Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
1998-05-05
Phys. Rev. B 55, 3050 (1997)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
9 pages, no figures, a small error corrected
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.55.3050
A macroscopic equation of motion for the magnetization of a ferromagnet at elevated temperatures should contain both transverse and longitudinal relaxation terms and interpolate between Landau-Lifshitz equation at low temperatures and the Bloch equation at high temperatures. It is shown that for the classical model where spin-bath interactions are described by stochastic Langevin fields and spin-spin interactions are treated within the mean-field approximation (MFA), such a ``Landau-Lifshitz-Bloch'' (LLB) equation can be derived exactly from the Fokker-Planck equation, if the external conditions change slowly enough. For weakly anisotropic ferromagnets within the MFA the LLB equation can be written in a macroscopic form based on the free-energy functional interpolating between the Landau free energy near T_C and the ``micromagnetic'' free energy, which neglects changes of the magnetization magnitude |{\bf M}|, at low temperatures.
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