Magnetocrystalline anisotropy energy for adatoms and monolayers on non-magnetic substrates: where does it comes from?

Ondrej Sipr, Sven Bornemann, Hubert Ebert +1

The substrate contribution to the magnetic anisotropy energy (MAE) of supported nanostructures can be quantified by a site-selective manipulation of the spin-orbit coupling (SOC) a…