Earthquake-like dynamics in ultrathin magnetic film

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Autores principales: Durin, Gianfranco, Schimmenti, Vincenzo Maria, Baiesi, Marco, Casiraghi, Arianna, Magni, Alessandro, Herrera-Diez, Liza, Ravelosona, Dafiné, Foini, Laura, Rosso, Alberto
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Publicado: 2023
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author Durin, Gianfranco
Schimmenti, Vincenzo Maria
Baiesi, Marco
Casiraghi, Arianna
Magni, Alessandro
Herrera-Diez, Liza
Ravelosona, Dafiné
Foini, Laura
Rosso, Alberto
author_facet Durin, Gianfranco
Schimmenti, Vincenzo Maria
Baiesi, Marco
Casiraghi, Arianna
Magni, Alessandro
Herrera-Diez, Liza
Ravelosona, Dafiné
Foini, Laura
Rosso, Alberto
contents We study the motion of a domain wall on an ultrathin magnetic film using the magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE). At tiny magnetic fields, the wall creeps only via thermal activation over the pinning centers present in the sample. Our results show that this creep dynamics is highly intermittent and correlated. A localized instability triggers a cascade, akin to aftershocks following a large earthquake, where the pinned wall undergoes large reorganizations in a compact active region for a few seconds. Surprisingly, the size and shape of these reorganizations display the same scale-free statistics of the depinning avalanches in agreement with the quenched Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality class.
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spellingShingle Earthquake-like dynamics in ultrathin magnetic film
Durin, Gianfranco
Schimmenti, Vincenzo Maria
Baiesi, Marco
Casiraghi, Arianna
Magni, Alessandro
Herrera-Diez, Liza
Ravelosona, Dafiné
Foini, Laura
Rosso, Alberto
Materials Science
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Statistical Mechanics
We study the motion of a domain wall on an ultrathin magnetic film using the magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE). At tiny magnetic fields, the wall creeps only via thermal activation over the pinning centers present in the sample. Our results show that this creep dynamics is highly intermittent and correlated. A localized instability triggers a cascade, akin to aftershocks following a large earthquake, where the pinned wall undergoes large reorganizations in a compact active region for a few seconds. Surprisingly, the size and shape of these reorganizations display the same scale-free statistics of the depinning avalanches in agreement with the quenched Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality class.
title Earthquake-like dynamics in ultrathin magnetic film
topic Materials Science
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Statistical Mechanics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.12898