Growth of a dynamical correlation length in an aging superspin glass

Elie Wandersman (1) , V. Dupuis (1) , Emmanuelle Dubois (1) , Régine Perzynski (1) , Sawako Nakamae (2) , Eric Vincent (2)

1 LI2C - Liquides Ioniques et Interfaces Chargées
2 SPEC - UMR3680 - Service de physique de l'état condensé

We report on zero field cooled magnetization relaxation experiments on a concen- trated frozen ferrofluid exhibiting a low temperature superspin glass transition. With a method initially developed for spin glasses, we investigate the field dependence of the relaxations that take place after different aging times. We extract the typical number of correlated spins involved in the aging dynamics. This brings important insights into the dynamical correlation length and its time growth. Our results, consistent with expressions obtained for spin glasses, extend the generality of these behaviours to the class of superspin glasses. Since the typical flipping time is much larger for superspins than for atomic spins, our experiments probe a time regime much closer to that of numerical simulations.

Mots clés: magnetic nanoparticles; spin glasses; slow dynamics; aging; correlation length

Domaines: Systèmes désordonnés et réseaux de neurones [cond-mat.dis-nn]

Elie Wandersman, V. Dupuis, Emmanuelle Dubois, Régine Perzynski, Sawako Nakamae, et al.. Growth of a dynamical correlation length in an aging superspin glass. EPL - Europhysics Letters, 2008, 84, pp.37011. ⟨10.1209/0295-5075/84/37011⟩. ⟨hal-00284743v2⟩