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MiS Preprint
1/2015
Asymmetric domain walls of small angle in soft ferromagnetic films
Lukas Döring and Radu Ignat
Abstract
We focus on a special type of domain walls appearing in the Landau-Lifshitz theory for soft ferromagnetic films. These domain walls are divergence-free S2-valued transition layers that connect two directions in S2 (differing by an angle 2θ) and minimize the Dirichlet energy. Our main result is the rigorous derivation of the asymptotic structure and energy of such "asymmetric" domain walls in the limit θ to 0. As an application, we deduce that a supercritical bifurcation causes the transition from symmetric to asymmetric walls in the full micromagnetic model.
