Abstract
Magnetic viscosity measurements were made on native horse-spleen ferritin in zero applied magnetic field at temperatures between 2 and 21 K. The data have been used to calculate the apparent magnetic-moment-weighted energy barrier distribution for the sample of ferritin. The distribution is composed of a log-normal distribution plus a second distribution that is well described by an exponential decay of barrier frequency with increasing barrier height. The two distributions contribute approximately equally to the overall distribution. The log-normal distribution has its peak at an energy barrier of approximately $3\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{\ensuremath{-}21}\mathrm{J},$ while the decay constant for the second distribution has a value of approximately $2\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{\ensuremath{-}21}\mathrm{J}.$ The existence of the low-energy barrier distribution with exponentially decaying shape in conjunction with the observation of shifted field-cooled magnetic hysteresis loops is interpreted as strong evidence for the existence of multiple interacting magnetic entities within each ferritin particle.
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