A New Method to Measure the Microresidual Stress-Field Around Inclusions

1968 ◽  
Vol 90 (4) ◽  
pp. 620-622 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. B. Gulbransen ◽  
S. K. Chatterjee

A brief review of various theories of interaction of inclusions and domain walls in a ferromagnetic material is presented. A postulate concerning the modification of domain patterns by inclusions, based on theory, is described and the various free-energy contributions of the inclusion to the matrix in the vicinity of the inclusion are discussed. Examples of domain wall bending in ingot iron by manganese sulfide inclusions are shown to agree with the postulated model of interaction of a stress field around the inclusion and the domain wall.

Author(s):  
J.N. Chapman ◽  
P.E. Batson ◽  
E.M. Waddell ◽  
R.P. Ferrier

By far the most commonly used mode of Lorentz microscopy in the examination of ferromagnetic thin films is the Fresnel or defocus mode. Use of this mode in the conventional transmission electron microscope (CTEM) is straightforward and immediately reveals the existence of all domain walls present. However, if such quantitative information as the domain wall profile is required, the technique suffers from several disadvantages. These include the inability to directly observe fine image detail on the viewing screen because of the stringent illumination coherence requirements, the difficulty of accurately translating part of a photographic plate into quantitative electron intensity data, and, perhaps most severe, the difficulty of interpreting this data. One solution to the first-named problem is to use a CTEM equipped with a field emission gun (FEG) (Inoue, Harada and Yamamoto 1977) whilst a second is to use the equivalent mode of image formation in a scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) (Chapman, Batson, Waddell, Ferrier and Craven 1977), a technique which largely overcomes the second-named problem as well.


Author(s):  
Wenwu Cao

Domain structures play a key role in determining the physical properties of ferroelectric materials. The formation of these ferroelectric domains and domain walls are determined by the intrinsic nonlinearity and the nonlocal coupling of the polarization. Analogous to soliton excitations, domain walls can have high mobility when the domain wall energy is high. The domain wall can be describes by a continuum theory owning to the long range nature of the dipole-dipole interactions in ferroelectrics. The simplest form for the Landau energy is the so called ϕ model which can be used to describe a second order phase transition from a cubic prototype,where Pi (i =1, 2, 3) are the components of polarization vector, α's are the linear and nonlinear dielectric constants. In order to take into account the nonlocal coupling, a gradient energy should be included, for cubic symmetry the gradient energy is given by,


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Ghara ◽  
K. Geirhos ◽  
L. Kuerten ◽  
P. Lunkenheimer ◽  
V. Tsurkan ◽  
...  

AbstractAtomically sharp domain walls in ferroelectrics are considered as an ideal platform to realize easy-to-reconfigure nanoelectronic building blocks, created, manipulated and erased by external fields. However, conductive domain walls have been exclusively observed in oxides, where domain wall mobility and conductivity is largely influenced by stoichiometry and defects. Here, we report on giant conductivity of domain walls in the non-oxide ferroelectric GaV4S8. We observe conductive domain walls forming in zig-zagging structures, that are composed of head-to-head and tail-to-tail domain wall segments alternating on the nanoscale. Remarkably, both types of segments possess high conductivity, unimaginable in oxide ferroelectrics. These effectively 2D domain walls, dominating the 3D conductance, can be mobilized by magnetic fields, triggering abrupt conductance changes as large as eight orders of magnitude. These unique properties demonstrate that non-oxide ferroelectrics can be the source of novel phenomena beyond the realm of oxide electronics.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Łukasz Frąckowiak ◽  
Feliks Stobiecki ◽  
Gabriel David Chaves-O’Flynn ◽  
Maciej Urbaniak ◽  
Marek Schmidt ◽  
...  

AbstractRecent results showed that the ferrimagnetic compensation point and other characteristic features of Tb/Co ferrimagnetic multilayers can be tailored by He+ ion bombardment. With appropriate choices of the He+ ion dose, we prepared two types of lattices composed of squares with either Tb or Co domination. The magnetization reversal of the first lattice is similar to that seen in ferromagnetic heterostructures consisting of areas with different switching fields. However, in the second lattice, the creation of domains without accompanying domain walls is possible. These domain patterns are particularly stable because they simultaneously lower the demagnetizing energy and the energy associated with the presence of domain walls (exchange and anisotropy). For both lattices, studies of magnetization reversal show that this process takes place by the propagation of the domain walls. If they are not present at the onset, the reversal starts from the nucleation of reversed domains and it is followed by domain wall propagation. The magnetization reversal process does not depend significantly on the relative sign of the effective magnetization in areas separated by domain walls.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Delmastro ◽  
Jaume Gomis

Abstract 4d$$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 1 super Yang-Mills (SYM) with simply connected gauge group G has h gapped vacua arising from the spontaneously broken discrete R-symmetry, where h is the dual Coxeter number of G. Therefore, the theory admits stable domain walls interpolating between any two vacua, but it is a nonperturbative problem to determine the low energy theory on the domain wall. We put forward an explicit answer to this question for all the domain walls for G = SU(N), Sp(N), Spin(N) and G2, and for the minimal domain wall connecting neighboring vacua for arbitrary G. We propose that the domain wall theories support specific nontrivial topological quantum field theories (TQFTs), which include the Chern-Simons theory proposed long ago by Acharya-Vafa for SU(N). We provide nontrivial evidence for our proposals by exactly matching renormalization group invariant partition functions twisted by global symmetries of SYM computed in the ultraviolet with those computed in our proposed infrared TQFTs. A crucial element in this matching is constructing the Hilbert space of spin TQFTs, that is, theories that depend on the spin structure of spacetime and admit fermionic states — a subject we delve into in some detail.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Anna Naszodi ◽  
Francisco Mendonca

Abstract We develop a method which assumes that marital preferences are characterized either by the scalar-valued measure proposed by Liu and Lu, or by the matrix-valued generalized Liu–Lu measure. The new method transforms an observed contingency table into a counterfactual table while preserving its (generalized) Liu–Lu value. After exploring some analytical properties of the new method, we illustrate its application by decomposing changes in the prevalence of homogamy in the US between 1980 and 2010. We perform this decomposition with two alternative transformation methods as well where both methods capture preferences differently from Liu and Lu. Finally, we use survey evidence to support our claim that out of the three considered methods, the new transformation method is the most suitable for identifying the role of marital preferences at shaping marriage patterns. These data are also in favor of measuring assortativity in preferences à la Liu and Lu.


Author(s):  
François Alouges ◽  
Giovanni Di Fratta

The objective of this paper is to perform, by means of Γ - convergence and two-scale convergence , a rigorous derivation of the homogenized Gibbs–Landau free energy functional associated with a composite periodic ferromagnetic material, i.e. a ferromagnetic material in which the heterogeneities are periodically distributed inside the media. We thus describe the Γ -limit of the Gibbs–Landau free energy functional, as the period over which the heterogeneities are distributed inside the ferromagnetic body shrinks to zero.


2015 ◽  
Vol 233-234 ◽  
pp. 55-59
Author(s):  
Marina Kirman ◽  
Artem Talantsev ◽  
Roman Morgunov

The magnetization dynamics of metal-organic crystals has been studied in low frequency AC magnetic field. Four modes of domain wall motion (Debye relaxation, creep, slide and over - barrier motion (switching)) were distinguished in [MnII(H(R/S)-pn)(H2O)] [MnIII(CN)6]⋅2H2O crystals. Debye relaxation and creep of the domain walls are sensitive to Peierls relief configuration controlled by crystal lattice chirality. Structural defects and periodical Peierls potential compete in the damping of the domain walls. Driving factor of this competition is ratio of the domain wall width to the crystal lattice parameter.


2018 ◽  
Vol 191 ◽  
pp. 08004
Author(s):  
A.D. Dolgov ◽  
S.I. Godunov ◽  
A.S. Rudenko

We study the evolution of thick domain walls in the expanding universe. We have found that the domain wall evolution crucially depends on the time-dependent parameter C(t) = 1/(H(t)δ0)2, where H(t) is the Hubble parameter and δ0 is the width of the wall in flat space-time. For C(t) > 2 the physical width of the wall, a(t)δ(t), tends with time to constant value δ0, which is microscopically small. Otherwise, when C(t) ≤ 2, the wall steadily expands and can grow up to a cosmologically large size.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Prendergast

This paper describes a new method for performing secure encryption of blocks of streaming data. This algorithm is an extension of the RSA encryption algorithm. Instead of using a public key (e,n) where n is the product of two large primes and e is relatively prime to the Euler Totient function, φ(n), one uses a public key (n,m,E), where m is the rank of the matrix E and E is an invertible matrix in GL(m,φ(n)). When m is 1, this last condition is equivalent to saying that E is relatively prime to φ(n), which is a requirement for standard RSA encryption. Rather than a secret private key (d,φ(n)) where d is the inverse of e (mod φ(n)), the private key is (D,φ(n)), where D is the inverse of E (mod (φ(n)). The key to making this generalization work is a matrix generalization of the scalar exponentiation operator that maps the set of m-dimensional vectors with integer coefficients modulo n, onto itself.


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