Three‐dimensional micromagnetic analysis of stability in fine magnetic grains
- 10 January 1994
- journal article
- Published by American Geophysical Union (AGU) in Journal of Geophysical Research
- Vol. 99 (B1) , 611-618
- https://doi.org/10.1029/93jb02637
Abstract
We examine the stability of magnetic remanences in grains of magnetite near the critical single‐domain grain size (d0). The magnetic structure of a grain is followed during a 180° magnetization reversal, and it is shown that noncoherent reversals can occur even in grains smaller than d0. The energy barrier to noncoherent revesal is much lower than that of coherent rotation, so that pseudo‐single‐domain grain behavior will be exhibited by grains significantly smaller than d0.Keywords
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