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Domain walls in magnetic multilayered systems can exhibit a very complex and fascinating behavior. For example, the magnetization of thin films of hard magnetic materials is in general perpendicular to the thin-film plane, thanks to the…
The zero-temperature dynamics of simple models such as Ising ferromagnets provides, as an alternative to the mean-field situation, interesting examples of dynamical systems with many attractors (absorbing configurations, blocked…
We consider the zero temperature coarsening in the Ising model in two dimensions where the spins interact within the Moore neighbourhood. The Hamiltonian is given by $H = - \sum_{<i,j>}{S_iS_j} - \kappa \sum_{<i,j'>}{S_iS_{j'}}$ where the…
We construct a model of short-range interacting Ising spins on a translationally invariant two-dimensional lattice that mimics a reversible circuit that multiplies or factorizes integers, depending on the choice of boundary conditions. We…
The sliding friction of a dimer moving over a periodic substrate and subjected to an external force is studied in the steady state for arbitrary temperatures within a one-dimensional model. Nonlinear phenomena that emerge include dynamic…
Scaling arguments and precise simulations are used to study the square lattice $\pm J$ Ising spin glass, a prototypical model for glassy systems. Droplet theory predicts, and our numerical results show, entropically-stabilized long range…
The work of this thesis concerns the problem of linear low energy excitations of vector spin glass models. An analytical and numerical study is carried out, considering a fully connected random-field Heisenberg model at zero temperature, a…
We present a study of the model spin-glass LiHo$_{0.5}$Er$_{0.5}$F$_4$ using simultaneous AC susceptibility, magnetization and magnetocaloric effect measurements along with small angle neutron scattering (SANS) at sub-Kelvin temperatures.…
We present a review of dynamics of entanglement in one and two dimensional systems under the effect of external magnetic field and different degrees of anisotropy at zero and finite temperatures. Different techniques for treating the spin…
XY and Heisenberg spins, subjected to strong random fields acting at few points in space with concentration $c_r \ll 1$, are studied numerically on 3d lattices containing over four million sites. Glassy behavior with strong dependence on…
Dynamic behaviour of an isotropic Ashkin-Teller model in the presence of a periodically oscillating magnetic field has been analysed by means of the mean field approximation. The dynamic equation of motion has been constructed with the help…
We consider the continuous time, zero-temperature heat-bath dynamics for the nearest-neighbor Ising model on $Z^2$ with positive magnetic field. For a system of size $L\in N$, we start with initial condition $\sigma$ such that $\sigma_x=-1$…
We report anomalous behavior in a double-layer two dimensional hole gas (2DHG) at even integer filling factors which includes hysteresis in the longitudinal and Hall resistances and a very weak temperature dependence of the resistance…