“…Formation of new nucleation centers is less likely in this latter case because in most parts of the films, the local nucleation coercivity is higher than the wall motion coercivity. The second question, the difference between the two kinds of initial magnetization curves, can be answered by the well-known minimum stable domain diameter, [8][9][10][11] d = cσ w /(M s H c ), where c is a positive proportion factor (whose value depends on the shape of the domain and is on the order of 1), σ w is the wall energy density, M s is the saturation magnetization, H c is coercivity, and d is the diameter of the domain. The domain wall feels a collapsing force, H collap = −cσ w /(M s d), arising from the domain wall energy, where the sigh means that the field is opposite to the domain magnetization.…”