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We demonstrate that strong inter-orbital interaction is very efficient to achieve superconductivity due to magnetic fluctuations in the iron pnictides. Fermi surface states that are coupled by the antiferromagnetic wave vector are often of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 Junhua Zhang , Rastko Sknepnek , Rafael M. Fernandes , Joerg Schmalian

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

By means of first principles calculations we investigate the nature of exchange coupling in ferromagnetic bcc Fe on a microscopic level. Analyzing the basic electronic structure reveals a drastic difference between the $3d$ orbitals of…

The isotropic S=1/2 antiferromagnetic spin ladder with additional four-spin ring exchange is studied perturbatively in the strong coupling regime with the help of cluster expansion technique, and by means of bosonization in the weak…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Mueller , T. Vekua , H. -J. Mikeska

This work reports on the magnetic interlayer coupling between two amorphous CoFeB layers, separated by a thin Ru spacer. We observe an antiferromagnetic coupling which oscillates as a function of the Ru thickness x, with the second…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Wiese , T. Dimopoulos , M. Ruhrig , J. Wecker , H. Bruckl , G. Reiss

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 present transport and structural data from epitaxial (100) and (111) Au/Fe multilayers grown by molecular beam epitaxy. From their analysis, we conclude that an electron channelling mechanism, due to strong specular reflection of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 D. T. Dekadjevi , P. A. Ryan , B. J. Hickey , B. D. Fulthorpe , B. K. Tanner

Spin-wave resonance measurements were performed in the mixed magnetic phase regime of a Pd-doped FeRh epilayer that appears as the first-order ferromagnetic-antiferromagnetic phase transition takes place. It is seen that the measured value…

Angle resolved-Auger-photoelectron coincidence spectroscopy (AR-APECS) has been exploited to investigate the role that electron correlation plays in the exchange-coupling at the ferromagnetic/antiferromagnetic interface of a Fe/CoO bilayer…

Using first-principles density functional theory, we investigate the interfacial magnetoelectric coupling in a tri-component superlattice composed of a ferromagnetic metal (FM), ferroelectric (FE), and normal metal (NM). Using Fe/FE/Pt as a…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-04-29 Jaekwang Lee , Na Sai , Tianyi Cai , Qian Niu , Alexander A. Demkov

We study the exchange coupling mediated by itinerant carriers with spin-orbit interaction by both analytic and numeric approaches. The mediated exchange coupling is non-collinear and its spatial trends depend on the Fermi surface topology…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hsin-Hua Lai , Wen-Min Huang , Hsiu-Hau Lin

Magnetic thin films at ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) leak angular momentum, which may be absorbed by adjacent layers. This phenomenon, known as spin pumping, is manifested by an increase in the resonance linewidth ($\Delta H$), and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-08 Masoumeh Fazlali , Martina Ahlberg , Mykola Dvornik , Johan Åkerman

Using first principles calculations, we determined the epitaxial-strain dependence of the ground state of the 1:1 SrCrO$_3$/SrTiO$_3$ superlattice. The superlattice layering leads to significant changes in the electronic states near the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-09-16 Yuanjun Zhou , Karin M. Rabe

Interlayer coupling is of vital importance for manipulating physical properties, e.g. electronic bandgap, in two-dimensional materials. However, tuning magnetic proper-ties in these materials is yet to be addressed. Here, we found a striped…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-06-20 Cong Wang , Xieyu Zhou , Yuhao Pan , Jingsi Qiao , Xianghua Kong , Chao-Cheng Kaun , Wei Ji

Ferromagnetic resonance properties of F$_1$/f/F$_2$/AF multilayers, where weakly ferromagnetic spacer f is sandwiched between strongly ferromagnetic layers F$_1$ and F$_2$, with F$_1$ being magnetically soft and F$_2$ - magnetically hard…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-25 A. F. Kravets , A. I. Tovstolytkin , Yu. I. Dzhezherya , D. M. Polishchuk , I. M. Kozak , V. Korenivski

Magnetization and magnetoresistivity studies of Fe/V (001) superlattices are reported. The first giant magnetoresistance peak with respect to the vanadium and iron layer thicknesses is investigated. The interlayer antiferromagnetic coupling…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-31 A. Broddefalk , R. Mathieu , P. Nordblad , P. Blomqvist , R. Wäppling , J. Lu , E. Olsson

We consider mechanism of exchange coupling based on interaction between electrons in nonmagnetic layer. Depending on ratio of inverse time of diffusion of electrons between ferromagnetic layers and ferromagnetic splitting of conducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 Zyuzin A. Yu

Ferromagnet/Superconductor/Ferromagnet (F/S/F) trilayers constitute the core of a superconducting spin valve. The switching effect of the spin valve is based on interference phenomena occurring due to the proximity effect at the S/F…

Metallic superlattices where the magnetization vectors in the adjacent ferromagnetic layers are antiferromagnetically coupled by the interlayer exchange coupling through nonmagnetic spacer layers are systems available for the systematic…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-01 Hiroto Masuda , Takeshi Seki , Yong-Chang Lau , Takahide Kubota , Koki Takanashi

We investigate superconductivity in a two-band system with an electron- and hole-like band, where one of the bands is away from the Fermi level (or incipient). We argue that the incipient band contributes significantly to spin-fluctuation…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-17 A. Linscheid , S. Maiti , Y. Wang , S. Johnston , P. J. Hirschfeld