1998/04/30 by Masamichi Nishino, Kizashi Yamaguchi, Seiji Miyashita · 1 citation
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Magnetic properties of thin films #Magnetism in coordination complexes #Theoretical and Computational Physics #cond-mat.mtrl-sci #cond-mat.stat-mech
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevb.58.9303
12 pages, 13 figures
arxiv created 1998/05/01 · openalex publication_date 1998/10/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
By studying the dynamics of the metastable magnetization of a statistical mechanical model we propose a switching mechanism for photoinduced magnetization. The equilibrium and nonequilibrium properties of the Blume-Capel model, which is a typical model exhibiting metastability, are studied by mean-field theory and Monte Carlo simulation. We demonstrate reversible changes of magnetization with a sequence of changes of system parameters, which models the reversible photoinduced magnetization. The implications of our results for recent experiments on Prussian blue analogs are discussed.