A Tight-Binding Study of Very Thin Transition Metal Film Magnetic Anisotropy

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We discuss shortly some problems that have been met in recent systematic calculations of the magnetic anisotropy energy ( MAE ) performed by the present authors as well as in studies of other investigators. As an example, we present MAE for ferromagnetic (001) bilayers with antiferromagnetic inter-plane coupling and for an antiferromagnetic (001) monolayer. It appears that antiferromagnetism can invoke specific effects and under certain conditions, both MAE and magnetic orbital moment are strongly enhanced.

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Acknoledgments

S. Pick would like to thank the Laboratoire de Physique du Solide for kind hospitality. The Laboratoire de Physique du Solide de Nancy is Unité Associee au CNRS 155.

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  1. Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, CS-182 23, Prague, 8, Czech Republic

    Š. Pick

  2. Laboratoire de Physique du Solide, BP. 239, 54506, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France

    H. Dreysse

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Pick, Š., Dreysse, H. A Tight-Binding Study of Very Thin Transition Metal Film Magnetic Anisotropy. MRS Online Proceedings Library 313, 297–302 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1557/PROC-313-297

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