Research Article
Scaling in Modulated Systems
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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-02466-5_85, author={Oliver Portmann and Alessandro Vindigni and Danilo Pescia}, title={Scaling in Modulated Systems}, proceedings={Complex Sciences. First International Conference, Complex 2009, Shanghai, China, February 23-25, 2009. Revised Papers, Part 1}, proceedings_a={COMPLEX PART 1}, year={2012}, month={5}, keywords={frustrated systems modulated systems long-range interactions competing interactions scaling pattern formation}, doi={10.1007/978-3-642-02466-5_85} }
- Oliver Portmann
Alessandro Vindigni
Danilo Pescia
Year: 2012
Scaling in Modulated Systems
COMPLEX PART 1
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02466-5_85
Abstract
How can we understand a system that is too complicated to be simulated and in which some important quantities cannot be determined from observation? This is a question we were confronted with when we analyzed experimentally observed magnetic patterns in ultrathin ferromagnetic films. We have now, for this specific case, found a method that gives a good qualitative understanding of a surprising reentrance of order observed experimentally. This method is based on scaling arguments and may prove useful in the study of other complex systems.
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