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We explore how thermal fluctuations affect the mechanics of thin amorphous spherical shells. In flat membranes with a shear modulus, thermal fluctuations increase the bending rigidity and reduce the in-plane elastic moduli in a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-01-18 Andrej Kosmrlj , David R. Nelson

Magnetic systems are an exciting realm of study that is being explored on smaller and smaller scales. One extremely interesting magnetic state that has gained momentum in recent years is the skyrmionic state. It is characterized by a vortex…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Patrick Johnson , A K Gangopadhyay , Ramki Kalyanaraman , Zohar Nussinov

Magnetic skyrmions have the potential to provide solutions for low-power, high-density data storage and processing. One of the major challenges in developing skyrmion-based devices is the skyrmions' magnetic stability in confined…

Motivated by solid-solid phase transitions in elastic thin films, we perform a Gamma-convergence analysis for a singularly perturbed energy describing second order phase transitions in a domain of vanishing thickness. Under a two-wells…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-02-29 Bernardo Galvão-Sousa , Vincent Millot

Interfacial Dzyaloshinkii-Moriya interaction (DMI) is a key ingredient in the stabilization of chiral magnetic states in thin films. Its sign and strength often determine crucial properties of magnetic objects, like their topology or how…

An analytical model for the domain wall structure in ultrathin films with perpendicular easy axis and interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, submitted to an arbitrary in-plane magnetic field, is presented. Its solution is simplified…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 Pierre Géhanne , André Thiaville , Stanislas Rohart , Vincent Jeudy

We develop a reduced model for hard-magnetic, thin, linear-elastic shells that can be actuated through an external magnetic field, with geometrically exact strain measures. Assuming a reduced kinematics based on the Kirchhoff-Love…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-06-08 Matteo Pezzulla , Dong Yan , Pedro M. Reis

This article presents theoretical results for the dynamic response of periodically surface-modulated ferromagnetic thin films. For such system, the role of the periodic dipolar field induced by the modulation is addressed by using the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-14 R. A. Gallardo , M. Langer , A. Roldán-Molina , T. Schneider , K. Lenz , J. Lindner , P. Landeros

A generic theory about skyrmion crystal (SkX) formation in chiral magnetic thin films and its fascinating thermodynamic behaviours is presented. A chiral magnetic film can have many metastable states with an arbitrary skyrmion density up to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-15 X. C. Hu , H. T. Wu , X. R. Wang

In the direct approach to continua in reduced space dimensions, a thin shell is described as a mathematical surface in three-dimensional space. An exploratory kinematic study of such surfaces could be very valuable, especially if conducted…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-25 Andre M. Sonnet , Epifanio G. Virga

We study the Landau-Lifshitz model for the energy of multi-scale transition layers -- called "domain walls" -- in soft ferromagnetic films. Domain walls separate domains of constant magnetization vectors $m^\pm \in \mathbb{S}^2$ that differ…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-09-11 Lukas Döring , Radu Ignat , Felix Otto

Skyrmions have attracted significant interest due to their topological spin structures and fascinating physical features. The skyrmion phase arises in materials with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction at interfaces or in volume of…

Charged domain walls are a type of domain walls in thin ferromagnetic films which appear due to global topological constraints. The non-dimensionalized micromagnetic energy for a uniaxial thin ferromagnetic film with in-plane magnetization…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-01 Hans Knüpfer , Wenhui Shi

A theoretical study of the surface energy-loss function of freestanding Pb(111) thin films is presented, starting from the single monolayer case. The calculations are carried applying the linear response theory, with inclusion of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-04-11 X. Zubizarreta , E. V. Chulkov , V. M. Silkin

The stability of magnetic skyrmions has been investigated in the past, but mostly in the absence of thermal fluctuations. However, thermal spin fluctuations modify the magnetic properties (exchange stiffness, Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-06 Ioannis Charalampidis , Joseph Barker

We develop a formalism to extend our previous work on the electromagnetic $\delta$-function plates to a spherical surface. The electric ($\lambda_e$) and magnetic ($\lambda_g$) couplings to the surface are through $\delta$-function…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-08 Prachi Parashar , Kimball A. Milton , K. V. Shajesh , Iver Brevik

Magnetic skyrmions and bubbles, observed in ferromagnetic thin films with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy, are topological solitons which differ by their characteristic size and the balance in the energies at the origin of their…

We study bubble domain wall dynamics using micromagnetic simulations in perpendicularly magnetized ultra-thin films with disorder and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. Disorder is incorporated into the material as grains with randomly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Bhaskarjyoti Sarma , Felipe Garcia-Sanchez , S. Ali Nasseri , Arianna Casiraghi , Gianfranco Durin

We are concerned with the dimension reduction analysis for thin three-dimensional elastic films, prestrained via Riemannian metrics with weak curvatures. For the prestrain inducing the incompatible version of the F\"oppl-von K\'arm\'an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-07 Silvia Jimenez Bolanos , Marta Lewicka

We demonstrate numerically on large spin lattices that one can write skyrmions in a thin magnetic film with a magnetic dipole of a few tens of nanometer in size. Nucleation of non-chiral skyrmions as well as chiral skyrmions formed by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Dmitry A. Garanin , Daniel Capic , Senfu Zhang , Xixiang Zhang , Eugene M. Chudnovsky