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- Title
Magnetisation Processes in Geometrically Frustrated Spin Networks with Self-Assembled Cliques.
- Authors
Tadić, Bosiljka; Andjelković, Miroslav; Šuvakov, Milovan; Rodgers, Geoff J.
- Abstract
Functional designs of nanostructured materials seek to exploit the potential of complex morphologies and disorder. In this context, the spin dynamics in disordered antiferromagnetic materials present a significant challenge due to induced geometric frustration. Here we analyse the processes of magnetisation reversal driven by an external field in generalised spin networks with higher-order connectivity and antiferromagnetic defects. Using the model in (Tadić et al. Arxiv:1912.02433), we grow nanonetworks with geometrically constrained self-assemblies of simplexes (cliques) of a given size n, and with probability p each simplex possesses a defect edge affecting its binding, leading to a tree-like pattern of defects. The Ising spins are attached to vertices and have ferromagnetic interactions, while antiferromagnetic couplings apply between pairs of spins along each defect edge. Thus, a defect edge induces n − 2 frustrated triangles per n-clique participating in a larger-scale complex. We determine several topological, entropic, and graph-theoretic measures to characterise the structures of these assemblies. Further, we show how the sizes of simplexes building the aggregates with a given pattern of defects affects the magnetisation curves, the length of the domain walls and the shape of the hysteresis loop. The hysteresis shows a sequence of plateaus of fractional magnetisation and multiscale fluctuations in the passage between them. For fully antiferromagnetic interactions, the loop splits into two parts only in mono-disperse assemblies of cliques consisting of an odd number of vertices n. At the same time, remnant magnetisation occurs when n is even, and in poly-disperse assemblies of cliques in the range n ∈ [ 2 , 10 ] . These results shed light on spin dynamics in complex nanomagnetic assemblies in which geometric frustration arises in the interplay of higher-order connectivity and antiferromagnetic interactions.
- Subjects
ANTIFERROMAGNETIC materials; HYSTERESIS loop; ODD numbers; DOMAIN walls (Ferromagnetism); NANOSTRUCTURED materials; MAGNETIZATION reversal
- Publication
Entropy, 2020, Vol 22, Issue 3, p336
- ISSN
1099-4300
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/e22030336