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We report on current induced domain wall propagation in a patterned GaMnAs microwire with perpendicular magnetization. An unexpected slowing down of the propagation velocity has been found when the moving domain wall extends over only half…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Nicolas Vernier , Jean-Paul Adam , Andre Thiaville , Vincent Jeudy , Aristide Lemaitre , Jacques Ferré , Giancarlo Faini

Recent experiments have illuminated a remarkable growth mechanism of rod-shaped bacteria: proteins associated with cell wall extension move at constant velocity in circles oriented approximately along the cell circumference (Garner et al.,…

Biological Physics · Physics 2013-05-15 Ariel Amir , David R. Nelson

We study a new approach to generally covariant quantum mechanics applied in the case of an FLRW cosmological background. For positive spatial curvature we find a discrete series of solutions of the Klein-Gordon equation that can reasonably…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-13 Edwin Beggs , Shahn Majid

The existence of a weak galactic magnetic field has been repeatedly confirmed by observational data. The origin of this field has not as yet been explained in a fully satisfactory way and represents one of the main challenges of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Alexander Schekochihin , Stanislav Boldyrev , Russell Kulsrud

Self-diffusion along the longitudinal coordinate in a channel of varying cross section is considered. The starting point is the two-dimensional Enskog-Boltzmann-Lorentz kinetic equation with appropriated boundary conditions. It is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-08 J. Javier Brey , M. I. García de Soria , P. Maynar

We study the elastic response of a worm-like polymer chain with reversible kink-like structural defects. This is a generic model for (a) the double-stranded DNA with sharp bends induced by binding of certain proteins, and (b) effects of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Yuri O. Popov , Alexei V. Tkachenko

The dynamics of fronts, or kinks, in dispersive media with gain and losses is considered. It is shown that the front parameters, such as the velocity and width, depend on initial conditions. This result is not typical for dissipative…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-08-06 Izzat M. Allayarov , Eduard N. Tsoy

Cavitation is a ubiquitous phenomenon in nature and bubble dynamics in open spaces have been widely studied, but the effects of the wall on the dynamics of cavitation bubbles in confined spaces are still unclear. Here, the dynamics of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-17 Jinzhao Liu , Tianyou Wang , Zhizhao Che

Ferromagnetic domain walls -transitional regions between magnetic domains- are an essential ingredient for racetrack memory, a device concept that promises to deliver faster and more compact memory storage compared to other non-volatile…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 A. L. Bassant , Y. M. J. Ohlsen , M. Cherkasskii , P. B. He , R. A. Duine

We study the collision of a kink and an antikink in the double sine-Gordon model with and without the excited vibrational mode. In the latter case, we find that there is a limited range of the parameters where the resonance windows exist,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-14 João G. F. Campos , Azadeh Mohammadi

We explore the contributions of adiabatic and non-adiabatic spin-transfer torques (STT) of a spin-polarized current to the thermally activated creep motion of domain-walls in a thin (Ga,Mn)(As,P) film with perpendicular anisotropy. For a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 Lucas Javier Albornoz , Rebeca Díaz Pardo , Aristide Lemaître , Sebastian Bustingorry , Javier Curiale , Vincent Jeudy

In this work, we investigate numerical evolution of massive Kaluza-Klein (KK) modes of a Dirac field on a thick brane. We deduce the Dirac equation in five-dimensional spacetime, and obtain the time-dependent evolution equation and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-08 Chun-Chun Zhu , Qin Tan , Yu-Peng Zhang , Yu-Xiao Liu

We study the evolution of various types of biased domain wall networks in the early universe. We carry out larger numerical simulations than currently available in the literature and provide a more detailed study of the decay of these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-16 J. R. C. C. C. Correia , I. S. C. R. Leite , C. J. A. P. Martins

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 study the evolution of biased domain walls in the early universe. We explicitly discuss the roles played by the surface tension and volume pressure in the evolution of the walls, and quantify their effects by looking at the collapse of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 P. P. Avelino , C. J. A. P. Martins , L. Sousa

We have studied the cosmological evolution of domain wall networks in two, three and four spatial dimensions using high-resolution field theory simulations. The dynamical range and number of our simulations is larger than in previous works,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 J. C. R. E. Oliveira , C. J. A. P. Martins , P. P. Avelino

The propagation of an action potential is accompanied by mechanical and thermal effects. Several mathematical models explain the deformation of the unmyelinated axon wall. In this paper, the deformation of the myelinated axon wall is…

Biological Physics · Physics 2022-06-28 Kert Tamm , Tanel Peets , Jüri Engelbrecht

Kink dynamics of the damped Frenkel-Kontorova (discrete sine-Gordon) chain driven by a constant external force are investigated. Resonant steplike transitions of the average velocity occur due to the competitions between the moving kinks…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Zhigang Zheng , Bambi Hu , Gang Hu

We solve numerically the equations of motion for the collapse of a shell of baryonic matter falling into the central regions of a cluster of galaxies, taking into account of the presence of the substructure inducing dynamical friction. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Del Popolo , M. Gambera , V. Antonuccio-Delogu

The theory of distributions in non-Riemannian spaces is used to obtain exact static thin domain wall solutions of Einstein-Cartan equations of gravity. Curvature $ \delta $-singularities are found while Cartan torsion is given by Heaviside…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 L. C. Garcia de Andrade