Growth of a dynamical correlation length in an aging superspin glass

TL;DR

This study investigates the growth of a dynamical correlation length in an aging superspin glass through magnetization relaxation experiments, revealing insights similar to atomic spin glasses but in a longer timescale regime.

Contribution

It extends the understanding of dynamical correlation lengths to superspin glasses, using methods adapted from spin glass studies, and explores their time growth.

Findings

Correlation length increases with aging time

Results align with spin glass behavior models

Experiments probe longer timescales closer to simulations

Abstract

We report on zero field cooled magnetization relaxation experiments on a concen- trated frozen ferrofluid exhibiting a low temperature superspin glass transition. With a method initially developed for spin glasses, we investigate the field dependence of the relaxations that take place after different aging times. We extract the typical number of correlated spins involved in the aging dynamics. This brings important insights into the dynamical correlation length and its time growth. Our results, consistent with expressions obtained for spin glasses, extend the generality of these behaviours to the class of superspin glasses. Since the typical flipping time is much larger for superspins than for atomic spins, our experiments probe a time regime much closer to that of numerical simulations.