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P Nordblad

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PubMed2006

Competing exchange interactions in magnetic multilayers.

We have studied alloying of the nonmagnetic spacer layer with a magnetic material as a method of tuning the interlayer coupling in magnetic multilayers. We have specifically studied the Fe/V(100) system by alloying the spacer V with various amounts of Fe. For some Fe concentrations in the spacer, it is possible to create a competition between antiferromagnetic Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yoshida exchange and direct ferromagnetic exchange coupling. The exchange coupling and transport properties for a large span of systems with different spacer concentrations and thicknesses were calculated and measured experimentally and good agreement between observations and theory was observed. A reduction in magnetoresistance of about 50% was observed close to the switchover from antiferromagnetic to ferromagnetic coupling.

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PubMed2002

Symmetrical temperature-chaos effect with positive and negative temperature shifts in a spin glass.

Aging in a Heisenberg-like spin glass Ag(11 at. % Mn) is investigated by measurements of the zero-field-cooled magnetic relaxation at a constant temperature after small temperature shifts absolute value of Delta T/T(g) < 0.012. A crossover from fully accumulative to nonaccumulative aging is observed, and by converting time scales to length scales using the logarithmic growth law of the droplet model, we find quantitative evidence that positive and negative temperature shifts cause an equivalent restart of aging (rejuvenation) in terms of dynamical length scales. This result supports the existence of a unique overlap length between a pair of equilibrium states in the spin-glass system.

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PubMed2002

Domain growth by isothermal aging in 3D Ising and Heisenberg spin glasses.

Nonequilibrium dynamics of three-dimensional model spin glasses, the Ising system Fe0.50Mn0.50TiO3 and the Heisenberg-like system Ag(11 at % Mn), has been investigated by measurements of the isothermal time decay of the low frequency ac susceptibility after a quench from the paramagnetic to the spin-glass phase. It is found that the relaxation data measured at different temperatures can be scaled according to predictions from the droplet scaling model, provided that critical fluctuations are accounted for in the analyses.

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PubMed2001

Aging effect in ceramic superconductors.

A three-dimensional lattice of the Josephson junctions with a finite self-conductance is employed to model ceramic superconductors. By using Monte Carlo simulations it is shown that the aging disappears in the strong screening limit. In the weak screening regime, aging is present even at low temperatures. For intermediate values of the self-inductance, aging occurs in an intermediate temperature interval but is suppressed entirely at high and low temperatures. Our results are in good agreement with experiments.

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PubMed1994

Complementary Mössbauer and EPR studies of iron(III) in diferric human serum transferrin with oxalate or bicarbonate as synergistic anions.

The spectral and magnetic properties of iron(III) bound in the metal binding sites of human serum transferrin with oxalate or bicarbonate as synergistic anions has been studied with Mössbauer spectroscopy and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR). The Mössbauer spectra of the iron(III) in diferric transferrin with oxalate have been described using a spin Hamiltonian with the values of the zero field splitting parameter, D = 0.55 +/- 0.05 cm-1, and the rhombicity of the crystal field, E/D = 0.045 +/- 0.005. The EPR spectrum can be described with D = 0.58 cm-1 and E/D = 0.057, using a g-strain model for the lineshape that is based on a Gaussian distribution of D and E/D with Gaussian widths sigma(D) = 0.35 cm-1 and sigma(E/D) = 0.013, respectively. The rhombicity of the iron surroundings for the transferrin-oxalate complex is almost one order of magnitude smaller than for the bicarbonate complex and the zero field splitting parameter is twice as large in the oxalate as in the bicarbonate complex. We conclude that the crystal field symmetry of the iron site is almost tetragonal in the oxalate complex but rhombohedral in the bicarbonate complex, reflecting the different geometries of the oxalate and bicarbonate coordination. The isomer shift delta = 0.56 +/- 0.01 mm s-1 and the quadrupole splitting delta EQ = 0.2 +/- 0.1 mm s-1, on the other hand, are very close to the values found for the bicarbonate complex. No differences between the Mössbauer spectra of the two iron(III) ions in diferric transferrin with oxalate were found. The homogeneity of the diferric transferrin samples was controlled by capillary zone electrophoresis in the presence of urea.

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