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Monte Carlo simulations of ordering in ferromagnetic-antiferromagnetic bilayers

Shan-Ho Tsai, D. P. Landau, Thomas C. Schulthess

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/0301528

Abstract

Monte Carlo simulations have been used to study phase transitions on coupled anisotropic ferro/antiferromagnetic (FM/AFM) films of classical Heisenberg spins. We consider films of different thicknesses, with fully compensated exchange across the FM/AFM interface. We find indications of a phase transition on each film, occuring at different temperatures. It appears that both transition temperatures depend on the film thickness.

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