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発音

• ハイフネーション: do‧main‧wall

名詞

domain wall (複数形 domain walls)

1. (physics) An interface separating magnetic domains.
   • 1998, Eugene M. Chudnovsky and Javier Tejada, Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling of the Magnetic Moment [1], ISBN 0521474043, 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 0735402957, 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).