Chiral symmetry breaking and pair-creation mediated Walker breakdown in magnetic nanotubes

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 25, 2012, Pages

  Yan, Ming ^a,b   Andreas, Christian ^a,c   Kákay, Attila ^a   García Sánchez, Felipe ^a   Hertel, Riccardo ^a,c  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAKDOWN FIELD; CHIRAL SYMMETRY; FLAT STRIPS; LEFT-RIGHT SYMMETRY; MAGNETIC NANOTUBES; MICROMAGNETIC STUDY; PROPAGATION DIRECTION; TOPOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS; TUBULAR GEOMETRY; VORTEX-ANTIVORTEX PAIRS;

PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; PHYSICS;

NANOTUBES;

EID: 84863319286     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4727909     Document Type: Article

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