domain wall

English

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: do‧main‧wall

Noun

domain wall (plural domain walls)

1. (physics) An interface separating magnetic domains.
   • 1998, Eugene M. Chudnovsky, Javier Tejada, Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling of the Magnetic Moment‎^[1], →ISBN, page 67:

     A domain wall corresponds to the rotation of the magnetization vector from one magnetic domain to another.

2. (astrophysics) A two-dimensional singularity hypothesized in string theory.
   • 2006, M. Eto et al., “Solitons in Supersymmetric Gauge Theories”, in Particles, Strings and Cosmology‎^[2], →ISBN, page 266:

     The simplest soliton is the domain wall with co-dimension one, and the next simplest is the vortex with co-dimension two, whereas the co-dimension three (four) soliton is called monopole (instanton).

Translations

interface separating magnetic domains

• Korean: 구역벽 (guyeokbyeok)