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Title: Magnetic relaxation in small-particle systems: ln(t/tau0) scaling
Author: Labarta, Amílcar
Iglesias, Òscar
Balcells i Argemí, Lluís
Badia, Ferran
Keywords: Magnetisme
Fenòmens de relaxació
Magnetism
Relaxation phenomena
Issue Date: 1993
Publisher: The American Physical Society
Abstract: Although most of the experimental work dealing with the magnetic relaxation of systems characterized by the existence of an energy-barrier distribution have been analyzed in terms of the so-called logarithmic approximation, this is not a good approximation because obviously it cannot describe the behavior for the whole range of temperatures and times. An alternative method called ln(t/τ0) scaling is proposed. This scaling method allows one to extrapolate the relaxation behavior at times that are experimentally completely unaccessible. From this scaling it is also possible to determine the attempt frequency 1/τ0, and if a certain distribution of energy barriers is assumed the width σ and the mean energy barrier is also obtained. The validity of the logarithmic approximation is critically discussed.
Note: Reproducció digital del document publicat en format paper, proporcionada per PROLA i http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.48.10240
It is part of: Physical Review B, 1993, vol. 48, núm. 14, p. 10240-10246.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2445/9946
Related resource: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.48.10240
ISSN: 0163-1829
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