Eur. Phys. J. B 81, 203-207 (2011)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2011-20059-4

Effect of vacancies on the spin density waves onset in Fe/Cr superlattices

¹ IPCMS, UMR 7504 CNRS-UDS, 23 rue du Loess, BP43, 67034 Strasbourg Cedex 2, France
² Institut de Physique, Université de Strasbourg, 3 rue de l'Université, 67000 Strasbourg, France
³ IMN, 2, rue de la Houssinière, BP 32229, 44322 Nantes, France
⁴ ZAO NPO “Spektr”, 14 Zapadnaya promzona, 623700 Berezovskiy, Russia
⁵ Institute of Metal Physics, UD of RAS, 620041 Ekaterinburg, Russia

Corresponding author: ^a parlebas@ipcms.u-strasbg.fr

Received: 21 January 2011
Published online: 25 May 2011

Abstract

The spin density wave's onset in Cr based superlattices is considered within proximity of Fe interlayer boundaries and the effect of randomly located vacancies in Cr monolayers is examined. The study is performed for Fe/Cr, Fe/Cr/V superlattices with odd and even number of Cr monolayers. It is shown that the number of Cr monolayer determines the spin density wave's nodes onset in the perfect Fe/Cr super lattices. Pinning of Cr magnetic moments on vacancies destroys this determination and leads to appearance or disappearance of nodes.