Theses and Dissertations

Issuing Body

Mississippi State University

Advisor

Novotny, Mark A.

Committee Member

Clay, Rudolf T.

Committee Member

Kim, Seong-Gon

Date of Degree

12-9-2006

Document Type

Graduate Thesis - Open Access

Major

Physics

Degree Name

Master of Science

College

College of Arts and Sciences

Department

Department of Physics and Astronomy

Abstract

The spin-lattice relaxation rates are calculated for a rigid magnetic spin cluster in an elastic medium in the presence of a magnetic eld using the latticerame method. This rate is then compared with both the rate calculated using the quantum mechanical densitymatrix method and with the Glauber dynamics. These calculation results are used in the contribution of various heat baths, such as a phonon bath in various dimensions or a fermionic bath, to transition rates that enter into dynamic Monte Carlo simulations of molecular magnets and nanomagnets.

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/11668/17443

Comments

condensed matter||lattice||Solids--Magnetic properties.||Condensed matter.||Spin-lattice relaxation.||Lattice dynamics.||Relaxation (Nuclear physics)||Density matrices.||Monte Carlo method--Computer simulation.||Magnets.||Nanostructured materials.

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