Critical behavior of the uniaxial ferromagnetic monolayer Fe(110) on W(110)

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作者
Elmers, HJ
Hauschild, J
Gradmann, U
机构
[1] Physikalisches Institut, Technische Universität Clausthal
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PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 1996年 / 54卷 / 21期
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10.1103/PhysRevB.54.15224
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T [工业技术];
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08 ;
摘要
The critical behavior of a ferromagnetic monolayer has been investigated experimentally for the case of the thermodynamically stable pseudomorphic monolayer Fe(110) on W(110). The nearly ideal monolayer samples were composed of monolayer Fe(110) stripes, grown by step flow from the atomic steps of the W(110) substrate, with a distribution of stripe widths around a mean value of 40 nm, and virtually length. The magnetic properties were measured by spin-polarized low-energy electron diffraction, which could be done in weak magnetic fields up to 2 Oe. The monolayer samples show uniaxial magnetic anisotropy with the easy axis [1(1) over bar0$] in the film plane. Magnetization tails above Tc were shown to be a result of convolution of the critical power law with the monolayer stripe width distribution. Using an appropriate deconvolution, critical power laws could be established for both magnetization M and susceptibility chi, with critical exponents beta = (0.134 +/- 0.003) and gamma = (2.8 +/- 0.2), corresponding to predictions of a two-dimensional anisotropic Heisenberg model.
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页码:15224 / 15233
页数:10
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