Monte Carlo simulations of dynamic phase transitions in ferromagnetic thin-films

Bahadır Ozan Aktaş, Erol Vatansever, Hamza Polat

Published 2015-01-26Version 1

By means of detailed Monte Carlo (MC) simulations, we have presented dynamic phase transition (DPT) properties of ferromagnetic thin-films. Thermal variations of surface, bulk and total dynamical order parameters (DOP) for a film and total order parameter for the films with different thicknesses have been examined. Opposite regimes of the critical value of reduced exchange interaction (surface to bulk ratio) $R_{c}$ at which the critical temperature becomes independent of film thickness $L$ has been also taken into consideration. The average magnetizations of each layer is reversed in these regimes. Based on the results, we have confirmed that the system represents a crossover behavior in between ordinary to extraordinary transition in the presence of surface exchange enhancement.