Giant magnetic anisotropy at nanoscale: overcoming the superparamagnetic limit

Details Giant magnetic anisotropy at nanoscale: overcoming the superparamagnetic limit Giant magnetic anisotropy at nanoscale: overcoming the superparamagnetic limit

2006-05-07

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0605171v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

15 pages, 2 figures, submitted to PRB

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.74.052403

It has been recently observed for palladium and gold nanoparticles, that the magnetic moment at constant applied field does not change with temperature over the range comprised between 5 and 300 K. These samples with size smaller than 2.5 nm exhibit remanence up to room temperature. The permanent magnetism for so small samples up to so high temperatures has been explained as due to blocking of local magnetic moment by giant magnetic anisotropies. In this report we show, by analysing the anisotropy of thiol capped gold films, that the orbital momentum induced at the surface conduction electrons is crucial to understand the observed giant anisotropy. The orbital motion is driven by localised charge and/or spin through spin orbit interaction, that reaches extremely high values at the surfaces. The induced orbital moment gives rise to an effective field of the order of 103 T that is responsible of the giant anisotropy.

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