The Curie temperature of thin ferromagnetic films

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Volumn 21, Issue 37, 2009, Pages

  Rausch, Roman ^a   Nolting, Wolfgang ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; CALCULATED VALUES; CLUSTER METHOD; EIGENVALUE PROBLEM; EXPLICIT EXPRESSIONS; HEISENBERG MODELS; MEAN FIELD; MOLECULAR FIELD APPROXIMATION; SURFACE LAYERS; THIN FERROMAGNETIC FILMS; THREE MODELS; UNKNOWN PARAMETERS;

CRITICAL CURRENTS; CURIE TEMPERATURE; DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FERROMAGNETISM; MEAN FIELD THEORY; MONOLAYERS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS;

EID: 70349575490     PISSN: 09538984     EISSN: 1361648X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/21/37/376002     Document Type: Article

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