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Turbulence ahead

An Erratum to this article was published on 03 November 2005

Understanding the movement of domain walls is important for the development of fast spintronic devices. In nanowires, this domain-wall motion is found to show a complex behaviour.

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Figure 1: Moving walls.

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Cowburn, R., Petit, D. Turbulence ahead. Nature Mater 4, 721–722 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat1503

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