
Five Layered FCC Ferromagnetic Films as Described by Modified Second Order Perturbed Heisenberg Hamiltonian
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|Nov 2016Abstract
For the first time, the 2nd order perturbed Heisenberg Hamiltonian with all the seven magnetic energy parameters was solved for fcc structured ferromagnetic films with five layers. Previously, the 2nd order perturbed Heisenberg Hamiltonian was solved for four layered ferromagnetic films under some special assumptions by us. However, the exact solution of 2nd order perturbed Heisenberg Hamiltonian without any special assumption is formulated in this manuscript. The magnetic easy and hard directions were determined using the angles corresponding to the energy minimum and maximum in the 3-D and 2-D plots. The shape of the 3-D plots doesn’t change with the number of layers except the position of spikes. However, the magnetic easy direction varies with the number of layers. Most of the theoretical data obtained by our model agree with the experimental data of ferromagnetic thin films.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4038/josuk.v11i1.7997 | Journal eISSN: 2513-2180
Language: English
Page range: 11 - 21
Published on: Nov 13, 2016
Published by: Faculty of Science of the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
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© 2016 P. Samarasekara, B. I. Warnakulasooriya, published by Faculty of Science of the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka
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