BLOCH STATES OF A BLOCH WALL

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作者
BRAUN, HB
LOSS, D
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[1] Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
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10.1063/1.358344
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O59 [应用物理学];
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摘要
Bloch walls in mesoscopic ferromagnets can tunnel between periodically arranged pinning sites leading to a Bloch band. The quantum spin phase gives rise to a spin parity dependent shift in the dispersion. Static external magnetic fields induce magnetization oscillations and provide a magnetic analogue of the Josephson effect.
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