Magnetic free energy at elevated temperatures and hysteresis of magnetic particles

Details Magnetic free energy at elevated temperatures and hysteresis of magnetic particles Magnetic free energy at elevated temperatures and hysteresis of magnetic particles

2000-02-09

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0002127v3

Physica A 291 (2001) 485-500

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

16 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0378-4371(00)00535-5

We derive a free energy for weakly anisotropic ferromagnets which is valid in the whole temperature range and interpolates between the micromagnetic energy at zero temperature and the Landau free energy near the Curie point T_c. This free energy takes into account the change of the magnetization length due to thermal effects, in particular, in the inhomogeneous states. As an illustration, we study the thermal effect on the Stoner-Wohlfarth curve and hysteresis loop of a ferromagnetic nanoparticle assuming that it is in a single-domain state. Within this model, the saddle point of the particle's free energy, as well as the metastability boundary, are due to the change in the magnetization length sufficiently close to T_c, as opposed to the usual homogeneous rotation process at lower temperatures.

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