Magnetic properties of mixed spin (1, 3/2) Ising nanoparticles with core–shell structure

• Magnetic properties of mixed spin (1, 3/2) Ising nanoparticles are investigated.
• The system exhibits tricritical, double critical end, triple, critical end points.
• Q-, R-, P-, S-, N- and L-types of compensation behavior are found.
• Some characteristic phenomena are found depending on the interaction parameters.
• Effects of crystal-field and bilinear interactions on the system are examined.

The magnetic properties of mixed spin-1 and spin-3/2 Ising nanoparticles with core/shell structure are studied by using the effective-field theory with correlations. We investigate the thermal variations of the core, shell and total magnetizations and the Q-, R-, P-, S-, N- and L-types of compensation behavior in Néel classification nomenclature exists in the system. The effects of the crystal-field, core and shell interactions and interface coupling, on the phase diagrams are investigated in detail and the obtained phase diagrams are presented in three different planes. The system exhibits both second- and first-order phase transitions besides tricritical point, double critical end point, triple point and critical end point depending on the appropriate values of the interaction parameters. The system strongly affected by the surface situations and some characteristic phenomena are found depending on the ratio of the physical parameters in the surface shell and the core.