Interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and orbital magnetic moments of metallic multilayer films

Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) at metallic multilayer interfaces of Co thin films and heavy-metals X (X=Ir, Pt) was investigated from first principles calculations that treat spin-spirals with the spin-orbit coupling. The results predict that the sign of the DMI parameters depends on the he...

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Main Authors: Kento Yamamoto, Abdul-Muizz Pradipto, Kenji Nawa, Toru Akiyama, Tomonori Ito, Teruo Ono, Kohji Nakamura
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIP Publishing LLC 2017-05-01
Series:AIP Advances
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4973217