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Domain Wall Motion in the Presence of Nuclear Spins

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We investigate the motion of a domain wall in the presence of a dynamical hyperfine field. At temperature T high compared to the hyperfine coupling, the nuclear spins create a spatially random potential landscape, with dynamics dictated by the nuclear relaxation time T 2. The distribution of the domain wall relaxation times (both in the thermal and quantum regimes) can show a long tail, characteristic of stochastic processes where rare events are important. Here, these are due to occasional strong fluctuations in the nuclear spin polarisation.

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    Present address: Institut Laue-Langevin, Ave. des Martyrs, Grenoble, 38042, France

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  1. Helsinki Institute of Physics, Siltavuorenpenger 20 C), Helsinki, FIN-00014, Finland

    M. Dubé

  2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B. C, V6T 1Z1, Canada

    P. C. E. Stamp

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Dubé, M., Stamp, P.C.E. Domain Wall Motion in the Presence of Nuclear Spins. Journal of Low Temperature Physics 113, 1085–1090 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022576922410

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