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THE value of the first magnetocrystalline isotropic constant, K1, of magnetite changes at low temperature1. This results in an isotropic point at a temperature TK of about −143° C2,3, where there is effectively zero magnetocrystalline anisotropy. A transition of remanence and associated memory are observed in thermal cycles across . We have observed that the memory and the low-temperature moment are increased when the thermal cycles are carried out under elastic compression.
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CARMICHAEL, R., FULLER, M. Effect of Compression upon the Magnetic Behaviour of Magnetite in Thermal Cycles across the Magnetocrystalline Isotropic Point. Nature 216, 365–366 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/216365a0
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