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1Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, D-55099 Mainz, Germany.
Abstract:
We calculate the contribution of the Néel surface anisotropy to the effective anisotropy of magnetic nanoparticles of spherical shape cut out of a simple cubic lattice. The effective anisotropy arises because deviations of atomic magnetizations from collinearity and thus the energy depends on the orientation of the global magnetization. The result is second order in the Néel surface anisotropy, scales with the particle's volume, and has cubic symmetry with preferred directions [+/- 1, +/-1 , +/-1].
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