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Homogenization of ferromagnetic multilayers inthe presence of surface energies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 May 2007
Abstract
We study the homogenization process of ferromagnetic multilayers in the presence of surface energies: super-exchange, also called interlayer exchange coupling, and surface anisotropy. The two main difficulties are the non-linearity of the Landau-Lifshitz equation and the absence of a good sequence of extension operators for the multilayer geometry. First, we consider the case when surface anisotropy is the dominant term, then the case when the magnitude of the super-exchange interaction is inversely proportional to the interlayer distance. We establish the homogenized equation in these two situations.
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- ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , April 2007 , pp. 305 - 330
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- © EDP Sciences, SMAI, 2007
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