Modeling Barkhausen Noise in Magnetic Glasses with Dipole-Dipole Interactions

TL;DR

This paper presents an atomistic model of magnetic glasses with dipole-dipole interactions, showing that Barkhausen Noise arises from domain boundary movements and exhibits exponential statistics, challenging existing universality class assumptions.

Contribution

It introduces a new atomistic model for magnetic glasses that accurately captures Barkhausen Noise without free parameters, revealing different statistical behaviors than previously expected.

Findings

Barkhausen Noise results from domain boundary movements in the model.

The noise exhibits exponential, not power-law, statistics.

The proposed theory matches experimental data without free parameters.

Abstract

Long-ranged dipole-dipole interactions in magnetic glasses give rise to magnetic domains having labyrinthine patterns. Barkhausen Noise is then expected to result from the movement of domain boundaries which is supposed to be modeled by the motion of elastic membranes with random pinning. We propose an atomistic model of such magnetic glasses in which we measure the Barkhausen Noise which indeed results from the movement of domain boundaries. Nevertheless the statistics of the Barkhausen Noise is found in striking disagreement with the expectations in the literature. In fact we find exponential statistics without any power law, stressing the fact that Barkhausen Noise can belong to very different universality classes. In this glassy system the essence of the phenomenon is the ability of spin-carrying particles to move and minimize the energy without any spin flip. A theory is offered in excellent agreement with the measured data without any free parameter.