Monte Carlo study on bilayer thin films magnetic properties dependence with discontinouos anisotropy parameters

• Authors: Eugen Bîrsan
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In the last few years there has been significant interest in the field of thin films, due to numerous specific phenomena related to the low dimension of these systems, and to the large opportunities in development of high technologies based on their specific magnetic and electronic properties. When dealing with systems of reduced dimensionality it is important to take into account the influence of magnetic anisotropies. In this paper we investigate the magnetic properties of bilayer thin film. This behavior is modeled using Monte Carlo simulations, in the Extended Anisotropic Heisenberg Model. The magnetization, out-of-plane and in-plane magnetic susceptibilities, and also the specific heat bearings according to temperature are investigated in order to find the potential magnetic ordering phases and the critical temperatures, for two sets parameter assignments. For quasi-uniform anisotropy parameters of the film we detect the ferromagnetism-paramagnetism transition and then, by changing the model parameters values, we relieve a short range ferromagnetic ordering phase arising from the antiferromagnetic base layer coupling influence and from easy-plane anisotropy discontinuity on the layers interface.

Keywords

EN

anisotropic Heisenberg model; Monte Carlo simulations; magnetic properties of thin films

Discipline

• 75.10.Hk: Classical spin models
• 75.70.Ak: Magnetic properties of monolayers and thin films
• 75.40.Mg: Numerical simulation studies

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Open Physics
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 296-305

Dates

published

1 - 6 - 2008

online

26 - 3 - 2008

Contributors

author

Eugen Bîrsan

• Physics Department, “Lucian Blaga” University, str. Dr I.Ratiu, No.5–7, 550024, Sibiu, Romania

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/s11534-008-0014-4