Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2008-09-22
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
19 pages, 6 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.78.134419
The magnetic relaxation processes in disordered two-dimensional ensembles of dipole-coupled magnetic nanoparticles are theoretically investigated by performing numerical simulations. The energy landscape of the system is explored by determining saddle points, adjacent local minima, energy barriers, and the associated minimum energy paths (MEPs) as functions of the structural disorder and particle density. The changes in the magnetic order of the nanostructure along the MEPs connecting adjacent minima are analyzed from a local perspective. In particular, we determine the extension of the correlated region where the directions of the particle magnetic moments vary significantly. It is shown that with increasing degree of disorder the magnetic correlation range decreases, i.e., the elementary relaxation processes become more localized. The distribution of the energy barriers, and their relation to the changes in the magnetic configurations are quantified. Finally, some implications for the long-time magnetic relaxation dynamics of nanostructures are discussed.
Jensen P. J.
Pastor G. M.
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