The nanomagnetism of monodisperse 7 nm
γ-Fe2O3
nanoparticles exhibits unique features due to a significant amount of surface spin disorder.
To correctly characterize the superparamagnetism of a dilute dispersion requires including
the effects of the magnetic anisotropy and a shell of disordered spins surrounding
the ordered core. The nanoparticle shell’s disordered spin structure is exchange
coupled to that of the ordered core. This enables an exchange bias loop shift,
Hex, when the nanoparticle dispersion is field cooled. The surface spin disorder also leads to an
unusual exponential-like decrease of the nanoparticle’s total saturation magnetization with
increasing temperature.
We report magnetic measurements on a macroscopic three-dimensional fcc array of iron-oxide nanoparticles. We observe typical nanomagnetism for the randomly packed configuration of nanoparticles, including dynamical freezing and superparamagnetism. By contrast, the nanoparticle "atoms" in the fcc configuration that form the crystal exhibit a low coercivity that is weakly temperature dependent with no superparamagnetism up to 400 K.
We report a Monte Carlo study of the classical antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on the triangular lattice. The free-energy cost for the formation of free vortices is obtained from a vorticity modulus. Evidence of a Kosterlitz-Thouless type of defect-mediated phase transition at a finite temperature is found.
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