A new type of temperature driven reorientation transition in magnetic thin films

Details A new type of temperature driven reorientation transition in magnetic thin films A new type of temperature driven reorientation transition in magnetic thin films

2006-10-18

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0610504v1

Eur. Phys. J. B 53, 463-469 (2006)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

7 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in EPJB

Scientific paper

10.1140/epjb/e2006-00410-8

We present a new type of temperature driven spin reorientation transition (SRT) in thin films. It can occur when the lattice and the shape anisotropy favor different easy directions of the magnetization. Due to different temperature dependencies of the two contributions the effective anisotropy may change its sign and thus the direction of the magnetization as a function of temperature may change. Contrary to the well-known reorientation transition caused by competing surface and bulk anisotropy contributions the reorientation that we discuss is also found in film systems with a uniform lattice anisotropy. The results of our theoretical model study may have experimental relevance for film systems with positive lattice anisotropy, as e.g. thin iron films grown on copper.

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