BREAKING CHIRALITY IN NONEQUILIBRIUM SYSTEMS

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作者
COULLET, P [1 ]
LEGA, J [1 ]
HOUCHMANDZADEH, B [1 ]
LAJZEROWICZ, J [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV JOSEPH FOURIER, SPECT PHYS LAB, F-38400 ST MARTIN DHERES, FRANCE
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.65.1352
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
At equilibrium, Bloch walls are chiral interfaces between domains with different magnetization. Far from equilibrium, a set of forced oscillators can exhibit walls between states with different phases. In this Letter, we show that when these walls become chiral, they move with a velocity simply related to their chirality. This surprising behavior is a straightforward consequence of nonvariational effects, which are typical of nonequilibrium systems. © 1990 The American Physical Society.
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页码:1352 / 1355
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