Theory of partial thermoremanent magnetization in multidomain grains: 2. Effect of microcoercivity distribution and comparison with experiment
Theory of partial thermoremanent magnetization in multidomain grains: 2. Effect of microcoercivity distribution and comparison with experiment
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多畴晶粒部分热剩磁理论:2.微矫顽力分布的影响及与实验的比较
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1994
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D. Dunlop
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Song Xu;D. Dunlop
We extend the thermoremanent magnetization (TRM)and pTRM theories developed in paper 1 (Dunlop and Xu, this issue) to grains in which domain walls are pinned by microcoercivities of varying magnitudes. Assuming microcoercivities to be exponentially distributed, we find that the intensity of a total TRM is linearly proportional to the inducing field H0 for small H0, to a power of roughly 1–1/n for intermediate H0, and independent of H0 for large H0, similar to the results obtained in paper 1. Here n represents the temperature dependence of microcoercivity that goes as the n th power of the saturation magnetization Ms (T). The above three field dependent regions correspond to thermally blocked, field-blocked and reequilibrated walls, respectively. When being thermally demagnetized, a TRM induced in a high field has low unblocking temperatures, as observed. For a partial TRM acquired from T2 ( T0, an even higher T2 is required. In such cases, the room temperature intensity of pTRM is approximately proportional to H02 when H0 is small. The resulting thermal demagnetization curve, normalized to the intensity before heating, is independent of both H0 and the mean value of microcoercivities. Complete demagnetization will not occur at a demagnetizing temperature T2 but only at a temperature close to Tc. The theory is supported by experimental data of thermal demagnetizations of pTRMs measured for various multidomain magnetite samples.