Kim

In superconductors with strong coupling between superconductivity and elasticity manifested in a strong dependence of transition temperature on pressure, there is an additional contribution to inter-vortex interactions due to the strain…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-03-13 Shi-Zeng Lin , Vladimir G. Kogan

We report the direct observation of slow fluctuations of helical antiferromagnetic domains in an ultra-thin holmium film using coherent resonant magnetic x-ray scattering. We observe a gradual increase of the fluctuations in the speckle…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-29 S. Konings , C. Schuessler-Langeheine , H. Ott , E. Weschke , E. Schierle , H. Zabel , J. B. Goedkoop

In this thesis, we consider the dynamics of vortices in the easy plane insulating ferromagnet in two dimensions. In addition to the quasiparticle excitations, here spin waves or magnons, this magnetic system admits a family of vortex…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lara Thompson

Embedded vortices in turbulent wall-bounded flow over a flat plate, generated by a passive rectangular vane-type vortex generator with variable angle $\beta$ to the incoming flow in a low-Reynolds number flow ($Re=2600$ based on the inlet…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-06-18 Clara M. Velte , Martin O. L. Hansen , Valery L. Okulov

Domain walls in antiferromagnets under a spin-polarized current present dynamical behavior that is not observed in ferromagnets, and it is tunable by the current polarization. Precessional dynamics is obtained for perpendicular spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-02 George Theodorou , Stavros Komineas

Vorticity in turbulent flows is often organized into complex geometries that influence the dynamics. We use a relatively novel approach to describe these geometries: that of obtaining segments of vortex lines embedded in the flow. This…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-18 Saumav Kapoor , Rama Govindarajan , Siddhartha Mukherjee

Experimental measurements of domain wall propagation are typically interpreted by comparison to reduced models that ignore both the effects of disorder and the internal dynamics of the domain wall structure. Using micromagnetic simulations,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-27 Hongki Min , Robert D. McMichael , Michael J. Donahue , Jacques Miltat , M. D. Stiles

Competing ground states may lead to topologically constrained excitations such as domain walls or quasiparticles, which govern metastable states and their dynamics. Domain walls and more exotic topological excitations are well studied in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-09 Carl Merrigan , Cristiano Nisoli , Yair Shokef

We explore the dynamics of driven magnetic flux lines in disordered type-II superconductors in the presence of twin boundaries oriented parallel to the direction of the applied magnetic field, using a three-dimensional elastic line model…

We demonstrate a unique prospect for inducing anisotropic vortex pinning and manipulating the directional motion of vortices using the stripe domain patterns of a uniaxial magnetic film in a the superconducting/ferromagnetic hybrid. Our…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Vlasko-Vlasov , U. Welp , G. Karapetrov , V. Novosad , A. Belkin , D. Rosenmann , M. Iavarone , W. -K. Kwok

Spin interactions of magnetic impurities mediated by conduction electrons is one of the most interesting and potentially useful routes to ferromagnetism in condensed matter. In recent years such systems have received renewed attention due…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-01-23 Sahinur Reja , H. A. Fertig , L. Brey

We study a robust topological transport carried by vortices in a thin film of an easy-plane ferromagnetic insulator between two metal contacts. A vortex, which is a nonlocal topological spin texture in two-dimensional magnets, exhibits some…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-10 Ji Zou , Se Kwon Kim , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak