INTERLAYER EXCHANGE COUPLING - A UNIFIED PHYSICAL PICTURE

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BRUNO, P
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[1] Institut d'Electronique Fondamentale, CNRS UA 22, Université Paris-Sud, F-91405 Orsay Cedex
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10.1016/0304-8853(93)91197-F
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T [工业技术];
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A unified theoretical description of the phenomenon of interlayer exchange coupling between ferromagnetic films separated by a paramagnetic spacer layer is proposed, in which the coupling is expressed in terms of the spin-asymmetry of the reflection at the paramagnetic-ferromagnetic interfaces. General expressions of the coupling constants are derived, both for the usual bilinear (Heisenberg) coupling and for the biquadratic term.
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