Metastable states in the triangular-lattice Ising model studied by Monte Carlo simulations: Application to the spin-chain compound Ca[subscript 3]Co[subscript 2]O[subscript 6]
It is well known that the spin-chain compound Ca[subscript 3]Co[subscript 2]O[subscript 6] exhibits interesting plateaus in the magnetization as a function of the magnetic field at low temperatures. The origin of them is still controversial. In this paper, we study the thermal behavior of this compo...
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| author | Soto, R. Martinez, G. Baibich, M. N. Florez Uribe, Juan Manuel Vargas, P. |
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| description | It is well known that the spin-chain compound Ca[subscript 3]Co[subscript 2]O[subscript 6] exhibits interesting plateaus in the magnetization as a function of the magnetic field at low temperatures. The origin of them is still controversial. In this paper, we study the thermal behavior of this compound with a single-flip Monte Carlo simulation on a triangular lattice and demonstrate the decisive influence of metastable states on the splitting of the ferrimagnetic 1/3 plateau below 10 K. We consider the [Co2O6]n chains as giant magnetic moments described by large Ising spins on planar clusters with open boundary conditions. With this simple frozen-moments model we obtain stepped magnetization curves which agree quite well with the experimental results for different sweeping rates. We describe particularly the out-of-equilibrium states that split the low-temperature 1/3 plateau into three steps. They relax thermally to the 1/3 plateau, which has long-range order at equilibrium. Such metastable states are further analyzed with snapshots unveiling an interlinked mobile domain walls structure that is responsible for the observed behavior of the 1/3 plateau. A comparison is also given of our classical Monte Carlo results with exact diagonalization results in small triangular quantum clusters, providing further support for our thermal description of this compound. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/653702022-09-28T13:54:17Z Metastable states in the triangular-lattice Ising model studied by Monte Carlo simulations: Application to the spin-chain compound Ca[subscript 3]Co[subscript 2]O[subscript 6] Metastable states in the triangular-lattice Ising model studied by Monte Carlo simulations: Application to the spin-chain compound Ca3Co2O6 Soto, R. Martinez, G. Baibich, M. N. Florez Uribe, Juan Manuel Vargas, P. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science Baibich, M. N. Florez Uribe, Juan Manuel Baibich, M. N. It is well known that the spin-chain compound Ca[subscript 3]Co[subscript 2]O[subscript 6] exhibits interesting plateaus in the magnetization as a function of the magnetic field at low temperatures. The origin of them is still controversial. In this paper, we study the thermal behavior of this compound with a single-flip Monte Carlo simulation on a triangular lattice and demonstrate the decisive influence of metastable states on the splitting of the ferrimagnetic 1/3 plateau below 10 K. We consider the [Co2O6]n chains as giant magnetic moments described by large Ising spins on planar clusters with open boundary conditions. With this simple frozen-moments model we obtain stepped magnetization curves which agree quite well with the experimental results for different sweeping rates. We describe particularly the out-of-equilibrium states that split the low-temperature 1/3 plateau into three steps. They relax thermally to the 1/3 plateau, which has long-range order at equilibrium. Such metastable states are further analyzed with snapshots unveiling an interlinked mobile domain walls structure that is responsible for the observed behavior of the 1/3 plateau. A comparison is also given of our classical Monte Carlo results with exact diagonalization results in small triangular quantum clusters, providing further support for our thermal description of this compound. Millennium Science Initiative (Project No. P06-022-F) Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico (Chile) (Grant No. 1070224) Conselho Nacional de Pesquisas (Brazil) 2011-08-25T18:53:35Z 2011-08-25T18:53:35Z 2009-05 2009-02 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1098-0121 1550-235X http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65370 Soto, R. et al. “Metastable States in the Triangular-lattice Ising Model Studied by Monte Carlo Simulations: Application to the Spin-chain Compound Ca3Co2O6.” Physical Review B 79.18 (2009) : 184422 © 2009 The American Physical Society. en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.79.184422 Physical Review B Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf American Physical Society APS |
| spellingShingle | Soto, R. Martinez, G. Baibich, M. N. Florez Uribe, Juan Manuel Vargas, P. Metastable states in the triangular-lattice Ising model studied by Monte Carlo simulations: Application to the spin-chain compound Ca[subscript 3]Co[subscript 2]O[subscript 6] |
| title | Metastable states in the triangular-lattice Ising model studied by Monte Carlo simulations: Application to the spin-chain compound Ca[subscript 3]Co[subscript 2]O[subscript 6] |
| title_full | Metastable states in the triangular-lattice Ising model studied by Monte Carlo simulations: Application to the spin-chain compound Ca[subscript 3]Co[subscript 2]O[subscript 6] |
| title_fullStr | Metastable states in the triangular-lattice Ising model studied by Monte Carlo simulations: Application to the spin-chain compound Ca[subscript 3]Co[subscript 2]O[subscript 6] |
| title_full_unstemmed | Metastable states in the triangular-lattice Ising model studied by Monte Carlo simulations: Application to the spin-chain compound Ca[subscript 3]Co[subscript 2]O[subscript 6] |
| title_short | Metastable states in the triangular-lattice Ising model studied by Monte Carlo simulations: Application to the spin-chain compound Ca[subscript 3]Co[subscript 2]O[subscript 6] |
| title_sort | metastable states in the triangular lattice ising model studied by monte carlo simulations application to the spin chain compound ca subscript 3 co subscript 2 o subscript 6 |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65370 |
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