Exchange anisotropy and the dynamic phase transition in thin ferromagnetic Heisenberg films

TL;DR

This study uses Monte Carlo simulations to explore how bilinear exchange anisotropy influences the dynamic phase transition in thin ferromagnetic Heisenberg films, revealing a single discontinuous transition without stochastic resonance.

Contribution

It demonstrates the dependence of the dynamic phase transition on exchange anisotropy and contrasts it with temperature-driven transitions in the same system.

Findings

Single discontinuous dynamic phase transition as a function of anisotropy

No evidence of stochastic resonance associated with the DPT

Contrast with continuous DPT at fixed anisotropy

Abstract

Monte Carlo simulations have been performed to investigate the dependence of the dynamic phase behavior on the bilinear exchange anisotropy of a classical Heisenberg spin system. The system under consideration is a planar thin ferromagnetic film with competing surface fields subject to a pulsed oscillatory external field. The results show that the films exhibit a single discontinuous dynamic phase transition (DPT) as a function of the anisotropy of the bilinear exchange interaction in the Hamiltonian. Furthermore there is no evidence of stochastic resonance (SR) associated with the DPT. These results are in marked contrast to the continuous DPT observed in the same system as a function of temperature and applied field strength for a fixed bilinear exchange anisotropy.