Inverse transition in the dipolar frustrated Ising ferromagnet : the role of domain walls

Fil: Araújo Velasque, Luciana. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Instituto de Física. Departamento de Física; Brasil.

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Main Authors: Araújo Velasque, Luciana, Stariolo, Daniel Adrián, Billoni, Orlando Vito
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Published: 2021
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11086/20783
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.90.214408
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spelling rdu-unc.207832022-10-13T11:06:15Z Inverse transition in the dipolar frustrated Ising ferromagnet : the role of domain walls Araújo Velasque, Luciana Stariolo, Daniel Adrián Billoni, Orlando Vito Inverse symmetry-breaking Ultrathin Magnetic Films publishedVersion Fil: Araújo Velasque, Luciana. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Instituto de Física. Departamento de Física; Brasil. Fil: Stariolo, Daniel Adrián. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Instituto de Física. Departamento de Física; Brasil. Fil: Stariolo, Daniel Adrián. National Institute of Science and Technology for Complex Systems; Brasil. Fil: Billoni, Orlando Vito. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Matemática, Astronomía y Física; Argentina. Fil: Billoni, Orlando Vito. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Instituto de Física Enrique Gaviola; Argentina. We present a theoretical study aimed at elucidating the origin of the inverse symmetry-breaking transition observed in ultrathin magnetic films with perpendicular anisotropy. We study the behavior of the dipolar frustrated Ising model in a mean field approximation as well as two other models with simple domain walls. By a numerical analysis we show that the internal degrees of freedom of the domain walls are decisive for the presence of the inverse symmetry-breaking transition. In particular, we show that in a sharp domain wall model the inverse transition is absent. At high temperatures the additional degrees of freedom of the extended domain walls increase the entropy of the system leading to a reduction of the free energy of the stripe phase. Upon lowering the temperature the domain walls become narrow, and the reduction of the number of degrees of freedom associated with them manifests in a reduction of entropy which eventually induces an inverse transition to the competing homogenous phase. We also show that, for a growing external field at constant temperature, the stripe width grows strongly when approaching the critical field line and diverges at the transition. These results indicate that the inverse transition is a continuous phase transition and that the domain wall profiles and the temperature have little effect on the critical behavior of the period of the domain as a function of the applied field. publishedVersion Fil: Araújo Velasque, Luciana. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Instituto de Física. Departamento de Física; Brasil. Fil: Stariolo, Daniel Adrián. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Instituto de Física. Departamento de Física; Brasil. Fil: Stariolo, Daniel Adrián. National Institute of Science and Technology for Complex Systems; Brasil. Fil: Billoni, Orlando Vito. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Matemática, Astronomía y Física; Argentina. Fil: Billoni, Orlando Vito. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Instituto de Física Enrique Gaviola; Argentina. Física de los Materiales Condensados 2021-10-12T16:16:17Z 2021-10-12T16:16:17Z 2014 article Araújo Velasque, L., Stariolo, D. A. y Billoni, O. V. (2014). Inverse transition in the dipolar frustrated Ising ferromagnet : the role of domain walls. Physical Review B, 90 (21), 214408. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.90.214408 http://hdl.handle.net/11086/20783 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.90.214408 eng Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Impreso; Electrónico y/o Digital ISSN 1098-0121
spellingShingle Inverse symmetry-breaking
Ultrathin
Magnetic
Films
Araújo Velasque, Luciana
Stariolo, Daniel Adrián
Billoni, Orlando Vito
Inverse transition in the dipolar frustrated Ising ferromagnet : the role of domain walls
title Inverse transition in the dipolar frustrated Ising ferromagnet : the role of domain walls
title_full Inverse transition in the dipolar frustrated Ising ferromagnet : the role of domain walls
title_fullStr Inverse transition in the dipolar frustrated Ising ferromagnet : the role of domain walls
title_full_unstemmed Inverse transition in the dipolar frustrated Ising ferromagnet : the role of domain walls
title_short Inverse transition in the dipolar frustrated Ising ferromagnet : the role of domain walls
title_sort inverse transition in the dipolar frustrated ising ferromagnet the role of domain walls
topic Inverse symmetry-breaking
Ultrathin
Magnetic
Films
url http://hdl.handle.net/11086/20783
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.90.214408
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