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Chaotic domain patterns in periodic inhomogeneous magnetic films
N García1, V V Osipov, E V Ponizovskaya
1Laboratorio de Física de Sistemas Pequeños y Nanotecnología, C.S.I.C., c/Serrano 144, 28006 Madrid, Spain.
Physical Review Letters
|June 1, 2001
Abstract:
A study of domain structures in thin inhomogeneous ferromagnetic films is presented. It is shown that smooth and small inhomogeneities in the exchange and anisotropy parameters yield very complex domain structures. We show that the domain walls are fixed near certain inhomogeneities but do not repeat their space distribution. We found that there are metastable chaotic domain patterns in periodic inhomogeneous films. These results are relevant for magnetoresistive devices.