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We derive an equation of motion for the the dynamics of a ferromagnetic domain wall driven by an external magnetic field through a disordered medium and we study the associated depinning transition. The long-range dipolar interactions set…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-30 Pierre Cizeau , Stefano Zapperi , Gianfranco Durin , H. Eugene Stanley

We study classical solutions of the vector O(3) sigma model in (2+1) dimensions, spontaneously broken to O(2)xZ2. The model possesses Skyrmion-type solutions as well as stable domain walls which connect different vacua. We show that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Kudryavtsev , B. Piette , W. J. Zakrzewski

The magnetic domain wall motion driven by a magnetic field is studied in (Ga,Mn)As and (Ga,Mn)(As,P) films of different thicknesses. In the thermally activated creep regime, a kink in the velocity curves and a jump of the roughness exponent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-15 W. Savero Torres , R. Diaz Pardo , S. Bustingorry , A. B. Kolton , A. Lemaître , V. Jeudy

Configurations of vortex-strings stretched between or ending on domain walls were previously found to be 1/4 Bogomol'nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield(BPS) states in N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories in 3+1 dimensions. Among zero modes of string…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-02-18 Minoru Eto , Toshiaki Fujimori , Takayuki Nagashima , Muneto Nitta , Keisuke Ohashi , Norisuke Sakai

Light scalar fields, with double well potentials and direct matter couplings, undergo density driven phase transitions, leading to the formation of domain walls. Such theories could explain dark energy, dark matter or source the nanoHz…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-03 Kate Clements , Benjamin Elder , Lucia Hackermueller , Mark Fromhold , Clare Burrage

Spin wave and magnetic domain wall are two of basic excitations in magnetic systems, and their spatiotemporal interplay encodes rich information of underlying magnetic interactions. In synthetic antiferromagnets, the domain wall acquires an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Jin Lan , Yang Zhang

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Dube , P. C. E. Stamp

We consider a planar gravitating thick domain wall of the $\lambda \phi^4$ theory as a spacetime with finite thickness glued to two vacuum spacetimes on each side of it. Darmois junction conditions written on the boundaries of the thick…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Ghassemi , S. Khakshournia , R. Mansouri

Currently, much interest is drawn to the analysis of optical and matter-wave modes supported by the fractional diffraction in nonlinear media. We predict a new type of such states, in the form of domain walls (DWs) in the two-component…

Optics · Physics 2022-11-23 Shatrughna Kumar , Pengfei Li , Boris A. Malomed

Domain wall fermions (DWF) are a new fermion discretization scheme with greatly improved chiral symmetry. Our final goal is to study the nucleon spin structure through lattice simulation using DWF. In this paper, we present our current…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-08-23 Shoichi Sasaki

In this article we use chiral domain walls to manipulate and trap magnetic skyrmion quasi-particles in chiral magnetic materials such as ultrathin Co/Pt films. The magnetic skyrmions can be orientated such that their interaction with domain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-14 Paul Leask

We experimentally study the structure and dynamics of magnetic domains in synthetic antiferromagnets based on Co/Ru/Co films. Dramatic effects arise from the interaction among the topological defects comprising the dual domain walls in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-30 A. G. Kolesnikov , V. S. Plotnikov , E. V. Pustovalov , A. S. Samardak , L. A. Chebotkevich , A. V. Ognev , Oleg A. Tretiakov

We study the effect of long range dipolar forces on the dynamics and morphology of domain walls in magnetic thin films by numerical simulations of the spin-1 random field Ising model. By studying the size distribution of avalanches of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-14 Adil Mughal , Lasse Laurson , Gianfranco Durin , Stefano Zapperi

We formulate the massive domain wall fermions on anisotropic lattices. For the massive domain wall fermion, we find that the dispersion relation assumes the usual form in the low momentum region when the bare parameters are properly tuned.…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-09-01 Xu Feng , Xin Li , Wei Liu , Chuan Liu

We numerically simulate the formation of $(2+1)$-dimensional baby Skyrmions and $(3+1)$-dimensional $SU(2)$ Skyrmions from domain wall collisions. It has been suggested that Skyrmion, anti-Skyrmion pairs can be produced from the interaction…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-28 Thomas Winyard

Recently, magnetic skyrmion has emerged as an active topic of fundamental study and applications in magnetic materials research. Magnetic skyrmions are vortex-like spin excitations with topological protection and therefore are more robust…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-23 S. Joseph Poon , Chung Ting Ma

Extended numerical simulations enable to ascertain the diffusive behavior at finite temperatures of chiral walls and skyrmions in ultra-thin model Co layers exhibiting symmetric - Heisenberg - as well as antisymmetric -…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Jacques Miltat , Stanislas Rohart , André Thiaville

Magnetic skyrmions are chiral spin structures with non-trivial topology that comprise two-dimensional quasi-particles and are promising information carriers for data storage and processing devices. Skyrmion lattices in magnetic thin films…

The purpose of the research is the construction of the analytical model for description of spin-polarized current-driven ferromagnetic domain wall motion with a skyrmion building block. The dependence of velocity of ferromagnetic domain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-30 O. Gorobets , Yu. Gorobets , I. Tiukavkina , R. Gerasimenko

We explore the magnetic-field-driven motion of domain walls with different chiralities in thin ferromagnetic films made of Pt/Co/Pt, Au/Co/Pt, and Pt/Co/Au. From the analysis of domain wall dynamics, we extract parameters characterizing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-04 P. Géhanne , S. Rohart , A. Thiaville , V. Jeudy