SIZE AND FLUCTUATION EFFECTS ON THE DYNAMICS OF LINEAR DOMAIN-WALLS IN AN ISING FERROMAGNET

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作者
KOTZLER, J [1 ]
GRAHL, M [1 ]
SESSLER, I [1 ]
FERRE, J [1 ]
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[1] UNIV PARIS 11,PHYS SOLIDES LAB,F-91405 ORSAY,FRANCE
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.64.2446
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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Approaching the Curie temperature of LiTbF4 ellipsoids of thicknesses between 0.5 and 7 mm up to Tc-T=3×10-4Tc, the first clear evidence for critical fluctuations and macroscopic size effects on the domain-wall relaxation is presented. An analog to the Landau-Lifshitz model proposed recently and additional optical data on the domain width suggest associating both phenomena with the existence of linear (Bulaevskii-Ginzburg) walls and with domain branching near the surface. © 1990 The American Physical Society.
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