Abstract
Magnetic measurements on small γ-Fe2O3 particles (diameter D~3nm) have been carried out. Features in the zero-field-cooled and field-cooled magnetization data and the high-field irreversibility in the low-temperature hysteresis curve are found to be consistent with a collective thermal blocking process. The dynamical properties, studied by ac magnetic susceptibility measurements, suggest the occurrence of a spin-glass like transition with a critical exponent zv = 8.0±0.8. This finding is also supported by the H2/3-dependence of the temperature transition (Tg) which is consistent with the Almeida-Thouless critical line (δTg ~H2/3) of canonical spin glasses.
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