arXiv · 1804.09572
Intermittent collective dynamics of domain walls in the creep regime
Abstract
We study the ultra slow domain wall motion in ferromagnetic thin films driven by a weak magnetic field. Using time resolved magneto-optical Kerr effect microscopy, we access to the statistics of the intermittent thermally activated domain wall jumps between deep metastable states. Our observations are consistent with the existence of creep avalanches: roughly independent clusters with broad size and ignition waiting-time distributions, each one composed by a large number of spatio-temporally correlated thermally activated elementary events. Moreover, we evidence that the large scale geometry of domain walls is better described by depinning rather than equilibrium universal exponents.
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Matías Pablo Grassi, Alejandro B. Kolton, Vincent Jeudy, Alexandra Mougin, Sebastian Bustingorry, Javier Curiale. 2018-04-25. Intermittent collective dynamics of domain walls in the creep regime. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.98.224201
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