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Variational principles for the interaction of liquid crystals and electric fields in the Oseen--Frank model
Giovanni Di Fratta, Valeriy Slastikov, Arghir Zarnescu
We develop a rigorous variational framework for uniaxial nematic liquid crystals interacting with an external electric field in the one-constant Oseen--Frank approximation. Equilib…
The Ginzburg-Landau system with general potential: maximum principle and gradient estimates
Radu Ignat, Luc Nguyen, Valeriy Slastikov +1
We study critical points of the Ginzburg-Landau energy functional $$\mathcal{F}_\varepsilon[u] = \int_Ω\Big[ \frac{1}{2}|\nabla u|^2 + \frac{1}{2\varepsilon^2} W(1 - |u|^2)\Big]\,…
Existence of higher degree minimizers in the magnetic skyrmion problem
Cyrill B. Muratov, Theresa M. Simon, Valeriy V. Slastikov
We demonstrate existence of topologically nontrivial energy minimizing maps of a given positive degree from bounded domains in the plane to in a variational model des…
Skyrmion stacking in stray field-coupled ultrathin ferromagnetic multilayers
N. J. Dubicki, V. V. Slastikov, A. Bernand-Mantel +1
This paper explores the energy landscape of ferromagnetic multilayer heterostructures that feature magnetic skyrmions -- tiny whirls of spins with non-trivial topology -- in each m…
Reduced theory of symmetric and antisymmetric exchange interactions in nanowires
Giovanni Di Fratta, Filipp N. Rybakov, Valeriy Slastikov
We investigate the behavior of minimizers of perturbed Dirichlet energies supported on a wire generated by a regular simple curve and defined in the space of -va…
Reduced energies for thin ferromagnetic films with perpendicular anisotropy
G. Di Fratta, C. B. Muratov, V. V. Slastikov
We derive four reduced two-dimensional models that describe, at different spatial scales, the micromagnetics of ultrathin ferromagnetic materials of finite spatial extent featuring…