dc.creator | KASHUBA, AB | |
dc.creator | Pokrovsky, Valery L. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-09-19T20:00:32Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-09-19T20:00:32Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1993 | |
dc.identifier.citation | AB KASHUBA and Valery L. Pokrovsky. Phys.Rev.B 48 10335-10344 1993."Copyright (1993) by the American Physical Society." | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.48.10335 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/146758 | |
dc.description | Journals published by the American Physical Society can be found at http://journals.aps.org/ | en |
dc.description.abstract | We present a theory of the stripe domain structure in a thin ferromagnetic film with single-ion easy-axis magnetic anisotropy and long-range dipole interactions, for a wide range of temperatures and applied magnetic field. The domains exist at temperatures below the reorientational phase transition from out-of-plane to in-plane magnetization. The system of stripes can be described as a liquid crystal with a preferred domain-wall orientation. The positional order is destroyed by both thermodynamical meandering of domain walls and by the proliferation of dislocations. Spatial anisotropy generated by the fourth-order exchange energy stabilizes the stripe domain structure and pins its orientation. For any temperature below the reorientational phase transition there exists a critical perpendicular-to-plane magnetic field, which separates multidomain and monodomain states of the film. The theory explains recent experimental observations. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | American Physical Society | |
dc.rights | This work is archived in the Texas A&M Digital Repository with the express permission of the rights holder (commonly but not always the publisher). A copy of the permission document is on file with the Texas A&M University Libraries. | en |
dc.subject | INPLANE MAGNETIZATION | en |
dc.subject | SMECTICS-A | en |
dc.subject | MAGNETISM | en |
dc.subject | MONOLAYER | en |
dc.subject | IRON | en |
dc.subject | Physics | en |
dc.title | Stripe Domain-Structures in a Thin Ferromagnetic Film | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
local.department | Physics and Astronomy | en |