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Surface anisotropy in nanomagnets: transverse or Néel ?

H. Kachkachi, H. Mahboub

cond-mat.mtrl-sciarXiv:cond-mat/0307436

Abstract

Through the hysteresis loop and magnetization spatial distribution we study and compare two models for surface anisotropy in nanomagnets: a model with transverse anisotropy axes and Néel's model. While surface anisotropy in the transverse model induces several jumps in the hysteresis loop because of the cluster-wise switching of spins, in the Néel model the jumps correspond to successive coherent partial rotations of the whole bunch of spins. These calculations together with experimental results suggest that Néel's model for surface anisotropy is more appropriate.

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