Tuesday, February 7, 2012

1202.1131 (J. I. Mercer et al.)

Atomic level micromagnetic model of recording media switching at
elevated temperatures
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J. I. Mercer, M. L. Plumer, J. P. Whitehead, anf J. van Ek
An atomic level micromagnetic model of granular recording media is developed
and applied to examine external field-induced grain switching at elevated
temperatures which captures non-uniform reversal modes. The results are
compared with traditional methods which employ the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert
equations based on uniformly magnetized grains with assigned intrinsic
temperature profiles for $M(T)$ and $K(T)$. Using nominal parameters
corresponding to high-anisotropy FePt-type media envisioned for Energy Assisted
Magnetic Recording, our results demonstrate that atomic-level reversal slightly
reduces the field required to switch grains at elevated temperatures, but
results in larger fluctuations, when compared to a uniformly magnetized grain
model.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.1131

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