The Non--Ergodicity Threshold: Time Scale for Magnetic Reversal

Details The Non--Ergodicity Threshold: Time Scale for Magnetic Reversal The Non--Ergodicity Threshold: Time Scale for Magnetic Reversal

2004-10-05

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0410119v3

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

4 pages 4 figures

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We prove the existence of a non-ergodicity threshold for an anisotropic classical Heisenberg model with all-to-all couplings. Below the threshold, the energy surface is disconnected in two components with positive and negative magnetizations respectively. Above, in a fully chaotic regime, magnetization changes sign in a stochastic way and its behavior can be fully characterized by an average magnetization reversal time. We show that statistical mechanics predicts a phase--transition at an energy higher than the non-ergodicity threshold. We assess the dynamical relevance of the latter for finite systems through numerical simulations and analytical calculations. In particular, the time scale for magnetic reversal diverges as a power law at the ergodicity threshold with a size-dependent exponent, which could be a signature of the phenomenon.

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