Zero-temperature spin-glass freezing in self-organized arrays of Co nanoparticles

Details Zero-temperature spin-glass freezing in self-organized arrays of Co nanoparticles Zero-temperature spin-glass freezing in self-organized arrays of Co nanoparticles

2011-03-23

arxiv.org/abs/1103.4492v1

EPL 89, 67011 (2010)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

6 pages 6 figures

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We study, by means of magnetic susceptibility and magnetic aging experiments, the nature of the glassy magnetic dynamics in arrays of Co nanoparticles, self-organized in N layers from N=1 (two-dimensional limit) up to N=20 (three-dimensional limit). We find no qualitative differences between the magnetic responses measured in these two limits, in spite of the fact that no spin-glass phase is expected above T=0 in two dimensions. More specifically, all the phenomena (critical slowing down, flattening of the field-cooled magnetization below the blocking temperature and the magnetic memory induced by aging) that are usually associated with this phase look qualitatively the same for two-dimensional and three-dimensional arrays. The activated scaling law that is typical of systems undergoing a phase transition at zero temperature accounts well for the critical slowing down of the dc and ac susceptibilities of all samples. Our data show also that dynamical magnetic correlations achieved by aging a nanoparticle array below its superparamagnetic blocking temperature extend mainly to nearest neighbors. Our experiments suggest that the glassy magnetic dynamics of these nanoparticle arrays is associated with a zero-temperature spin-glass transition.

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