A Two Rotor Model with spin for magnetic Nanoparticles
arXiv:1404.4958 · doi:10.1039/C4CP03359K
Abstract
We argue that for some species of magnetic nanoparticles the macrospin can have a nonvanishing moment of inertia and then an orbital angular momentum. We represent such nanoparticles by two interacting rigid rotors one of which has a large spin attached to the body, namely by a Two Rotor Model with spin. By this model we can describe in a unified way the cases of nanoparticles free and stuck in an elastic or rigid matrix. We evaluate the magnetic susceptibilities for the latter case and under some realistic assumptions we get results in closed form. A crossover between thermal and purely quantum hopping occurs at a temperature much larger than that at which purely quantum tunneling becomes important. A comparison with some experimental data is outlined.
5 pages, 2 figures
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