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Condensed Matter > Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Title: Micromagnetic simulations of the size dependence of the Curie temperature in ferromagnetic nanowires and nanolayers

Abstract: We solve the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation in the finite-temperature regime, where thermal fluctuations are modeled by a random magnetic field whose variance is proportional to the temperature. By rescaling the temperature proportionally to the computational cell size $\Delta x$ ($T \to T\,\Delta x/a_{\text{eff}}$, where $a_{\text{eff}}$ is the lattice constant) [M. B. Hahn, J. Phys. Comm., 3:075009, 2019], we obtain Curie temperatures $T_{\text{C}}$ that are in line with the experimental values for cobalt, iron and nickel. For finite-sized objects such as nanowires (1D) and nanolayers (2D), the Curie temperature varies with the smallest size $d$ of the system. We show that the difference between the computed finite-size $T_{\text{C}}$ and the bulk $T_{\text{C}}$ follows a power-law of the type: $(\xi_0/d)^\lambda$, where $\xi_0$ is the correlation length at zero temperature, and $\lambda$ is a critical exponent. We obtain values of $\xi_0$ in the nanometer range, also in accordance with other simulations and experiments. The computed critical exponent is close to $\lambda=2$ for all considered materials and geometries. This is the expected result for a mean-field approach, but slightly larger than the values observed experimentally.
Comments: 28 pages
Subjects: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall); Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
Journal reference: Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 598 (2024) 172040
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmmm.2024.172040
Cite as: arXiv:2401.05722 [cond-mat.mes-hall]
  (or arXiv:2401.05722v2 [cond-mat.mes-hall] for this version)

Submission history

From: Clémentine Courtès [view email]
[v1] Thu, 11 Jan 2024 07:57:14 GMT (2196kb,D)
[v2] Thu, 25 Apr 2024 10:10:46 GMT (2203kb,D)

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