One-dimensional domain walls in thin ferromagnetic films with fourfold anisotropy

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

5-4-2016

Abstract

We study the properties of domain walls and domain patterns in ultrathin epitaxial magnetic films with two orthogonal in-plane easy axes, which we call fourfold materials. In these materials, the magnetization vector is constrained to lie entirely in the film plane and has four preferred directions dictated by the easy axes. We prove the existence of 90° and 180° domain walls in these materials as minimizers of a nonlocal one-dimensional energy functional. Further, we investigate numerically the role of the considered domain wall solutions for pattern formation in a rectangular sample.

Identifier

84973369540 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Nonlinearity

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1088/0951-7715/29/6/1716

e-ISSN

13616544

ISSN

09517715

First Page

1716

Last Page

1734

Issue

6

Volume

29

Grant

1313687

Fund Ref

National Science Foundation

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