title: Depinning Transition of a Domain Wall in Ferromagnetic Films.
abstract: We report first principle numerical study of domain wall (DW) depinning in two-dimensional magnetic film, which is modeled by 2D random-field Ising system with the dipole-dipole interaction. We observe nonconventional activation-type motion of DW and reveal the fractal structure of DW near the depinning transition. We determine scaling functions describing critical dynamics near the transition and obtain universal exponents establishing connection between thermal softening of pinning potential and critical dynamics. We observe that tuning the strength of the dipole-dipole interaction switches DW dynamics between two different universality classes, corresponding to two distinct dynamic regimes characterized by non-Arrhenius and conventional Arrhenius-type DW motions.
authors.affiliation: International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba 305-0044, Japan.
authors.forename: Bin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Xi
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China.
authors.forename: Meng-Bo
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.affiliation: Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA.
authors.forename: Valerii M
authors.initials: VM
authors.lastname: Vinokur
authors.affiliation: International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba 305-0044, Japan.
authors.forename: Xiao
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Hu
mesh_terms: D008280:Magnetics; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D013696:Temperature