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Dissipation and quantum propagation of bloch walls

Braun, H. B. and Loss, D.. (1995) Dissipation and quantum propagation of bloch walls. Europhysics Letters, Vol. 31, H. 9. pp. 555-560.

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Abstract

Bloch walls in mesoscopic ferromagnets are shown to tunnel coherently between periodically arranged pinning sites and to form a band similar to a Bloch electron in a crystal lattice. Eliminating the spin wave degrees of freedom we derive an effective action for the Bloch wall position. The dissipative term in this action involves a spectral function with a gap and therefore damping due to spin waves is negligible at low temperatures. It is shown that the Berry phase gives rise to a spin-parity-dependent shift in the dispersion. We show that this band structure can give rise to Bloch oscillations of the magnetization in response to a static external field, which provides a magnetic analog to the Josephson effect.
Faculties and Departments:05 Faculty of Science > Departement Physik > Physik > Theoretische Physik Mesoscopics (Loss)
UniBasel Contributors:Loss, Daniel
Item Type:Article, refereed
Article Subtype:Research Article
Publisher:Les éditions de physique
ISSN:0302-072X
Note:Publication type according to Uni Basel Research Database: Journal article
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