Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2001-10-10
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
8 pages, 12 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. B
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.65.064447
Two-dimensional magnetic garnets exhibit complex and fascinating magnetic domain structures, like stripes, labyrinths, cells and mixed states of stripes and cells. These patterns do change in a reversible way when the intensity of an externally applied magnetic field is varied. The main objective of this contribution is to present the results of a model that yields a rich pattern structure that closely resembles what is observed experimentally. Our model is a generalized two-dimensional Ising-like spin-one Hamiltonian with long-range interactions, which also incorporates anisotropy and Zeeman terms. The model is studied numerically, by means of Monte Carlo simulations. Changing the model parameters stripes, labyrinth and/or cellular domain structures are generated. For a variety of cases we display the patterns, determine the average size of the domains, the ordering transition temperature, specific heat, magnetic susceptibility and hysteresis cycle. Finally, we examine the reversibility of the pattern evolution under variations of the applied magnetic field. The results we obtain are in good qualitative agreement with experiment.
Goncalves Sebastian
Iglesias J. R.
Kiwi Marcos
Nagel O.
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