Friday, 24 February 2012

Plasmon bleaching in Au/FeO dumbbells

Plasmon Bleaching Dynamics in Colloidal Gold−Iron Oxide Nanocrystal Heterodimers.
Alberto Comin, Kseniya Korobchevskaya, Chandramohan George, Alberto Diaspro, and Liberato Manna
Nano Letters 12, 921 (2012)
Transient absorption spectrum, measured at 110 μJ/cm2, of gold only and gold/FeO nanocrystals with, overlaid, three black traces corresponding to the positions of the maxima and of the zeros.

Thursday, 23 February 2012

Finite-size effects on manganite NPs

Nanometer Size Effect on Magnetic Properties of Sm0.8Ca0.2MnO3 Nanoparticles.
Vladimir Markovich, Ivan Fita, Andrzej Wisniewski, Roman Puzniak, Dmitrii Mogilyansky, Przemyslaw Iwanowski, Piotr Dluzewski, and Gad Gorodetsky
J. Phys. Chem. C 116, 435 (2012)
(a,b) Magnetic field dependences of magnetization of SCMO23 and SCMO100 samples at T = 10 K measured after FC. Insets show a low field part of hysteresis loops on the extended scale. (c) Size dependence of spontaneous magnetization M0 and magnetization MS in H = 15 kOe at T = 10 K. (d) Coercive field of SCMO samples as a function of the particle size. Solid line is linear fit to the expression HC = a + b/D.

Oedering in Kagomé and squared spins ice

Multi-step ordering in kagome and square artificial spin ice.
C J Olson Reichhardt, A Libál and C Reichhardt
New Journal of Physics 14, 025006 (2012)
Black circles: particle locations; open ellipses: trap locations for a 20a0 ×20a0 section of a kagome ice sample. Colored circles indicate vertex types: N0 (blue), N1 (green), N2 (yellow) and N3 (red). (a) The positive biased ice-rule-obeying state. (b) The monopole state consisting of an ordered lattice of N0 and N3 vertices. (c) A finite-temperature ice-rule-obeying nonbiased state. (d) A high-temperature paramagnetic state where the vertex types are uncorrelated.

Core/Shell cobaltate NPs and low field MR

Low-Field Magnetoresistance Effect in Core–Shell Structured La 0.7 Sr 0.3 CoO 3 Nanoparticles.
Yang Wang and Hong Jin Fan
Small Early view (2012)
Logarithmic conductance as a function of T ^1/2 for the core–shell nanoparticles. Inset: sketch of the spin-polarized tunneling between two neighboring core–shell particles where the shells act as a tunneling barrier.

Biomedical Nanomagnetics: A Review

Excellent review article dedicated to biomedical applications of nanoparticles. Kannan Krishnnan has been awarded a IEEE prize for the article: congratulations!

Biomedical Nanomagnetics: A Spin Through Possibilities in Imaging, Diagnostics, and Therapy
Kannan M. Krishnan
IEEE Trans Magn. 46, 2523 (2010)

Size effect on manganite NP

Nanometer Size Effect on Magnetic Properties of Sm0.8Ca0.2MnO3 Nanoparticles.
Vladimir Markovich, Ivan Fita, Andrzej Wisniewski, Roman Puzniak, Dmitrii Mogilyansky, Przemyslaw Iwanowski, Piotr Dluzewski, and Gad Gorodetsky
J. Phys. Chem. 116, 435 (2012)
(a-d) Temperature dependence of real component of ac susceptibility (χ0) measured during heating at different frequencies and magnetic ac field of 10 Oe for SCMO samples. Insets show the imaginary part (χ00) of ac susceptibility measured at different frequencies and magnetic ac field of 10 Oe.

Wednesday, 22 February 2012

Magnetic Hyperthermia of NP

 Some recent articles about modeling of hyperthermia in magnetic nanoparticle systems:

1) Role of dipole-dipole interactions for hyperthermia heating of magnetic nanoparticle ensembles.
C. Haase and U. Nowak
Phys. Rev. B 85, 045435 (2012)
Heating power per sample volume Ac vs
particle concentration c. Systems with different spatial distributions
(regular simple cubic and hexagonal structures as well as random
repellent and free particles) are compared. In all cases an optimal
density exists.


















Tuesday, 21 February 2012

Laser induced demagnetization at high T

Theory of laser-induced demagnetization at high temperatures.
A. Manchon, Q. Li, L. Xu, and S. Zhang
Phys. Rev. B 85, 064408 (2012)
Time evolution of three-temperature model for a large laser-fluence case Te(0) = 1.6. The critical slowing down
of the spin system is identified as the plateau in the figure. The inset defines a slowdown time τd . The smaller inset shows the magnified region in the vicinity of the maximum temperature.

Friday, 17 February 2012

Assymetric MR in EB bilayers

Asymmetric magnetoresistance in an exchange bias Co/CoO bilayer.
Sarbeswar Sahoo, Srinivas Polisetty, Yi Wang, Tathagata Mukherjee, Xi He, Sitaram S Jaswal and Christian Binek
J. Phys.CM 24, 096002 (2012)
Selected magnetoresistance curves with the external field H oriented parallel to the current I measured after cooling in a
field of 0H D 0:2 T from 320 K to the respective temperatures. The lines are the best fits according to equation (4).

Wednesday, 15 February 2012

Size dependence of Exchange Bias

Size Dependence of Exchange Bias in Co/CoO Nanostructures
Sara Laureti, Sarah Y. Suck, Helge Haas, Eric Prestat, Olivier Bourgeois, and Dominique Givord

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 077205 (2012)
Temperature dependence of Heb in Co/CoO/Au samples measured for the three nanostructure sizes S (squares), M (dots), and L (triangles).

DW magnetoresistance contrinutions by multiscale simulations

Disentangling the Physical Contributions to the Electrical Resistance in Magnetic DomainWalls: A Multiscale Study.
K. M. Seemann, F. Garcia-Sanchez, F. Kronast, J. Miguel, A. Kákay, C. M. Schneider, and R. Hertel, F. Freimuth, Y. Mokrousov, and S. Blügel
Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 077201 (2012)
XMCD photoelectron emission microscopy asymmetry images of L10-ordered FePd (a) and FePt (b) taken at the Fe
L3-absorption edge for the demagnetized domain state at room temperature and in zero magnetic field. The insets to the upper right corner show the result of micromagnetic simulations.

Thursday, 9 February 2012

FM frustrated system in squared lattice

Ferromagnetic frustrated spin systems on the square lattice: Schwinger boson study.
H. Feldner, D. C. Cabra, and G. L. Rossini
Phys. Rev. B 84, 214406 (2011)
Classical phase diagram. F, ferromagnetic phase; CAF, collinear antiferromagnetic phase; CH, collinear helicoidal phase; H, helicoidal phase.

Quantum spin ice II

Quantum Ice: A Quantum Monte Carlo Study.
Nic Shannon, Olga Sikora, Frank Pollmann, Karlo Penc, and Peter Fulde
Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 067204 (2012)
The ice configuration possessing the most flippable plaquettes is the squiggle state, shown here within a 40-site tetragonal cell. Arrows show the displacement of protons within Ic water ice or, equivalently, the orientation of spins in spin ice. The squiggle state possesses a net magnetic flux, orientated along a [100] axis.

Meron-like magnetic order in coupled discs

Direct Observation of Unconventional Topological Spin Structure in Coupled Magnetic Discs.
C. Phatak, A. K. Petford-Long, and O. Heinonen
Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 067205 (2012)
(a) Schematic showing the spin structure of a meronlike state with opposite chirality; (b) schematic showing the trilayer discs and direction of the electron beam for imaging, and (c) LTEM under-focus image, and (d) reconstructed magnetic induction color map.

Monte Carlo simulation of Fe pnictides

Phase transitions in spin-orbital models with spin-space anisotropies for iron pnictides: Monte Carlo simulations.
Ryan Applegate and Rajiv R. P. Singh, Cheng-Chien Chen and Thomas P. Devereaux
Phys. Rev. B 85, 054411 (2012)
Phenomenological phase diagram for the spin-orbital model. The exchange energy scale in the problem sets the transition
temperature TO for orbital order, which in turn drives the structural transition. eps_0 is the energy scale below which long-wavelength fluctuations are suppressed. There are two separate continuous orbital
and magnetic transitions for eps<<eps_0 (shown as dotted and dashed lines, respectively) and one simultaneous first-order transition for eps>>eps_0 (shown as a solid line).

Ultrafast heating for magnetization reversal

Ultrafast heating as a sufficient stimulus for magnetization reversal in a ferrimagnet.
T.A. Ostler, J. Barker, R.F.L. Evans, R.W. Chantrell, U. Atxitia, O. Chubykalo-Fesenko, S.El Moussaoui,L. Le Guyader, E. Mengotti, L.J. Heyderman, F. Nolting, A. Tsukamoto, A. Itoh, D. Afanasiev, B.A. Ivanov, A.M. Kalashnikova, K. Vahaplar, J. Mentink, A. Kirilyuk, Th. Rasing & A.V. Kimel
Nature Comms. 3, 666 (2012)

The magneto-optical images of a Gd24Fe66.5Co9.5 continuous film obtained after the action of a sequence of N 100 fs laser pulses.

Tuesday, 7 February 2012

Triangular lattice AF realized experimentally

Experimental Realization of a Spin-1=2 Triangular-Lattice Heisenberg Antiferromagnet
Yutaka Shirata,1 Hidekazu Tanaka,1 Akira Matsuo,2 and Koichi Kindo
Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 057205 (2012)
Crystal structure of Ba3CoSb2O9. The blue single octahedron is a CoO6 octahedron with a Co2+ ion at
the center, and the face-sharing Sb2O9 double octahedron is shaded ochre. Magnetic Co2þ ions form a regular triangular
lattice in the ab plane. Dotted lines denote the chemical unit cell.

Damping ans moment of inertia effects in 1st principles calculations

Atomistic Spin Dynamic Method with both Damping and Moment of Inertia Effects Included from First Principles.
Satadeep Bhattacharjee, Lars Nordström, and Jonas Fransson
Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 057204 (2012)

The three contributions in the generalized LLG equation, the bare precession arising from the effective magnetic field, and the superimposed effects from the Gilbert damping and the moment of inertia.

Ultrafast reversal

Ultrafast Spin Dynamics in Multisublattice Magnets.
J. H. Mentink, J. Hellsvik, D.V. Afanasiev, B. A. Ivanov, A. Kirilyuk, A.V. Kimel, O. Eriksson, M. I. Katsnelson, and Th. Rasing
Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 057202 (2012)

Atomistic spin dynamics simulation of laser-induced spin dynamics of a model GdFe system with either AFM or FM sublattice coupling. The spin dynamics of Gd is shown as function of the spin dynamics of Fe.

Spin and orbital moments in Fe clusters

Spin Coupling and Orbital Angular Momentum Quenching in Free Iron Clusters.
M. Niemeyer,1,2 K. Hirsch,1,2 V. Zamudio-Bayer,1,2 A. Langenberg,1,2 M. Vogel,1 M. Kossick,1,2 C. Ebrecht, K. Egashira,3 A. Terasaki,4,5 T. Mo¨ ller,2 B. v. Issendorff,6 and J. T. Lau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 057201 (2012)
 Relative spin (filled circles) and orbital (open circles) magnetic moments of Fe+ n clusters normalized to the atomic values (muS= 4 muB and muL= 2 muB). While the spin moment remains at 60%–90%, the orbital value is strongly reduced already for Fe3+ .

Wednesday, 1 February 2012

DW on ferroelectrics

Dynamics of charged domain walls in ferroelectrics.
M. Y. Gureev, P. Mokrý, A. K. Tagantsev, and N. Setter
ArXiv 1201.6331 (2012)

Zig-zag wall in a parallel plate capacitor. The pressure acting on each segment leads to non-zero force acting on the wall (a).

Nanooscillator characterized by MRFM

Quantitative MRFM characterization of the autonomous and forced dynamics in a spin transfer nano-oscillator.
A. Hamadeh, G. de Loubens, V.V. Naletov, J. Grollier, C. Ulysse, V. Cros, and O. Klein
ArXiv 1201.6344 (2012)

Phase diagram of the STNO autonomous dynamics measured by MRFM.

Tuesday, 31 January 2012

Thermoelectric effects in spintronics

Magnon-drag thermopile.
Marius V. Costache, German Bridoux, Ingmar Neumann, and Sergio O. Valenzuela
Nature Mater. 11, 199 (2012)

Magnon-drag detection principle and geometry of the device.

Monday, 30 January 2012

Dynamics in frozen state of spin ice

Spin dynamics in the frozen state of the dipolar spin ice material Dy2Ti2O7.
L. R. Yaraskavitch, H. M. Revell, S. Meng, K. A. Ross, H. M. L. Noad, H. A. Dabkowska,
B. D. Gaulin, and J. B. Kycia

Phys. Rev. B 85, 020410(R) (2012)

Compilation of the ac susceptibility frequency scans of Dy2Ti2O7 and Ho2Ti2O7. An Arrhenius fit to the
low-temperature Dy2Ti2O7 relaxation is shown, along with a 6J_DTO_eff Arrhenius law with arbitrary frequency scaling.

Saturday, 28 January 2012

Resistivity of individual DW

Tunable Resistivity of Individual Magnetic DomainWalls.
J. H. Franken, M. Hoeijmakers, H. J. M. Swagten, and B. Koopmans
PRL 108, 037205 (2012)
(a) Resistance change Delta R due to 20DWs in a Pt=Co=Pt strip as a function of Ga dose.
(b) Perpendicular anisotropy as a function of Ga dose. The red line is an exponential fit. (c) Normalized DW resistivity as a function of anisotropy. The red line is the theoretical result of the Levy-Zhang model . The same data are plotted in (d) as a function of DW width, showing the 1=Delta^2 dependence.