Composite domain walls in flat nanomagnets: the magnetostatic limit

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2006-04-15
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American Institute of Physics
Abstract
We discuss the structure of the so-called 'vortex' domain walls in soft magnetic nanoparticles. A wall of this kind is a composite object consisting of three elementary topological defects: two edge defects with winding numbers -1/2 and a vortex with a winding number +1 between them. We provide a qualitative model accounting for the energetics of such a domain wall.
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composite domain walls, flat nanomagnets, magnetostatic limit, soft magnetic materials, nanoparticles, magnetic domain walls, soft magnetic nanoparticles, edge defects, winding numbers, vortex
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Journal of Applied Physics 15 April 2006, vol.99, no.8, pp. 8B101-1-3