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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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