Modelling of heat assisted magnetic recording with the Landau-Lifshitz-Bloch equation and Brillouin functions

Brillouin functions were used to model the temperature dependence of magnetisation in media for heat assisted magnetic recording. Although dHk/dT was higher when Brillouin functions with J = 0.5 or J = 1 were used, an earlier onset of the linear reversal mode led to a drop in dHc/dT near to Tc, resulting in wider written bits. Tracks written with a higher thermal gradient were also wider when J was small and had lower SNR.