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Publication
Physical Review
Paper
Phase transitions in a uniaxial ferromagnet
Abstract
The phase transitions occurring in a uniaxial ferromagnet are studied for all temperatures up to the Curie temperature. The stability limits are obtained in the molecular-field approximation, and the critical dynamic behavior is discussed for a simple model taking spin-lattice relaxation effects into account. For fields applied in the easy direction and temperatures below some characteristic temperature T1<TC, and for fields applied in the hard direction and all temperatures T<TC, the instability occurs with respect to angular deviations of the magnetization from its equilibrium direction, the associated soft mode is a ferromagnetic resonance (or perpendicular relaxation) mode, and one obtains critical fluctuations of magnetization direction. The same holds approximately true for fields applied at an arbitrary angle and temperatures T<T1. For fields applied in the easy direction and temperatures in the interval T1<T<TC, the instability occurs with respect to deviations of magnetization magnitude, the associated soft mode is a parallel relaxation mode, and one obtains critical fluctuations of magnetization magnitude. The type of singularity of the static susceptibility and the behavior of the soft-mode frequencies at the stability limits are given for the different cases. © 1969 The American Physical Society.