Equilibrium and non-equilibrium properties of synthetic metamagnetic films: A Monte Carlo study
arXiv:1407.5109 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.90.014438
Abstract
Synthetic antiferromagnets with strong perpendicular anisotropy can be modeled by layered Ising antiferromagnets. Accounting for the fact that in the experimental systems the ferromagnetic layers, coupled antiferromagnetically via spacers, are multilayers, we propose a description through Ising films where ferromagnetic stacks composed of multiple layers are coupled antiferromagnetically. We study the equilibrium and non-equilibrium properties of these systems where we vary the number of layers in each stack. Using numerical simulations, we construct equilibrium temperaturemagnetic field phase diagrams for a variety of cases. We find the same dominant features (three stable phases, where one phase boundary ends in a critical end point, whereas the other phase boundary shows a tricritical point at which the transition changes from first to second order) for all studied cases. Using time-dependent quantities, we also study the ordering processes that take place after a temperature quench. The nature of long-lived metastable states are discussed for thin films, whereas for thick films we compute the surface autocorrelation exponent.
arXiv comment23 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in the Physical Review B
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