domain wall


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domain wall

A two-dimensional defect in spacetime that, unlike cosmic strings, cannot survive the inflationary era. See inflationary Universe.
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domain wall

[dō′mān ‚wȯl]
(solid-state physics)
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The magnetization reversal process reveals typical ferromagnetic domain behavior--that is, domain nucleation and possibly domain wall propagation--in contrast to much weaker magnetic signals observed in the end-members, possibly due to super-paramagnetic behavior.
In this scenario spacetime is separated into two manifolds with their own distinct metrics, which are typically joined across a thin wall (domain wall).
To reach typical domain wall (DW) velocities of 10 x 100 [ms.sup.-1], a current density as large as ~[10.sup.11] to [10.sup.12]-A[m.sup.-2] would be necessary, resulting in huge Joule heating.
As a result, the permeability of the sample is increased by reducing the total area of domain walls and the amount of domain wall pinning.
In the course of their research into the use of magnetic domain walls (local regions of magnetic "charge" usually driven by magnetic fields) to increase our capacity for information storage and logical processing, physicists at the University of Nottingham have discovered a phenomenon which has allowed them to 'manipulate' the structure of a magnetic domain wall.
The authors of [4] mark out the following four causes of dielectric and electromechanical losses: (1) related to domain wall motion, (2) point crystal lattice defects, (3) microstructural losses at the grain boundaries because of material crystallinity, and (4) ohmic losses observed mainly in materials with high large electric conductivity.
One of the most famous partition functions in integrable lattice models are the domain wall boundary partition functions which was first introduced and analyzed in [7,8].
However, the tan [[delta].sub.r], which is determined by the domain wall and spin rotational resonances, is predominant [17,18].

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