Coarsening of antiferromagnetic domains in multilayers: The key role of magnetocrystalline anisotropy

D. L. Nagy; L. Bottyán; B. Croonenborghs; L. Deák; B. Degroote; J. Dekoster; H. J. Lauter; O. Leupold; J. Meersschaut; A. Petrenko; R. Rüffer; H. Spiering; E. Szilágyi; V. Lauter-Pasyuk; M. Major; O. Nikonov

Coarsening of antiferromagnetic domains in multilayers: The key role of magnetocrystalline anisotropy

D. L. Nagy, L. Bottyán, B. Croonenborghs, L. Deák, B. Degroote, J. Dekoster, H. J. Lauter, O. Leupold, J. Meersschaut, A. Petrenko, R. Rüffer, H. Spiering, E. Szilágyi, V. Lauter-Pasyuk, M. Major, O. Nikonov

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Abstract

Coarsening of antiferromagnetic domains in multilayers was studied using magnetocrystalline anisotropy. A secondary domain state consisting of at least 1 order of magnitude larger domain was created when a small field along the layer magnetizations induces a bulk-spin-flop transition. It is found that the domain-size distribution is reproducibly dependent on the magnetic prehistory and the condition for domain coarsening is shown to be the equilibrium of the external field energy with the anisotropy energy.

Original language	English
Article number	157202
Pages (from-to)	1572021-1572024
Number of pages	4
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	88
Issue number	15
State	Published - Apr 15 2002

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Nagy, D. L., Bottyán, L., Croonenborghs, B., Deák, L., Degroote, B., Dekoster, J., Lauter, H. J., Leupold, O., Meersschaut, J., Petrenko, A., Rüffer, R., Spiering, H., Szilágyi, E., Lauter-Pasyuk, V., Major, M., & Nikonov, O. (2002). Coarsening of antiferromagnetic domains in multilayers: The key role of magnetocrystalline anisotropy. Physical Review Letters, 88(15), 1572021-1572024. Article 157202.

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Coarsening of antiferromagnetic domains in multilayers: The key role of magnetocrystalline anisotropy

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