Origins of the Exchange-Bias Phenomenology, Coercivity Enhancement, and Asymmetric Hysteretic Shearing in Core-Surface Smart Nanoparticles

Figure 2

(a) hysteresis loops for a composite NP in the absence ( and ) and presence () of odd interaction (). (b) Hysteresis loops () as in (a), but using different exchange parameters; ; .

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