Vol Page/Article: [ Previous / Next Abstract | Issue Table of Contents | Bottom of Page <#bottom> ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Physical Review Letters Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 167203 (2002) view MyArticles What is this? Full Text: [ PDF (196 kB) GZipped PS Order Document ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transverse and Lateral Structure of the Spin-Flop Phase in Fe/Cr Antiferromagnetic Superlattices V. Lauter-Pasyuk ,1,2,3 H. J. Lauter ,3 B. P. Toperverg ,4,5 L. Romashev ,6 and V. Ustinov 6 1Physik Department, TU München, D-85747 Garching, Germany 2Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, 141980 Dubna, Moscow Region, Russia 3Institut Laue Langevin, BP 156, F-38042, Grenoble Cedex 9, France 4Forschungszentrum Jülich, IFF, D-52425 Jülich, Germany 5Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, 188350 Gatchina, St. Petersburg, Russia 6Institute of Metal Physics, 62019 Ekaterinburg, Russia (Received 2 February 2002; published 26 September 2002) Direct evidence of the nonuniformly canted state of the spin-flop phase induced by a magnetic field applied to Fe/Cr(100) superlattices is obtained by polarized neutron reflectometry. It is unambiguously demonstrated that the magnetization of the alternating Fe layers is twisted through the multilayer stack proving a stable noncollinear configuration. The maximal tilt at the end layers progressively reduces towards the center of the multilayer. The set of tilt angles is deduced from a model-free data evaluation employing the supermatrix routine. Spin-flip off-specular scattering is determined by the in-plane magnetization fluctuations and is fitted by a theoretical model of domains. ©2002 The American Physical Society URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v89/e167203 doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.167203 PACS: 75.70.-i, 02.60.Ed, 61.12.Ha, 68.65.Cd Additional Information View ISI's Web of Science data for this article: [ Source Abstract | Related Articles ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Full Text: [ PDF (196 kB) GZipped PS Order Document ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ References Citation links [e.g., Phys. Rev. D 40, 2172 (1989)] go to online journal abstracts. Other links (see Reference Information ) are available with your current login. Navigation of links may be more efficient using a second browser window . # M. N. Baibich, J. M. 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