Phase diagram of ultrathin ferromagnetic films with perpendicular anisotropy. Academic Article

abstract

• Ultrathin ferromagnetic films with perpendicular spin anisotropy can possess an alternating up-down stripe-domain structure, with widths L. Considering the two inequivalent types of stripe domains to form a single unit, this structure may be thought of as a two-dimensional smectic crystal. It is subject to a weak stripe orientation energy. With increasing temperature the domain system changes from a smectic crystal phase to an "Ising nematic" phase, and then to a "tetragonal liquid" phase. We discuss its possible phase diagrams, in, T) space. This sequence of phases can occur whether or not the system ultimately undergoes a spin reorientation transition to a planar phase. 1995 The American Physical Society.

authors

• Abanov, Artem
• Pokrovsky, Valery
• Saslow, Wayne

published proceedings

• Phys Rev B Condens Matter

author list (cited authors)

• Abanov, A., Kalatsky, V., Pokrovsky, V. L., & Saslow, W. M.

citation count

• 166

complete list of authors

• Abanov, A||Kalatsky, V||Pokrovsky, VL||Saslow, WM

publication date

• January 1995

publisher

• American Physical Society (APS)  Publisher

published in

• Physical Review B (Condensed Matter)  Journal

keywords

• 2 Dimensions
• Inplane Magnetization
• Iron
• Magnetism
• Physics
• Stripe Domain-structures
• Transition

PubMed Central ID

• 9978253

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1103/physrevb.51.1023

URI

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.51.1023

start page

• 1023

end page

• 1038

volume

• 51

issue

• 2

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.51.1023