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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Rep Prog Phys. 2014 Dec 4;78(1):016601. doi: 10.1088/0034-4885/78/1/016601

Figure 5.

Figure 5

(a) Schematic of the energy barrier (EB) required for the magnetic moment to flip between their easy axis (b) Illustration of particles in a (i) quasi-stable blocked state with a fixed coercivity behaving in a pseudo-ferromagnetic state and (ii) an unblocked freely rotating state, where the magnetic coercivity is rotating randomly making the net magnetic moment to be zero. Adapted from (Pankhurst et al., 2003).