Abstract
It is proposed that the main source of contrast of vertical Bloch lines (VBLs) in bubble garnets, when viewed by means of anisotropic dark field optical imaging, is a microdeformation of the wall plane at line location. The motive force for wall tilting is the compensation of the monopolar σ charges borne by VBLs. The tilted wall section acts as a phase object and allows for the formation of line images with well-defined symmetries and independent of the incident-beam polarization. All these features agree fully with experimental evidence. An approximate model of the wall deformation is presented and shown to be consistent for a given thickness and material parameters with the results of an ab initio numerical computation of the 3D structure of a VBL. The implications of the microdeformation model in terms of line observability are analyzed and compared with experimental data.
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