Interlayer Exchange Coupling Beyond the Proximity Force Approximation
arXiv:1007.4413 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.82.094415
Abstract
Ion bombardment has been shown to be capable of enhancing the interlayer exchange coupling in a trilayer system that exhibits giant magnetoresistance. We demonstrate that this phenomenon can be derived from the phase coherence among scattered paths within the two rough interfaces when their topographies are correlated. In the case of mild corrugations, our method reproduces the predictions by the proximity force approximation which does not consider the interference. When the characteristic Fourier conjugate of the tomography becomes large and comparable to the Fermi momentum, interesting new features arise and can only be captured by our more general approach. Among our findings, the scenario of an enhanced interlayer exchange coupling due to the interface roughness is explained, along with how it depends on the sample parameters. An additional channel for the resonant transmission is identified due to extra scattering paths from the roughness.
9 pages, 7 figures, submitted to PRB (2010)
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