Magnetic Order-Disorder Transition Mediated by a Temperature-Driven Structural Transformation

Zharnikov, M., Dittschar, A., Kuch, W., Schneider, C. M. and Kirschner, J.

Physical Review Letters 76, pp 4620-4623 (1996)

Low energy electron diffraction and magneto-optical Kerr effect measurements were carried out in interleaved mode for epitaxially grown Fe/Cu(100) at temperature variation. What was believed to be a regular thermodynamic Curie transition in 4 monolayer Fe/Cu(100) is shown to be the result of a temperature-driven structural transformation.

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