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Domain Wall Dynamics in Ginzburg-Landau-Type Equations with Conservative Quantities

Materials Science 2015-06-19 v1 Pattern Formation and Solitons

Abstract

In the Ginzburg-Landau equation, there are domain walls connecting two metastable states. The dynamics of domain walls has been intensively studied, but there remain still unsolved but crucial problems even for a single domain. We study the domain wall dynamics in three different Ginzburg-Landau-type equations satisfying conservation laws. In a modified ϕ4\phi^4 model satisfying the law of energy conservation and the Lorentz invariance, the motion of a domain wall is accelerated and the velocity approaches its maximum. In a one-dimensional model of eutectic growth, the order parameter is conserved and a domain wall connecting a metastable uniform state and a spatially periodic pattern appears. We try to find a selection rule for the wavelength of a spatially periodic pattern. In a model equation for martensitic transformation, a domain wall connecting a uniform metastable state and a zigzag structure appears which propagates at a high velocity.

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@article{arxiv.1404.4480,
  title  = {Domain Wall Dynamics in Ginzburg-Landau-Type Equations with Conservative Quantities},
  author = {Hidetsugu Sakaguchi and Hiroshi Akamine},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.4480},
  year   = {2015}
}

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9 pages, 7 figures

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