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We report on a comprehensive study of the magnetic coupling between soft magnetic Fe layers and hard magnetic Dysprosium (Dy) layers at low temperatures (4.2 - 120K). For our experiments we prepared thin films of Fe and Dy and multilayers…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-04-11 M. Ehlert , H. S. Körner , T. Hupfauer , M. Schitko , G. Bayreuther , D. Weiss

We theoretically investigate magnetic anisotropy in materials with non-critical elements to determine which symmetry conditions and atomic shell filling favor enhanced magnetic anisotropy. We study the magnetocrystalline anisotropies (MCA)…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-08 Nica Jane B. Ferrer , Gregory A. Fiete

Magnetoelectric coupling is vital for exploring fundamental science and driving the development of high-density memory and energy-efficient spintronic devices. Altermagnets, which merge the benefits of ferromagnets and antiferromagnets,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-03 Pengqiang Dong , Hanbo Sun , Chao Wu , Ping Li

In this study we present a theoretical investigation of the role that ferromagnetic plane (111) plays in the formation of magnetocrystalline anisotropy (MCA) effects in CoO and FeO monoxides. For this purpose, a first-principles…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-28 Ilya V. Kashin , Alexander S. Iakovlev , Sergei N. Andreev

We use first-principles calculations based on density functional theory to study how the magnetic properties of an Fe monolayer on a W(001) surface -- exhibiting a $c(2 \times 2)$ antiferromagnetic ground state -- can be modified by an…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-09-22 Nanning Petersen , Sebastian Meyer , Stefan Heinze

Magnetic anisotropy is crucially important for the stabilization of two-dimensional (2D) magnetism, which is rare in nature but highly desirable in spintronics and for advancing fundamental knowledge. Recent works on CrI$_3$ and CrGeTe$_3$…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-11-14 Changsong Xu , Junsheng Feng , Hongjun Xiang , L. Bellaiche

The plasma {\beta} (the ratio of the plasma pressure to the magnetic pressure) of a system can have a large effect on its dynamics as high {\beta} enhances the effects of pressure anisotropies. We investigate the effects of {\beta} in a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 K. M. Schoeffler , J. F. Drake , M. Swisdak

Developing permanent magnets with fewer critical elements requires understanding hysteresis effects and coercivity through visualizing magnetization reversal. Here, we numerically investigate the effect of the geometry of nanoscale…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-27 Shouvik Sarker , Md Mahadi Rajib , Radhika Barua , Jayasimha Atulasimha

We perform first principles calculations of the magnetocrystalline anisotropy energy in the five L10 FePt samples studied experimentally by Ding et al. [J. App. Phys. 97, 10H303 (2005)]. The effect of temperature-induced spin fluctuations…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-30 C. J. Aas , L. Szunyogh , J. S. Chen , R. W. Chantrell

Perpendicular exchange bias (EB), which combines the perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and the ferromagnetic (FM) - antiferromagnetic (AFM) exchange coupling, is extremely important in the high-density AFM spintronics. However, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-03-14 Qu Yang , Zhongqiang Hu , Yao Zhang , Wei Su , Bin Peng , Jingen Wu , Ziyao Zhou , Yun He , Wanzhao Cui , Zhiguang Wang , Ming Liu

The magnetic anisotropy (MA) of Fe-based ferromagnetic thin films has been extensively studied for device applications. The examined material is a new Fe-based ferromagnetic thin film, bcc Fe$_{1-x}$As$_x$ (Fe-As) with the in-plane MA (IMA)…

We have fabricated oxide based spin filter junctions in which we demonstrate that magnetic anisotropy can be used to tune the transport behavior of spin filter junctions. Until recently, spin filters have been largely comprised of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-27 R. V. Chopdekar , B. B. Nelson-Cheeseman , M. Liberati , E. Arenholz , Y. Suzuki

Previous studies have accurately determined the effect of transition metal point defects on the properties of bcc iron. The magnetic properties of transition metal monolayers on the iron surfaces have been studied equally intensively. In…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-01-17 Justyn Snarski-Adamski , Justyna Rychły , Mirosław Werwiński

Using first-principles calculations, we demonstrate that an Fe monolayer can assume very different magnetic phases on hexagonal hcp (0001) and fcc (111) surfaces of 4d- and 5d-transition metals. Due to the substrates' d-band filling, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-11-07 B. Hardrat , A. Al-Zubi , P. Ferriani , S. Blügel , G. Bihlmayer , S. Heinze

FeSe has a unique ground state in which superconductivity coexists with a nematic order without long-range magnetic ordering at ambient pressure. Here, to study how the pairing interaction evolves with nematicity, we measured the thermal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-05-22 Y. Sato , S. Kasahara , T. Taniguchi , X. Z. Xing , Y. Kasahara , Y. Tokiwa , T. Shibauchi , Y. Matsuda

Magnetic materials are usually characterized by anisotropy energy barriers which dictate the time scale of the magnetization decay and consequently the magnetic stability of the sample. Here we present a unified description, which includes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-03-31 F. Borgonovi , G. L. Celardo

The interplay among structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of Fe adatoms on the surface of two-dimensional ferroelectric {\alpha}-In$_2$Se$_3$ is investigated using first-principles electronic structure calculations, with a focus…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-14 Monirul Shaikh , Aleksander L. Wysocki

We investigate the magnetocaloric effect obtained by the rotation of a magnetic field applied to an exchange-coupled multilayer system composed of two different ferromagnetic (FM) materials. We specifically consider a system in which the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-12 Vittorio Basso , Carlo P. Sasso , Martino LoBue , Karl G. Sandeman

We examine the anisotropic properties of the exchange stiffness constant, $\mathcal{A}$, for rare-earth permanent magnet, Nd$_2$Fe$_{14}$B, by connecting analyses with two different scales of length, i.e., Monte Carlo (MC) method with an…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-22 Yuta Toga , Masamichi Nishino , Seiji Miyashita , Takashi Miyake , Akimasa Sakuma

The switching dynamics of a single-domain BiFeO3/CoFe heterojunction is modeled and key parameters such as interface exchange coupling coefficient are extracted from experimental results. The lower limit of the magnetic order response time…