Effects of random fields on the reversal of magnetisation of Ising ferromagnet

Moumita Naskar and Muktish Acharyya

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2020, vol. 551, issue C

Abstract: We have studied the reversal time of the magnetisation in two dimensional Ising ferromagnet in the presence of externally applied uniform magnetic field using Monte Carlo simulation based on Metropolis single spin flip algorithm. Then we have investigated the change in reversal time due to the presence of quenched random field in addition to the uniform magnetic field. We report the results of statistical distribution of reversal times in the presence of three different types of the distributions (namely, uniform, bimodal and normal) of random fields and compared the results with those obtained for uniform field only. We have observed that the reversal time decreases due to the presence of any kind (of distribution) of the random fields. The metastable volume fraction is observed to follow the Avrami’s law. Dependence of reversal times on temperature and different widths of the distributions of random fields are also reported. We have also checked whether the system obeyed Becker–Döring theory of classical nucleation in presence of additional random field and tried to investigate the range of the width of the distribution of random field. For larger width of the distribution of random field, the system fails to show the reversal via the nucleation of a single droplet (for small values of uniform field only). The possible reason is analysed.

Keywords: Ising ferromagnet; Monte Carlo simulation; Metropolis single spin flip algorithm; Quenched disorder; Classical nucleation theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2020.124583

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