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Surface magnetic anisotropy at a compensated interface of ferromagnetic antiferromagnetic bilayer

Materials Science 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

The periodic deviations of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic spins from corresponding uniform configurations are shown to be energetically favorable close to a compensated interface of ferromagnetic antiferromagnetic bilayer. The amplitude of the deviations decreases exponentially into the film volumes as a function of a coordinate perpendicular to the interface. The interaction energy is found to be proportional to a square of a scalar product of unit ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic vectors.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0507578,
  title  = {Surface magnetic anisotropy at a compensated interface of ferromagnetic antiferromagnetic bilayer},
  author = {N. A. Usov and Ching-Ray Chang and Zung-Hang Wei},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0507578},
  year   = {2007}
}

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5 pages, 3 figures