64 research outputs found
On the existence conditions of surface spin wave modes in (Ga,Mn)As thin films
Spin-wave resonance (SWR) is a newly emerged method for studying surface
magnetic anisotropy and surface spin-wave modes (SSWMs) in (Ga,Mn)As thin
films. The existence of SSWMs in (Ga,Mn)As thin films has recently been
reported in the literature; SSWMs have been observed in the in-plane
configuration (with variable azimuth angle between the in-plane
magnetization of the film and the surface [100] crystal axis), in the azimuth
angle range between two in-plane critical angles and .
We show here that cubic surface anisotropy is an essential factor determining
the existence conditions of the above-mentioned SSWMs: conditions favorable for
the occurrence of surface spin-wave modes in a (Ga,Mn)As thin film in the
in-plane configuration are fulfilled for those azimuth orientations of the
magnetization of the sample that lie around the hard axes of cubic magnetic
anisotropy. This implies that a hard cubic anisotropy axis can be regarded in
(Ga,Mn)As thin films as an easy axis for surface spin pinning
A Monte Carlo study of critical properties of strongly diluted magnetic semiconductor (Ga,Mn)As
Within a Monte Carlo technique we examine critical properties of diluted bulk
magnetic semiconductor (Ga,Mn)As modeled by a strongly diluted ferromagnetic
Heisenberg spin- system on a face centered cubic lattice. We
assumed that 5\% of Ga atoms is substituted by Mn atoms and the interaction
between them is of the RKKY-type. The considered system is randomly quenched
and a double average was performed: firstly, over the Boltzmann probability
distribution and secondly - over 2048 configurations related to the quenched
disorder. We estimated the critical temperature: K, which is in
agreement with the experiment. The calculated high value of critical exponent
seems to point to a possibility of non-universal critical behavior.Comment: 4 pages, 6 figure
Re-orientation Transition in Molecular Thin Films: Potts Model with Dipolar Interaction
We study the low-temperature behavior and the phase transition of a thin film
by Monte Carlo simulation. The thin film has a simple cubic lattice structure
where each site is occupied by a Potts parameter which indicates the molecular
orientation of the site. We take only three molecular orientations in this
paper which correspond to the 3-state Potts model. The Hamiltonian of the
system includes: (i) the exchange interaction between nearest-neighbor
sites and (ii) the long-range dipolar interaction of amplitude
truncated at a cutoff distance (iii) a single-ion perpendicular
anisotropy of amplitude . We allow between surface spins, and
otherwise. We show that the ground state depends on the the ratio
and . For a single layer, for a given , there is a critical value
below (above) which the ground-state (GS) configuration of molecular axes
is perpendicular (parallel) to the film surface. When the temperature is
increased, a re-orientation transition occurs near : the low- in-plane
ordering undergoes a transition to the perpendicular ordering at a finite ,
below the transition to the paramagnetic phase. The same phenomenon is observed
in the case of a film with a thickness. We show that the surface phase
transition can occur below or above the bulk transition depending on the ratio
. Surface and bulk order parameters as well as other physical quantities
are shown and discussed.Comment: 7 pages, 11 figures, submitted for publicatio
Magnonic Crystal Theory of the Spin-Wave Frequency Gap in Low-Doped Manganites
A theory of three-dimensional (3D) hypothetical magnonic crystal (conceived
as the magnetic counterpart of the well-known photonic crystal) is developed
and applied to explain the existence of a spin-wave frequency gap recently
revealed in low-doped manganites by neutron scattering.
A successful confrontation with the experimental results allows us to formulate
a working hypothesis that certain manganites could be regarded as 3D magnonic
crystals existing in nature.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, submitted to PR
Localization Properties of Quantized Magnetostatic Modes in Nanocubes
We investigate the dynamical properties of a system of interacting magnetic
dipoles disposed in sites of an sc lattice and forming a cubic-shaped sample of
size determined by the cube edge length (N-1)a (a being the lattice constant, N
representing the number of dipolar planes). The dipolar field resulting from
the dipole-dipole interactions is calculated numerically in points of the axis
connecting opposite cube face centers (central axis) by collecting individual
contributions to this field coming from each of the N atomic planes
perpendicular to the central axis. The applied magnetic field is assumed to be
oriented along the central axis, magnetizing uniformly the whole sample, all
the dipoles being aligned parallelly in the direction of the applied field. The
frequency spectrum of magnetostatic waves propagating in the direction of the
applied field is found numerically by solving the Landau-Lifshitz equation of
motion including the local (nonhomogeneous) dipolar field component; the mode
amplitude spatial distributions (mode profiles) are depicted as well. It is
found that only the two energetically highest modes have bulk-extended
character. All the remaining modes are of localized nature; more precisely, the
modes forming the lower part of the spectrum are localized in the subsurface
region, while the upper-spectrum modes are localized around the sample center.
We show that the mode localization regions narrow down as the cube size, N,
increases (we investigated the range of N=21 to N=101), and in sufficiently
large cubes one obtains practically only center-localized and surface-localized
magnetostatic modes.Comment: 20 pages, 9 figures in postscript, useing Revtex4.cl
Wave modes of collective vortex gyration in dipolar-coupled-dot-array magnonic crystals
Lattice vibration modes are collective excitations in periodic arrays of atoms or molecules. These modes determine novel transport properties in solid crystals. Analogously, in periodical arrangements of magnetic vortex-state disks, collective vortex motions have been predicted. Here, we experimentally observe wave modes of collective vortex gyration in one-dimensional (1D) periodic arrays of magnetic disks using time-resolved scanning transmission x-ray microscopy. The observed modes are interpreted based on micromagnetic simulation and numerical calculation of coupled Thiele equations. Dispersion of the modes is found to be strongly affected by both vortex polarization and chirality ordering, as revealed by the explicit analytical form of 1D infinite arrays. A thorough understanding thereof is fundamental both for lattice vibrations and vortex dynamics, which we demonstrate for 1D magnonic crystals. Such magnetic disk arrays with vortex-state ordering, referred to as magnetic metastructure, offer potential implementation into information processing devices.open8
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