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Excess Spin and the Dynamics of Antiferromagnetic Ferritin
Temperature-dependent magnetization measurements on a series of synthetic
ferritin proteins containing from 100 to 3000 Fe(III) ions are used to
determine the uncompensated moment of these antiferromagnetic particles. The
results are compared with recent theories of macroscopic quantum coherence
which explicitly include the effect of this excess moment. The scaling of the
excess moment with protein size is consistent with a simple model of finite
size effects and sublattice noncompensation.Comment: 4 pages, 3 Postsript figures, 1 table. Submitted to PR