Magnetic neutron scattering from spherical nanoparticles with Neel surface anisotropy: Analytical treatment
arXiv:2205.07549 · doi:10.1107/S1600576722008925
Abstract
The magnetization profile and the related magnetic small-angle neutron scattering cross section of a single spherical nanoparticle with Neel surface anisotropy is analytically investigated. We employ a Hamiltonian that comprises the isotropic exchange interaction, an external magnetic field, a uniaxial magnetocrystalline anisotropy in the core of the particle, and the Neel anisotropy at the surface. Using a perturbation approach, the determination of the magnetization profile can be reduced to a Helmholtz equation with Neumann boundary condition, whose solution is represented by an infinite series in terms of spherical harmonics and spherical Bessel functions. From the resulting infinite series expansion, we analytically calculate the Fourier transform, which is algebraically related to the magnetic small-angle neutron scattering cross section. The approximate analytical solution is compared to the numerical solution using the Landau-Lifshitz equation, which accounts for the full nonlinearity of the problem.
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