Physics – Condensed Matter – Other Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2010-09-14
Physics
Condensed Matter
Other Condensed Matter
to appear in Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
Scientific paper
The effect of magnetic anisotropy-axis alignment on the superparamagnetic (SPM) and superspin glass (SSG) states in a frozen ferrofluid has been investigated. The ferrofluid studied here consists of maghemite nanoparticles (\gamma-Fe2O3, mean diameter = 8.6 nm) dispersed in glycerine at a volume fraction of ~15%. In the high temperature SPM state, the magnetization of aligned ferrofluid increased by a factor varying between 2 and 4 with respect to that in the randomly oriented state. The negative interaction energy obtained from the Curie-Weiss fit to the high temperature susceptibility in the SPM states as well as the SSG phase onset temperature determined from the linear magnetization curves were found to be rather insensitive to the anisotropy axis alignment. The low temperature aging behaviour, explored via "zero-field cooled magnetization" (ZFCM) relaxation measurements, however, show distinct difference in the aging dynamics in the anisotropy-axis aligned and randomly oriented SSG states.
Dubois Emmanuel
Dupuis Véronique
Komatsu Katsuyoshi
L'Hôte Denis
Nakamae Sawako
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