Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2001-09-21
Physical Review B 66 (2002) 174419
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
12 pages, 15 eps figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.66.174419
We study the influence of surface anisotropy on the zero-temperature hysteretic properties of a small single-domain magnetic particle, and give an estimation of the anisotropy constant for which deviations from the Stoner-Wohlfarth model are observed due to non-uniform reversal of the particle's magnetisation. For this purpose, we consider a spherical particle with simple cubic crystalline structure, a uniaxial anisotropy for core spins and radial anisotropy on the surface. The hysteresis loop is obtained by solving the local (coupled) Landau-Lifschitz equations for classical spin vectors. We find that when the surface anisotropy constant is at least of the order of the exchange coupling, large deviations are observed with respect to the Stoner-Wohlfarth model in the hysteresis loop and thereby the limit-of-metastability curve, since in this case the magnetisation reverses its direction in a non-uniform manner via a progressive switching of spin clusters. In this case the critical field, as a function of the particle's size, behaves as observed in experiments.
Dimian M.
Kachkachi Hamid
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