Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 79, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.79.104420
Keywords
Curie temperature; ferromagnetic materials; heat treatment; Heisenberg model; iron compounds; magnetic susceptibility; magnetisation; microwave materials; Monte Carlo methods; sintering; spin dynamics; titanium compounds
Funding
- Japan Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture [18070005]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [18070005] Funding Source: KAKEN
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The mechanism of rapid and selective heating of magnetic metal oxides under the magnetic field of microwaves which continues beyond the Curie temperature T-c is identified by using the Heisenberg model. Monte Carlo calculations based on the energy principle show that such heating is caused by nonresonant response of electron spins in the unfilled 3d shell to the wave magnetic field. Small spin reorientation thus generated leads to a large internal energy change through the exchange interactions between spins, which becomes maximal around T-c for magnetite Fe3O4. The dissipative spin dynamics simulation yields the imaginary part of the magnetic susceptibility, which becomes largest around T-c and for the microwave frequency around 2 GHz. Hematite Fe2O3 with weak spontaneous magnetization responds much less to microwaves as observed in experiments. The heating of titanium oxide by microwave magnetic field only when oxygen defects are present is also explained by our theory in terms of the appearance of spontaneous magnetization.
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