Realising the promise of next-generation magnetic nanotechnologies is contingent on the development of novel methods for controlling magnetic states at the nanoscale. There is currently demand for simple and flexible techniques to access exotic magnetisation states without convoluted fabrication and application processes. 360° domain walls (metastable twists in magnetisation separating two doma...

We study the effect of free boundaries in finite magnetic systems of cubic shape on the field and temperature dependence of the magnetisation within the isotropic model of D-component spin vectors in the limit D → ∞. This model is described by a closed system of equations and captures the Goldstone-mode effects such as global rotation of the magnetic moment and spin-wave fluctuations. We have o...

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is a phenomenon in which particular atomic nuclei respond to the application of certain magnetic fields by absorbing or emitting electromagnetic radiation, a phenomenon which was first demonstrated by Bloch, Hansen and Packard in 1946. Its medical application was pioneered by Odeblad, a physicist from Sweden, during the l950s and 1960s (Odeblad and Lindstr#{246}...

We report new experimental results obtained on the insulating spin glass CdCr1.7In0.3S4. Our experimental setup allows a quantitative comparison between the thermo-remanent magnetisation and the autocorrelation of spontaneous fluctuations of magnetisation, yielding a complete determination of the fluctuation-dissipation relation. The dynamics can be studied both in the quasi-equilibrium regime,...

Abstract. We present the results obtained on the magnetisation relaxation properties of an XX quantum chain in a transverse magnetic field. We first consider an initial thermal kink-like state where half of the chain is initially thermalized at a very high temperature Tb while the remaining half, called the system, is put at a lower temperature Ts. From this initial state, we derive analyticall...

a preliminary palaeomagnetic results from basalt outcrops in northeast lebanon is reported. the remanence carrier of the characteristic magnetisation is magnetite.  both variations of susceptibility and anisotropy directional data show that the measured directions of thermoremanent magnetisation (trm) are representative of the ambient field at the time of cooling of these basalts through their ...

We present a microscopic model for nanoparticles, of the maghemite (γ-Fe2O3) type, and perform classical Monte Carlo simulations of their magnetic properties. On account of Mössbauer spectroscopy and high-field magnetisation results, we consider a particle as composed of a core and a surface shell of constant thickness. The magnetic state in the particle is described by the anisotropic classica...

We have designed a GdCo/Cu/NiFe Giant Magnetoresistance (GMR) trilayer, the magnetoresistance of which does not always depend on the angle between the magnetisations of the electrodes. Using a GdCo ferrimagnetic alloy close to compensation, it was possible to experimentally reach the spin flop field Bsf of the ferrimagnetic layer. Below Bsf , the ferrimagnetic layer behaves as a ferromagnetic l...