Effect of electron interactions on the conductivity and exchange coupling energy of disordered metallic magnetic multilayer

Abstract

We consider the effect of electron-electron interactions on the current-in-plane (CIP) conductivity and exchange coupling energy of a disordered metallic magnetic multilayer. We analyze its dependence on the value of ferromagnetic splitting of conducting electrons and ferromagnetic layers relative magnetizations orientation. We show that contribution to the CIP conductivity and exchange coupling energy as a periodic function of the angle of magnetizations relative orientation experience $ 2\pi \to \pi $ transition depending on the characteristic energies: ferromagnetic splitting of the conducting electrons and the Thouless energy of paramagnetic layer.