Phys. Rev. E 56, 5036 - 5043 (1997)

Ordering process and Bloch wall dynamics in a two-dimensional anisotropic spin system

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Hiroki Tutu
Department of Physics, Kyushu University 33, Fukuoka 812, Japan

Received 3 June 1997

The ordering process of a nonconserved anisotropic XY-spin system in two-dimensional space is investigated. The dynamics is described by the motion of the domain wall, the so-called Bloch wall, which has chirality, in addition to the curvature of the interface. We obtain a convenient description for the dynamics of the domain wall, which has a generalized form of the Allen-Cahn-type equation of motion for the phase boundary, taking into account the effect of the width of the wall. We also discuss the short-scale behavior of the correlation function for this system when the system relaxes from an O(2) symmetry state to a state having O(1) symmetry.


©1997 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRE/v56/p5036
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.56.5036
PACS: 05.70.Ln, 64.60.Cn, 75.60.Ch

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