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Néel and Cross-Tie Wall Energies for Planar Micromagnetic Configurations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 August 2002

François Alouges ,
Tristan Rivière  and
Sylvia Serfaty
François Alouges
Affiliation:
Département de Mathématiques, Université de Paris-Sud, bâtiment 425, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France; Francois.Alouges@math.u-psud.fr.
Tristan Rivière
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland; riviere@math.ethz.ch.
Sylvia Serfaty
Affiliation:
Courant Institute, 251 Mercer St., New York, NY 10012, USA, and supported by CNRS; serfaty@cims.nyu.edu.
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Abstract


We study a two-dimensional model for micromagnetics, which consists in an energy functional over S2-valued vector fields. Bounded-energy configurations tend to be planar, except in small regions which can be described as vortices (Bloch lines in physics). As the characteristic “exchange-length” tends to 0, they converge to planar divergence-free unit norm vector fields which jump along line singularities. We derive lower bounds for the energy, which are explicit functions of the jumps of the limit. These lower bounds are proved to be optimal and are achieved by one-dimensional profiles, corresponding to Néel walls, if the jump is small enough (less than π/2 in angle), and by two-dimensional profiles, corresponding to cross-tie walls, if the jump is bigger. Thus, it provides an example of a vector-valued phase-transition type problem with an explicit non-one-dimensional energy-minimizing transition layer. We also establish other lower bounds and compactness properties on different quantities which provide a good notion of convergence and cost of vortices.

Keywords

Micromagneticsthin filmscross-tie wallsGamma-convergence.
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Research Article
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ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations , Volume 8: A tribute to JL Lions , 2002 , pp. 31 - 68
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© EDP Sciences, SMAI, 2002

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