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Comment on "Memory Effects in an Interacting Magnetic Nanoparticle System"
In Phys. Rev. Lett. 91 167206 (2003), Sun et al. study memory effects in an
interacting nanoparticle system with specific temperature and field protocols.
The authors claim that the observed memory effects originate from spin-glass
dynamics and that the results are consistent with the hierarchical picture of
the spin-glass phase. In this comment, we argue their claims premature by
demonstrating that all their experimental curves can be reproduced
qualitatively using only a simplified model of isolated nanoparticles with a
temperature dependent distribution of relaxation times.Comment: 1 page, 2 figures, slightly changed content, the parameters involved
in Figs. 1 and 2 are changed a little for a semi-quantitative comparision
with experimental result
Critical dynamics of an interacting magnetic nanoparticle system
Effects of dipole-dipole interactions on the magnetic relaxation have been
investigated for three Fe-C nanoparticle samples with volume concentrations of
0.06, 5 and 17 vol%. While both the 5 and 17 vol% samples exhibit collective
behavior due to dipolar interactions, only the 17 vol% sample displays critical
behavior close to its transition temperature. The behaviour of the 5 vol%
sample can be attributed to a mixture of collective and single particle
dynamics.Comment: 19 pages, 8 figure
Temperature Chaos and Bond Chaos in the Edwards-Anderson Ising Spin Glass : Domain-Wall Free-Energy Measurements
Domain-wall free-energy , entropy , and the correlation
function, , of are measured independently in the
four-dimensional Edwards-Anderson (EA) Ising spin glass. The stiffness
exponent , the fractal dimension of domain walls and the
chaos exponent are extracted from the finite-size scaling analysis of
, and respectively well inside the
spin-glass phase. The three exponents are confirmed to satisfy the scaling
relation derived by the droplet theory within our
numerical accuracy. We also study bond chaos induced by random variation of
bonds, and find that the bond and temperature perturbations yield the universal
chaos effects described by a common scaling function and the chaos exponent.
These results strongly support the appropriateness of the droplet theory for
the description of chaos effect in the EA Ising spin glasses.Comment: 4 pages, 6 figures; The title, the abstract and the text are changed
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Temperature and Disorder Chaos in Three-Dimensional Ising Spin Glasses
We study the effects of small temperature as well as disorder perturbations
on the equilibrium state of three-dimensional Ising spin glasses via an
alternate scaling ansatz. By using Monte Carlo simulations, we show that
temperature and disorder perturbations yield chaotic changes in the equilibrium
state and that temperature chaos is considerably harder to observe than
disorder chaos.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, 1 tabl
Symmetrical Temperature-Chaos Effect with Positive and Negative Temperature Shifts in a Spin Glass
The aging in a Heisenberg-like spin glass Ag(11 at% Mn) is investigated by
measurements of the zero field cooled magnetic relaxation at a constant
temperature after small temperature shifts . A
crossover from fully accumulative to non-accumulative aging is observed, and by
converting time scales to length scales using the logarithmic growth law of the
droplet model, we find a quantitative evidence that positive and negative
temperature shifts cause an equivalent restart of aging (rejuvenation) in terms
of dynamical length scales. This result supports the existence of a unique
overlap length between a pair of equilibrium states in the spin glass system.Comment: 4 page
Memory and rejuvenation in a spin glass
The temperature dependence of the magnetisation of a Cu(Mn) spin glass (
57 K) has been investigated using weak probing magnetic fields ( =
0.5 or 0 Oe) and specific thermal protocols. The behaviour of the zero-field
cooled, thermoremanent and isothermal remanent magnetisation on (re-)cooling
the system from a temperature (40 K) where the system has been aged is
investigated. It is observed that the measured magnetisation is formed by two
parts: (i) a temperature- and observation time-dependent thermally activated
relaxational part governed by the age- and temperature-dependent response
function and the (latest) field change made at a lower temperature, superposed
on (ii) a weakly temperature-dependent frozen-in part. Interestingly we observe
that the spin configuration that is imprinted during an elongated halt in the
cooling, if it is accompanied by a field induced magnetisation, also includes a
unidirectional excess magnetisation that is recovered on returning to the
ageing temperature.Comment: EPL style; 7 pages, 5 figure
Non-equilibrium dynamics in an interacting nanoparticle system
Non-equilibrium dynamics in an interacting Fe-C nanoparticle sample,
exhibiting a low temperature spin glass like phase, has been studied by low
frequency ac-susceptibility and magnetic relaxation experiments. The
non-equilibrium behavior shows characteristic spin glass features, but some
qualitative differences exist. The nature of these differences is discussed.Comment: 7 pages, 11 figure
Thermally induced magnetic relaxation in square artificial spin ice
The properties of natural and artificial assemblies of interacting elements,
ranging from Quarks to Galaxies, are at the heart of Physics. The collective
response and dynamics of such assemblies are dictated by the intrinsic
dynamical properties of the building blocks, the nature of their interactions
and topological constraints. Here we report on the relaxation dynamics of the
magnetization of artificial assemblies of mesoscopic spins. In our model
nano-magnetic system - square artificial spin ice - we are able to control the
geometrical arrangement and interaction strength between the magnetically
interacting building blocks by means of nano-lithography. Using time resolved
magnetometry we show that the relaxation process can be described using the
Kohlrausch law and that the extracted temperature dependent relaxation times of
the assemblies follow the Vogel-Fulcher law. The results provide insight into
the relaxation dynamics of mesoscopic nano-magnetic model systems, with
adjustable energy and time scales, and demonstrates that these can serve as an
ideal playground for the studies of collective dynamics and relaxations.Comment: 15 pages, 5 figure
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