Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1560058 Computational Materials Science 2016 5 Pages PDF
Abstract

•The triangular heterostructures model exhibits additional magnetization plateaus.•The additional plateaus are mainly dependent on the lattice structure design.•The simulated results can be well understood from the energy landscape.•This work suggests a method of modulating the magnetization behaviors.

In this work, we study the magnetization process of triangular heterostructures formed by a number of multilayers which are coupled antiferromagnetically by Monte Carlo simulation of an Ising model. The antiferromagnetic in-layer and ferromagnetic inter-layer couplings are considered in each stack. Interestingly, it is observed that several additional magnetization plateaus can be stabilized by the consideration of the inter-stack coupling, in addition to the main 1/3 plateau observed in bulk system. Furthermore, the widths of these plateaus are mainly determined by the lattice structure and inter-stack coupling, and the heights are only dependent on the lattice structure. Thus, our work suggests a possible method of modulating the spin orders and magnetization plateaus in synthetic triangular heterostructures through detailed tuning the lattice structure.

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