The Curie temperature distribution of FePt granular magnetic recording media

We present atomistic calculations of the magnetic phase transition behavior in an L1(0) FePt system to study the effect of grain size distribution on the Curie temperature (T-c) dispersion with relevance to heat assisted magnetic recording. Identifying the relation between the size and T-c of a grain by means of finite size scaling analysis of the differentiated magnetization versus T data allows to show that a lognormal size distribution transforms into a lognormal T-c distribution with moments dependent on the critical exponents. We also address the question of the universality class of FePt. (C) 2012 American Institute of Physics. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4740075]