Néel and Cross-Tie wall energies for planar micromagnetic configurations
We study a two-dimensional model for micromagnetics, which consists in an energy functional over -valued vector fields. Bounded-energy configurations tend to be planar, except in small regions which can be described as vortices (Bloch lines in physics). As the characteristic “exchange-length” tends to 0, they converge to planar divergence-free unit norm vector fields which jump along line singularities. We derive lower bounds for the energy, which are explicit functions of the jumps of the limit....