Monte Carlo simulations of ferromagnetic nanocomposites

Abstract

We present results of Monte Carlo simulations of a model system of Co nanoparticles in an external magnetic field. In our simulations we take into account the interaction with the external magnetic field, the energy of crystallographic anisotropy and the dipole-dipole interactions between single domain nanoparticles. We apply the standard Metropolis algorithm to a cluster of 27 randomly distributed superparamagnetic Co nanoparticles. We investigate the dependence of blocking temperature Tb on particle and cluster size.