Open AccessSurface spin slips in thin holmium films
Author(s) -
Fábio Henrique Silva Sales,
Ana L. Dantas,
A. S. Carriço
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
aip advances
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.421
H-Index - 58
ISSN - 2158-3226
DOI - 10.1063/1.4750030
Subject(s) - spins , holmium , thin film , basal plane , spin (aerodynamics) , condensed matter physics , anisotropy , surface (topology) , materials science , nanotechnology , physics , optics , geometry , laser , mathematics , thermodynamics
We report a theoretical investigation of new spin slips phases of thin holmium (Ho) films. The new phases originate from the loss of coordination of atoms in the near surface region, which affects the balance between exchange and anisotropy energies, favoring the alignment of near surface spins along the basal plane easy axis directions
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