Energy landscape and thermally activated switching of submicron-sized ferromagnetic elements

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 2275-2282

  E, Weinan ^a   Ren, Weiqing ^b   Vanden Eijnden, Eric ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC DOMAINS; MAGNETIC THICK FILMS; MAGNETIC THIN FILMS; MAGNETIZATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; NUCLEATION; PROBABILITY; SWITCHING;

VORTEX PROPAGATION;

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS;

EID: 0037442489     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1536737     Document Type: Article

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