Runaway "fingerlike" instability of magnetic walls in ultrathin layers

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 19, 2004, Pages

  Elmegreen, B C ^a   Krusin Elbaum, L ^a   Shibauchi, T ^a,b   Argyle, B ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CHAOS THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECTS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RANDOM PROCESSES;

MAGNETIC WALLS; MAGNETOELASTIC INTERACTIONS; SPIN MOTIONS; WALL MOTION;

ULTRATHIN FILMS;

EID: 19744377149     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.197201     Document Type: Article

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