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We present a subcritical fracture growth model, coupled with the elastic redistribution of the acting mechanical stress along rugous rupture fronts. We show the ability of this model to quantitatively reproduce the intermittent dynamics of…

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Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-13 N. A. Taylanov

A domain wall in a ferromagnetic system will move under the action of an external magnetic field. Ultrathin Co layers sandwiched between Pt have been shown to be a suitable experimental realization of a weakly disordered 2D medium in which…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-08-11 P. Politi , P. J. Metaxas , J. -P. Jamet , R. L. Stamps , J. Ferré

We review in these notes some dynamical properties of interfaces in random media submitted to an external force. We focuss in particular to the response to a very small force (so called creep motion) and discuss various theoretical aspects…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Giamarchi , A. B. Kolton , A. Rosso

The motion of driven interfaces in random media at finite temperature $T$ and small external force $F$ is usually described by a linear displacement $h_G(t) \sim V(F,T) t$ at large times, where the velocity vanishes according to the creep…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-11-04 Cecile Monthus , Thomas Garel

Monte Carlo simulations, in which the Schrodinger equation is solved at each Monte Carlo sweep, are employed to assess the influence of magnetization fluctuations,short-range antiferromagnetic interactions, disorder, magnetic polaron…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Kechrakos , N. Papanikolaou , K. N. Trohidou , T. Dietl

Thermal properties of a two-layered composite conductor are modified in case the interface is damaged. The present paper deals with nondestructive evaluation of perturbations of interface thermal conductance due to the presence of defects.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Gabriele Inglese , Raffaele Inglese

We have investigated by Monte-Carlo simulation the phase diagram of a three-dimensional Ising model with nearest-neighbor ferromagnetic interactions and small, but long-range (Coulombic) antiferromagnetic interactions. We have developed an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-02-06 M. Grousson , G. Tarjus , P. Viot

We present Monte Carlo and Langevin micromagnetic calculations to investigate thermal switching of single-domain ferromagnetic particles. For the Monte Carlo study we place particular emphasis on the probability that the magnetization does…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 M. A. Novotny , G. Brown , P. A. Rikvold

Coating two nearby bodies with thin ferromagnetic films one obtains, below the Curie temperature, two interacting sets of magnetic domains. The dynamical properties of the bodies in presence of this domain interaction have never been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-14 Andrea Benassi

We have studied the electric and thermal response of two-dimensional Dirac-fermions in a quantizing magnetic field in the presence of localized disorder. The electric and heat current operators in the presence of magnetic field are derived.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Balázs Dóra , Peter Thalmeier

With Monte Carlo simulations, the nonsteady dynamics properties of a domain wall have been systematically investigated for the thermally activated creep state under an alternating driving field. Taking the driven random-field Ising model in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-07-11 N. J. Zhou , B. Zheng

We investigate a magnetic domain-wall (DW) motion in two dynamic regimes, creep and flow regimes, near the angular momentum compensation temperature (T_A) of ferrimagnet. In the flow regime, the DW speed shows sharp increase at T_A due to…

A perturbed system relaxes towards an equilibrium given by a minimum in the potential energy landscape. This often occurs by thermally activated jumps over metastable states. The corresponding dynamics is named creep and follows Arrhenius'…

We study the temperature dependent magnetic susceptibility of a strained graphene quantum dot by using the determinant quantum Monte Carlo method. Within the Hubbard model on a honeycomb lattice, our unbiased numerical results show that a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-02-13 Shuai Cheng , Jinming Yu , Tianxing Ma , N. M. R. Peres

We propose a model of carrier-mediated ferromagnetism in semiconductors that accounts for the temperature dependence of the carriers. The model permits analysis of the thermodynamic stability of competing magnetic states, opening the door…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-11-09 A. G. Petukhov , Igor Zutic , Steven C. Erwin

We study the creep dynamics of a two-dimensional interface driven through a periodic potential using dynamical renormalization group methods. We find that the nature of weak-drive transport depends qualitatively on whether the temperature…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. M. Ettouhami , Leo Radzihovsky

The properties of interfaces in non-equilibrium situations are studied by constructing a density matrix with a space-dependent temperature. The temperature gradient gives rise to new terms in the equation for the order parameter. Surface…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-28 Michael C. Ogilvie

We have studied magnetic ordering in ferro/antiferromagnetic (F/AF) bilayers using Monte Carlo simulations of classical Heisenberg spins. For both flat and stepped interfaces we observed order in the AF above the Neel temperature, with the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-17 D. P. Landau , Shan-Ho Tsai , Thomas C. Schulthess

We have simulated the classical Heisenberg antiferromagnet on a triangular lattice using a local Monte Carlo algorithm. The behavior of the correlation length $\xi$, the susceptibility at the ordering wavevector $\chi(\bf Q)$, and the spin…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 M. Wintel , H. U. Everts , W. Apel