TY - JOUR
T1 - Breaking chirality in nonequilibrium systems
AU - Coullet, P.
AU - Lega, J.
AU - Houchmanzadeh, B.
AU - Lajzerowicz, J.
PY - 1990/1/1
Y1 - 1990/1/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.65.1352
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.65.1352
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:11944259553
VL - 65
SP - 1352
EP - 1355
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
SN - 0031-9007
IS - 11
ER -