Propelling Ferrimagnetic Domain Walls by Dynamical Frustration

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Autores principales: Hardt, Dennis, Doostani, Reza, Diehl, Sebastian, del Ser, Nina, Rosch, Achim
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Publicado: 2024
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author Hardt, Dennis
Doostani, Reza
Diehl, Sebastian
del Ser, Nina
Rosch, Achim
author_facet Hardt, Dennis
Doostani, Reza
Diehl, Sebastian
del Ser, Nina
Rosch, Achim
contents Many-particle systems driven out of thermal equilibrium can show properties qualitatively different from any thermal state. Here, we study a ferrimagnet in a weak oscillating magnetic field. In this model, domain walls are not static, but are shown to move actively in a direction chosen by spontaneous symmetry breaking. Thus they act like self-propelling units. Their collective behaviour is reminiscent of other systems with actively moving units studied in the field of 'active matter', where, e.g., flocks of birds are investigated. The active motion of the domain walls emerges from 'dynamical frustration'. The antiferromagnetic xy-order rotates clockwise or anticlockwise, determined by the sign of the ferromagnetic component. This necessarily leads to frustration at a domain wall, which gets resolved by propelling the domain wall with a velocity proportional to the square root of the driving power across large parameter regimes. This motion and strong hydrodynamic interactions lead to a linear growth of the magnetic correlation length over time, much faster than in equilibrium. The dynamical frustration furthermore makes the system highly resilient to noise. The correlation length of the weakly driven one-dimensional system can be orders of magnitude larger than in the corresponding equilibrium system with the same noise level.
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spellingShingle Propelling Ferrimagnetic Domain Walls by Dynamical Frustration
Hardt, Dennis
Doostani, Reza
Diehl, Sebastian
del Ser, Nina
Rosch, Achim
Statistical Mechanics
Soft Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Pattern Formation and Solitons
Many-particle systems driven out of thermal equilibrium can show properties qualitatively different from any thermal state. Here, we study a ferrimagnet in a weak oscillating magnetic field. In this model, domain walls are not static, but are shown to move actively in a direction chosen by spontaneous symmetry breaking. Thus they act like self-propelling units. Their collective behaviour is reminiscent of other systems with actively moving units studied in the field of 'active matter', where, e.g., flocks of birds are investigated. The active motion of the domain walls emerges from 'dynamical frustration'. The antiferromagnetic xy-order rotates clockwise or anticlockwise, determined by the sign of the ferromagnetic component. This necessarily leads to frustration at a domain wall, which gets resolved by propelling the domain wall with a velocity proportional to the square root of the driving power across large parameter regimes. This motion and strong hydrodynamic interactions lead to a linear growth of the magnetic correlation length over time, much faster than in equilibrium. The dynamical frustration furthermore makes the system highly resilient to noise. The correlation length of the weakly driven one-dimensional system can be orders of magnitude larger than in the corresponding equilibrium system with the same noise level.
title Propelling Ferrimagnetic Domain Walls by Dynamical Frustration
topic Statistical Mechanics
Soft Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Pattern Formation and Solitons
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.14320