Mobility of Bloch walls via the collective coordinate method

M. A. Despósito, A. Villares Ferrer, A. O. Caldeira, and A. H. Castro Neto
Phys. Rev. B 62, 919 – Published 1 July 2000
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Abstract

We have studied the problem of the dissipative motion of Bloch walls considering a totally anisotropic one-dimensional spin chain in the presence of a magnetic field. Using the so-called “collective coordinate method” we construct an effective Hamiltonian for the Bloch wall coupled to the magnetic excitations of the system. It allows us to analyze the Brownian motion of the wall in terms of the reflection coefficient of the effective potential felt by the excitations due to the existence of the wall. We find that for finite values of the external field the wall mobility is also finite. The spectrum of the potential at large fields is investigated and the dependence of the damping constant on temperature is evaluated. As a result we find the temperature and magnetic-field dependence of the wall mobility.

  • Received 8 February 1999

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.62.919

©2000 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

M. A. Despósito*

  • Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, RA-1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina

A. Villares Ferrer and A. O. Caldeira

  • Instituto de Física “Gleb Wataghin,” Departamento de Física do Estado Sólido e Ciência dos Materiais, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, 13083-970 Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

A. H. Castro Neto

  • Department of Physics, University of California, Riverside, California 92521

  • *Electronic address: mad@df.uba.ar

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