ABSTRACT
We investigate the effect of evolution of energy of longitudinal spin fluctuations on the helimagnetic transition and specific heat in a Heisenberg magnet with the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction that may arise in a result of applied pressure. Using the classical Monte Carlo calculations for the spin-lattice Hamiltonian accounting for variable spin amplitudes we find that the helical phase transition is pretty robust against the longitudinal spin fluctuations. At the same time the amplitude of the fluctuation hump seen in the specific heat dependence at [Formula: see text] and its position are significantly affected. Depending on the mode of evolution the hump either shifts to lower or higher temperatures increasing its amplitude with the amplitude of the fluctuations.
ABSTRACT
We study the competition of magneto-dipole, anisotropy and exchange interactions in composite three-dimensional multiferroics. Using Monte Carlo simulations we show that magneto-dipole interaction does not suppress the ferromagnetic state caused by the interaction of the ferroelectric matrix and magnetic subsystem. However, the presence of the magneto-dipole interaction influences the order-disorder transition: depending on the strength of magneto-dipole interaction the transition from the ferromagnetic to the superparamagnetic state is accompanied either by the creation of vortices or domains of opposite magnetization. An unusual temperature hysteresis loop occurs in composite multiferroics due to non-monotonic behavior of exchange interaction versus temperature. The origin of this hysteresis is related to the presence of stable magnetic domains which are robust against thermal fluctuations.
