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most citedMagnetic neutron scattering from spherical nanoparticles with Neel surface anisotropy: Atomistic simulations

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cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Reduced vortex descriptors linking polycrystallinity in magnetic nanoparticles with polarized magnetic small-angle neutron scattering

M. P. Adams, J. Leliaert, A. Michels +1

Analytical vortex models reduce polarized magnetic small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) from nanoparticle ensembles to a small set of texture descriptors. In this work, we apply t…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Polarized neutron scattering as a probe for vortex-type spin correlations in iron oxide multicore assemblies

Venus Rai, Ivan Titov, Elizabeth M. Jefremovas +11

We report an experimental investigation of the magnetic microstructure of iron oxide multicore assemblies by means of polarized small-angle neutron scattering (SANS). Guided by a r…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Angular anisotropy landscape of vortex ensembles in polarized small-angle neutron scattering

Michael P. Adams, Elizabeth M. Jefremovas, Andreas Michels

We present a symmetry-resolved classification of two-dimensional spin-flip small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) patterns arising from dilute ensembles of spherical nanoparticles h…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026★ 2 cited

NuMagSANS: a GPU-accelerated open-source software package for the generic computation of nuclear and magnetic small-angle neutron scattering observables of complex systems

Michael P. Adams, Andreas Michels

We present NuMagSANS, a GPU-accelerated software package for calculating nuclear and magnetic small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) cross sections and correlation functions. The pr…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Minimal model for vortex nucleation and reversal in spherical magnetic nanoparticles

Michael P. Adams, Andreas Michels

Magnetic nanoparticles beyond the single-domain limit often develop vortex-like magnetization textures arising from the competition between exchange and magnetostatic energies. Whi…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 1 cited

Spin-disorder-induced angular anisotropy in polarized magnetic neutron scattering

I. Titov, M. Bersweiler, M. P. Adams +14

We experimentally report a hitherto unseen angular anisotropy in the polarized small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) cross section of a magnetically strongly inhomogeneous material…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Micromagnetic structure of oxidized magnetite nanoparticles: sharp structural versus diffuse magnetic interface

Elizabeth M. Jefremovas, Michael P. Adams, Lucía Gandarias +4

The oxidation of magnetite to maghemite is a naturally occurring process that leads to the degradation of the magnetic properties of magnetite nanoparticles. Despite being systemat…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 8 cited

Quantum and classical magnetic Bloch points

Vladyslav M. Kuchkin, Andreas Haller, Štefan Liščák +5

A Bloch point represents a three-dimensional hedgehog singularity of a magnetic vector field in which the magnetization vanishes. However, standard micromagnetic theory, developed…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Low-frequency signature of magnetization nutation in nanomagnets

M. P. Adams, R. Bastardis, A. Michels +1

In this work, we show that surface anisotropy in nanomagnets induces a nutational motion of their magnetization at various frequencies, the lowest of which can be described by the…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Magnetic microstructure of nanocrystalline Fe-Nb-B alloys as seen by small-angle neutron and X-ray scattering

Venus Rai, Ivan Titov, Michael P. Adams +3

We have investigated the magnetic microstructure of two-phase Fe-Nb-B~based Nanoperm alloys using unpolarized small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) and small-angle X-ray scattering…

physics.app-ph2024

Understanding two-dimensional tractor magnets: theory and realizations

Michael P. Adams

We present a comparative investigation of two-dimensional tractor magnet configurations, analyzing both theoretical predictions and experimental results with a focus on the minimal…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Framework for Polarized Magnetic Neutron Scattering from Nanoparticle Assemblies with Vortex-Type Spin Textures

Michael P. Adams, Evelyn P. Sinaga, Stefan Liscak +1

Within the framework of the recently introduced multi-nanoparticle power-series expansion method for the polarized small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) cross section, we present a…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Neutron-scattering signature of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in nanoparticles

Evelyn Pratami Sinaga, Michael P. Adams, Eddwi H. Hasdeo +1

The antisymmetric Dzyaloshinkii-Moriya interaction (DMI) arises in systems with broken inversion symmetry and strong spin-orbit coupling. In conjunction with the isotropic and symm…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Signature of surface anisotropy in the spin-flip neutron scattering cross section of spherical nanoparticles: atomistic simulations and analytical theory

Michael P. Adams, Evelyn Pratami Sinaga, Hamid Kachkachi +1

We investigate the signature of magnetic surface anisotropy in nanoparticles in their spin-flip neutron scattering cross section. Taking into account the isotropic exchange interac…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 7 cited

Fingerprint of vortex-like flux closure in isotropic Nd-Fe-B bulk magnet

Mathias Bersweiler, Yojiro Oba, Evelyn Pratami Sinaga +5

Taking advantage of recent progress in neutron instrumentation and in the understanding of magnetic-field-dependent small-angle neutron scattering, here, we study the three-dimensi…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 6 cited

Spatial magnetization profile in spherical nanomagnets with surface anisotropy: Green's function approach

M. P. Adams, A. Michels, H. Kachkachi

We consider a single spherical nanomagnet and investigate the spatial magnetization profile in the continuum approach, using the Green's functio…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

On the angular anisotropy of the randomly-averaged magnetic neutron scattering cross section of nanoparticles

Michael P. Adams, Evelyn Pratami-Sinaga, Andreas Michels

We calculate the magnetic SANS cross section of dilute ensembles of uniformly magnetized and randomly-oriented Stoner-Wohlfarth particles using the Landau-Lifshitz equation. The fo…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 11 cited

Micromagnetic simulation of neutron scattering from spherical nanoparticles: Effect of pore-type defects

Evelyn Pratami Sinaga, Michael P. Adams, Mathias Bersweiler +6

We employ micromagnetic simulations to model the effect of pore-type microstructural defects on the magnetic small-angle neutron scattering cross section and the related pair-dista…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 11 cited

Magnetic neutron scattering from spherical nanoparticles with Neel surface anisotropy: Atomistic simulations

Michael P. Adams, Andreas Michels, Hamid Kachkachi

We consider a dilute ensemble of randomly-oriented noninteracting spherical nanomagnets and investigate its magnetization structure and ensuing neutron-scattering response by numer…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 7 cited

Magnetic neutron scattering from spherical nanoparticles with Neel surface anisotropy: Analytical treatment

Michael P. Adams, Andreas Michels, Hamid Kachkachi

The magnetization profile and the related magnetic small-angle neutron scattering cross section of a single spherical nanoparticle with Neel surface anisotropy is analytically inve…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 7 cited

Unraveling the magnetic softness in Fe-Ni-B based nanocrystalline material by magnetic small-angle neutron scattering

Mathias Bersweiler, Michael P. Adams, Inma Peral +3

We employ magnetic small-angle neutron scattering to investigate the magnetic interactions in alloy, a HiB-NANOPERM-type soft magnetic nanocrystalli…