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Dynamics of two interacting dipoles

  • D. Laroze
  • , P. Vargas
  • , C. Cortes
  • , G. Gutierrez
  • Universidad de Chile
  • Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso
  • Universidad Técnica Federico Santa Maria
  • Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
  • Centro de Estudios Nucleares La Reina

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Abstract

We study the deterministic spin dynamic of two interacting magnetic moments with anisotropy and dipolar interaction under the presence of an applied magnetic field, by using the Landau-Lifshitz equation with and without a damping term. Due to different kinds of interactions, different time scales appear: a long time scale associated with the dipolar interaction and a short time scale associated with the Zeeman interaction. We found that the total magnetization is not conserved; furthermore, for the non-dissipative case it is a fluctuating function of time, with a strong dependence on the strength of the dipolar term. In the dissipative case there is a transient time before the total magnetization reaches its constant value. We examine this critical time as a function of the distance between the magnetic moments and the phenomenological damping coefficient, and found that it strongly depends on these control parameters.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1440-1448
Number of pages9
JournalJournal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
Volume320
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2008
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Dipolar interaction
  • Non-uniform magnetization field
  • Spin dynamics

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