Determination of the Magnetic Coupling in the Co/Cu/Co(100) System with Momentum-Resolved Quantum Well States

Autor: Z. Q. Qiu, Roland Kawakami, Eli Rotenberg, N. V. Smith, Hyuk J. Choi, Ernesto J. Escorcia-Aparicio, J. H. Wolfe
Rok vydání: 1999
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Zdroj: Physical Review Letters. 82:4098-4101
ISSN: 1079-7114
0031-9007
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.82.4098
Popis: The relation between the quantum well (QW) states and the oscillatory magnetic coupling in Co/Cu/Co grown on Cu(100) was investigated by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, magnetic x-ray linear dichroism, and the surface magneto-optic Kerr effect. The QW states were explained quantitatively using the phase accumulation model, and the derived QW phases at the Cu/Co interface were used to calculate the interlayer coupling. The agreement between this calculation and the experimental result reveals that the phase relation between the long- and short-period couplings is determined by the phase relation of the QW states in k-space.
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