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A drop of hyperfine field at Sn in Fe/Cr/Sn/Cr multilayers

Materials Science 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

The magnetism of the Fe/Cr/Sn/Cr multilayers was studied by first-principles functional theory. The calculations by LAPW and SKKR methods showed that two solutions exist in the Fe9/Cr14/Sn/Cr2Fe_9/Cr_{14}/Sn/Cr_2 system. One of them is originated from the antiferromagnetic order in the bulk Cr, and the other is connected with incommensurate spin density wave (ISDW) in Cr. A characteristic feature of this system is realization of ISDW in the Cr film thinner than the half length period of a common ISDW in Cr. In the Cr layers with width lower than a quarter of the wave, the ISDW cannot be the cause of the sharp drop of the HFF at Sn. The calculations of the system Fe3/Cr8/Sn/Cr8Fe_3/Cr_8/Sn/Cr_8 with and without allowance for the roughness at the Fe/Cr interface showed that the roughness leads to a significant decrease in the HFF at Sn.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0411602,
  title  = {A drop of hyperfine field at Sn in Fe/Cr/Sn/Cr multilayers},
  author = {A. K. Arzhnikov and L. V. Dobysheva and D. V. Fedorov and V. M. Uzdin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0411602},
  year   = {2007}
}

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5 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables