A reduced model for domain walls in soft ferromagnetic films at the cross-over from symmetric to asymmetric wall types

DOI10.4171/JEMS/464MaRDI QIDQ461276zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Lukas Döring, Radu Ignat, Felix Otto

Publication date 10 October 2014

Published in Journal of the European Mathematical Society (JEMS) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.2494

zbMATH Keywords

\(\Gamma\)-convergencebifurcationconcentration-compactnessmicromagneticstransition layer

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electro- and magnetostatics (78A30) Bifurcations in context of PDEs (35B32) Pattern formations in context of PDEs (35B36) Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45) Variational principles of physics (49S05)

Abstract: We study the Landau-Lifshitz model for the energy of multi-scale transition layers -- called "domain walls" -- in soft ferromagnetic films. Domain walls separate domains of constant magnetization vectors $m^{p}minmathbb{S}^2$ that differ by an angle $2alpha$. Assuming translation invariance tangential to the wall, our main result is the rigorous derivation of a reduced model for the energy of the optimal transition layer, which in a certain parameter regime confirms the experimental, numerical and physical predictions: The minimal energy splits into a contribution from an asymmetric, divergence-free core which performs a partial rotation in $mathbb{S}^2$ by an angle $2heta$, and a contribution from two symmetric, logarithmically decaying tails, each of which completes the rotation from angle $heta$ to $alpha$ in $mathbb{S}^1$. The angle $heta$ is chosen such that the total energy is minimal. The contribution from the symmetric tails is known explicitly, while the contribution from the asymmetric core is analyzed in [7]. Our reduced model is the starting point for the analysis of a bifurcation phenomenon from symmetric to asymmetric domain walls. Moreover, it allows for capturing asymmetric domain walls including their extended tails (which were previously inaccessible to brute-force numerical simulation).

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