Spherical model for anisotropic ferromagnetic films

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/29/10/006MaRDI QIDQ4389932zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors D. A. Garanin

Publication date 24 May 1998

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9804043

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of magnetic materials (82D40)

Abstract: The corrections to the Curie temperature T_c of a ferromagnetic film consisting of N layers are calculated for N gg 1 for the model of D-component classical spin vectors in the limit D o infty, which is exactly soluble and close to the spherical model. The present approach accounts, however, for the magnetic anisotropy playing the crucial role in the crossover from 3 to 2 dimensions in magnetic films. In the spatially inhomogeneous case with free boundary conditions the D=infty model is nonequivalent to the standard spherical one and always leads to the diminishing of T_c(N) relative to the bulk.

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• Boundary and finite-size effects in small magnetic systems

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