A compactness result for Landau state in thin-film micromagnetics

DOI10.1016/J.ANIHPC.2011.01.001zbMATH Open1216.49041arXiv1009.1649OpenAlexW3098627859MaRDI QIDQ532450FDOQ532450

Authors: Radu Ignat, Felix Otto 

Publication date: 4 May 2011

Published in: Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré. Analyse Non Linéaire (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We deal with a nonconvex and nonlocal variational problem coming from thin-film micromagnetics. It consists in a free-energy functional depending on two small parameters $eps$ and $eta$ and defined over $S^2-$vector fields $m$ that are tangent at the boundary of a two-dimensional domain $Omega$. We are interested in the behavior of minimizers as $eps,etao0$. The minimizers tend to be in-plane away from a region of length scale $eps$ (generically, an interior vortex ball or two boundary vortex balls) and of vanishing divergence, so that $S^1-$transition layers of length scale $eta$ (N'eel walls) are enforced by the boundary condition. We first prove an upper bound for the minimal energy that corresponds to the cost of a vortex and the configuration of N'eel walls associated to the viscosity solution, so-called Landau state. Our main result concerns the compactness of vector fields $m_{eps,eta}$ of energies close to the Landau state in the regime where a vortex is energetically more expensive than a N'eel wall. Our method uses techniques developed for the Ginzburg-Landau type problems for the concentration of energy on vortex balls, together with an approximation argument of $S^2-$vector fields by $S^1-$vector fields away from the vortex balls.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.1649

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zbMATH Keywords

compactnesssingular perturbationmicromagneticsvortexGinzburg-Landau energyNéel wall

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods applied to PDEs (35A15) Singular perturbations in context of PDEs (35B25) Viscosity solutions to Hamilton-Jacobi equations in optimal control and differential games (49L25) Variational principles of physics (49S05) Statistical mechanics of magnetic materials (82D40)

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