Analytical description of a system of two interacting identical uniaxial ferromagnetic particles

In this paper, we present an analytical method to study the magnetization processes of two magnetic particles with ferromagnetic or antiferromagnetic coupling by using a modified expression for the anisotropy free energy. By considering a system consisting of two uniaxial particles, coupled by a simple exchange interaction, we describe analytically: the particles orientations, switching points and hysteresis loops for different ferromagnetic or antiferromagnetic couplings and for different orientations of the applied field. (C) 2011 American Institute of Physics. [doi:10.1063/1.3626465]