77 research outputs found
Two-dimensional behavior of the sublattice magnetization in three-dimensional Ising antiferromagnets
A three-dimensional layered Ising-Antiferromagnet with a ferromagnetic
intra-layer coupling to z neighbors, zJ > 0, and an antiferromagnetic
interlayer coupling to z' neighbors, z'J' < 0, is investigated by Monte Carlo
simulations on a hexagonal lattice. The physical nature of the anomalous
temperature bahavior of the sublattice magnetizations, which is found for
certain values of r=zJ/z'J' and z' in magnetic fields is explained in terms of
successive phase transitions. They take place on the ferromagnetic
2-dimensional spin-down sublattice at T = T_c^{2d}, smeared by a finite
stabilizing molecular field, and on both antiferromagnetically coupled
sublattices at T_c^{3d} > T_c^{2d}.Comment: 8 pages (TeX), 6 figures (eps), submitted to World Scientific:
Proceedings SDHS'99 Duisbur
Near-room-temperature refrigeration through voltage-controlled entropy change in multiferroics
Composite materials with large magnetoelectric effect are proposed for application in advanced near-room-temperature refrigeration. The key innovation rests on utilizing the magnetocaloric effect in zero applied magnetic fields. This approach promises sizable isothermal entropy change and virtually temperature-independent refrigerant capacity through pure voltage-control. It is in sharp contrast with the conventional method of exploiting the magnetocaloric effect through applied magnetic fields. We outline the thermodynamics and estimate an isothermal entropy change specifically for the La0.7Sr0.3MnO3/Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-PbTiO3(001) two-phase composite material. Finally, we propose structural variations of two-phase composites, which help in overcoming the challenging task of producing nanostructured material in macroscopic quantities
Ising metamagnets in thin film geometry: equilibrium properties
Artificial antiferromagnets and synthetic metamagnets have attracted much
attention recently due to their potential for many different applications.
Under some simplifying assumptions these systems can be modeled by thin Ising
metamagnetic films. In this paper we study, using both the Wang/Landau scheme
and importance sampling Monte Carlo simulations, the equilibrium properties of
these films. On the one hand we discuss the microcanonical density of states
and its prominent features. On the other we analyze canonically various global
and layer quantities. We obtain the phase diagram of thin Ising metamagnets as
a function of temperature and external magnetic field. Whereas the phase
diagram of the bulk system only exhibits one phase transition between the
antiferromagnetic and paramagnetic phases, the phase diagram of thin Ising
metamagnets includes an additional intermediate phase where one of the surface
layers has aligned itself with the direction of the applied magnetic field.
This additional phase transition is discontinuous and ends in a critical end
point. Consequently, it is possible to gradually go from the antiferromagnetic
phase to the intermediate phase without passing through a phase transition.Comment: 8 figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review
Spin relaxation time dependence on optical pumping intensity in GaAs:Mn
We analyze the dependence of electron spin relaxation time on optical pumping intensity in a partially compensated acceptor semiconductor GaAs:Mn using analytic solutions for the kinetic equations of the charge carrier concentrations. Our results are applied to previous experimental data of spin-relaxation time vs. excitation power for magnetic concentrations of approximately 1017 cm-3 . The agreement of our analytic solutions with the experimental data supports the mechanism of the earlier-reported atypically long electron-spin relaxation time in the magnetic semiconductor
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