Competing interactions at the interface between ferromagnetic oxides revealed by spin-polarized neutron reflectometry
- Kim, J.-H. Max-Planck-Institut für Festköperforschung, Germany
- Vrejoiu, I. Max-Planck-Institut für Mikrostrukturphysik, Halle, Germany
- Khaydukov, Y. Max-Planck-Institut für Festköperforschung, Germany - Forschungsneutronenquelle Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM-II), Garching, Germany
- Keller, T. Max-Planck-Institut für Festköperforschung, Germany - Forschungsneutronenquelle Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM-II), Garching, Germany
- Stahn, J. Paul Scherrer Institut, Laboratory for Neutron Scattering, Villigen, Switzerland
- Rühm, A. Max-Planck-Institut für Intelligente Systeme, Stuttgart, Germany - Forschungsneutronenquelle Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM-II), Garching, Germany
- Satapathy, Dillip Kumar University of Fribourg, Department of Physics and Fribourg Centre for Nanomaterials, Switzerland
- Hinkov, V. Max-Planck-Institut für Festköperforschung, Germany - Quantum Matter Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
- Keimer, B. Max-Planck-Institut für Festköperforschung, Germany
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08.11.2012
Published in:
- Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. - 2012, vol. 86, no. 18, p. 180402
English
We have investigated the magnetization profiles in superlattices composed of the two ferromagnets La0.7Sr0.3MnO₃ and SrRuO₃ using spin-polarized neutron reflectometry. In combination with magnetometry, the neutron data indicate a noncollinear spin configuration where orientation of the Ru moments changes from in plane at the interface to out of plane deep inside the SrRuO₃ layers. The spin structure originates in a competition between antiferromagnetic exchange interactions of Mn and Ru moments across the interface, and the magnetocrystalline anisotropy of the Ru moments, and it is closely related to the “exchange spring” structures previously observed in multilayers composed of ferromagnetic elements and alloys.
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- Faculté des sciences et de médecine
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- Département de Physique
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- English
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- Physics
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- RERO DOC 31110
- DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.86.180402
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- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/302760
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