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Spin spirals form inside the magnetic layers of antiferromagnetic and noncollinearly-coupled magnetic multilayers in the presence of an external magnetic field. This spin structure can be modeled to extract the direct exchange stiffness of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 Elliot Wadge , Afan Terko , George Lertzman-Lepofsky , Paul Omelchenko , Bret Heinrich , Manuel Rojas , Erol Girt

This work explores the static and dynamic magnetic properties of weakly antiferromagnetically coupled Fe/Ti superlattices, emphasizing the link between magnetic behavior and structural characteristics. HRTEM and XRD analyses confirm…

Interlayer exchange in synthetic antiferromagnets incorporating thin paramagnetic spacers can be controlled thermally. The spacer provides an additional ferromagnetic contribution that renormalizes the otherwise temperature-independent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 O. Kozlov , V. Kalita , S. Reshetniak , A. Kravets , D. Polishchuk , V. Korenivski

We observe a strong thermally-controlled magnon-mediated interlayer coupling of two ferromagnetic layers via an antiferromagnetic spacer in spin-valve type trilayers. The effect manifests itself as a field-induced coherent switching of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Dmytro M. Polishchuk , Yuliia O. Tykhonenko-Polishchuk , Olena V. Gomonay , Vladislav Korenivski

Collinear antiferromagnets (AFs) support two degenerate magnon excitations carrying opposite spin polarizations, by which magnons can function as electrons in various spin-related phenomena. In an insulating ferromagnet(F)/AF/F trilayer, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-21 Ran Cheng , Di Xiao , Jian-Gang Zhu

We show that the coupling between two ferromagnetic layers separated by a nonmagnetic spacer can be used to control the depinning of domain walls and induce unidirectional domain wall propagation. We investigated CoFeB/Ti/CoFeB trilayers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-24 Mark C. H. de Jong , Can Onur Avci , Aleš Hrabec , Pietro Gambardella

We present a systematic study of higher-order exchange interactions beyond the pair-wise Heisenberg exchange in transition-metal trilayers based on density functional theory calculations. We show that these terms can play an important role…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-07-21 Mara Gutzeit , Soumyajyoti Haldar , Sebastian Meyer , Stefan Heinze

We revisit the non-collinear exchange coupling across the trilayer magnetic junction mediated by the diluted-magnetic-semiconductor thin film. By numerical approaches, we investigate the spiral angle between the ferromagnetic layers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Chia-Hui Lin , Hsiu-Hau Lin , Tzay-Ming Hong

We describe a systematic study of the exchange coupling between a magnetically hard metallic ferromagnet (MnAs) and a magnetically soft ferromagnetic semiconductor (GaMnAs) in bilayer and trilayer heterostructures. An exchange spring model…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 M. J. Wilson , M. Zhu , R. C. Myers , D. D. Awschalom , P. Schiffer , N. Samarth

We report an unusual, non-monotonous dependence of the exchange bias on the thickness of the ferromagnetic layer in a ferromagnet/antiferromagnet bilayer system. We show that in epitaxial CoO/Fe(110) bilayers, the evolution of the Fe…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-29 M. Ślęzak , T. Ślęzak , P. Dróżdż , B. Matlak , K. Matlak , J. Korecki

The manipulation of the antiferromagnetic interlayer coupling in the epitaxial Fe/Cr/Fe(001) trilayer system by moderate 5 keV He ion beam irradiation has been investigated experimentally. It is shown that even for irradiation with very low…

We present a simple atomistic model for the description of noncollinear coupling in magnetic multilayers with hybrid spacer layers made of Ru alloyed to ferromagnetic atoms such as Fe. In contrast to previous analytical and micromagnetic…

Recently, two-dimensional (2D) bilayer magnetic systems have been widely studied. Their interlayer magnetic interactions play a vital role in the magnetic properties. In this paper, we theoretically studied the interlayer magnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-10 Wenqi Yang , Xinlong Yang , Menglei Li , Lin Hu , Fawei Zheng

We theoretically investigate the effective exchange interaction, $J_\mathrm{eff}$, mediated by conductive electrons within a nonmagnetic metal spacer, in the presence of a bias voltage, sandwiched by two ferromagnetic insulators. On the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-09 Kohei Ohgane , Yuta Yahagi , Daisuke Miura , Akimasa Sakuma

When monolayers of two-dimensional (2D) materials are stacked into van der Waals structures, interlayer electronic coupling can introduce entirely new properties, as exemplified by recent discoveries of moir\'e bands that host highly…

The proximity induced superconducting (S) correlations in ferromagnetic (F) layers of planar S/F hybrids are shown to be responsible for the appearance of a nonlinear interaction between the magnetic moments of the F layers. This…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-05-07 A. A. Kopasov , S. V. Mironov , A. S. Mel'nikov

We show, theoretically, that the phase of the interlayer exchange coupling (IEC) undergoes a topological change of approximately $2\pi$ as the chemical potential of the ferromagnetic (FM) lead moves across a hybridization gap (HG). The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-28 A. Umerski

The interlayer exchange coupling mediated by valence band electrons in all-semiconductor IV-VI magnetic/nonmagnetic superlattices is studied theoretically. A 3D tight-binding model, accounting for the band and magnetic structure of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Blinowski , P. Kacman

Ion-beam sputtering has been used to prepare Fe/Si multilayers on a variety of substrates and over a wide range of temperatures. Small-angle x-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy experiments show that the layers are heavily…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 A. Chaiken , R. P. Michel , M. A. Wall

We demonstrate, using computer simulations and a non-equilibrium Greens function approach, that the sign of the out-of-equilibrium interlayer exchange coupling (ooeIEC) can change in the presence of an externally applied electrical bias.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Nathan A. Walker , Alex D. Durie , Andrey Umerski