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Dipolar-coupled moment correlations in clusters of magnetic nanoparticles
Ist Teil von
Physical review. B, 2018, Vol.98 (22), p.224420
Ort / Verlag
College Park: American Physical Society
Erscheinungsjahr
2018
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APS Journals (American Physical Society)
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Here, we resolve the nature of the moment coupling between 10-nm dimercaptosuccinic acid–coated magnetic nanoparticles. The individual iron oxide cores were composed of > 95 % maghemite and agglomerated to clusters. At room temperature the ensemble behaved as a superparamagnet according to Mössbauer and magnetization measurements, however, with clear signs of dipolar interactions. Analysis of temperature-dependent ac susceptibility data in the superparamagnetic regime indicates a tendency for dipolar-coupled anticorrelations of the core moments within the clusters. To resolve the directional correlations between the particle moments we performed polarized small-angle neutron scattering and determined the magnetic spin-flip cross section of the powder in low magnetic field at 300 K. We extract the underlying magnetic correlation function of the magnetization vector field by an indirect Fourier transform of the cross section. The correlation function suggests nonstochastic preferential alignment between neighboring moments despite thermal fluctuations, with anticorrelations clearly dominating for next-nearest moments. These tendencies are confirmed by Monte Carlo simulations of such core clusters.