SSF state

Now for the Surface Spin Flop (SSF) state. The instability will ocur at the momentum antiparalell to the applied field. In our case this is at the 'bottom' of the layers.

At the first 'jump' the 'frustrated' momentum (the outer one) makes a flop of approximately 180 degres. Then this state hops inside the momenta, thus forming the 'domain wall', and at the end the configuration reaches the bulk spin flop state. (If you missed something, you can either reload the page, thus starting the movie again, or wait till the next loop) Continue

Major Márton