Lower Bound for the Energy of Bloch Walls in Micromagnetics

Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis

Volumn 199, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 369-406

  Ignat, Radu ^a   Merlet, Benoît ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

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EID: 78751663546     PISSN: 00039527     EISSN: 14320673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00205-010-0325-7     Document Type: Article

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