title: Noncollinear magnetism in ultrathin films with strong spin-orbit coupling from Ab Initio.
abstract: Fe and Pt are paradigms for ferromagnetism and strong spin-orbit coupling, respectively. Their combination--in an ultrathin Fe film on a Pt(111) substrate--is thus expected to modify the magnetic structures. We report on a theoretical investigation of a monolayer of Fe on Pt(111), using a generalized Heisenberg model that includes the complete spin interaction matrices I(ij) computed from first principles. We find a noncollinear periodic configuration that is strongly determined by the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. Taking into account a magnetic field to mimic recent experiments, this noncollinear structure solves the disagreement between the experimental magnetization and the average magnetization for a ferromagnetic system. The critical temperature decreases from 670 K to 590 K due to spin-orbit coupling.
authors.affiliation: Max-Planck-Lnstitut für Mikrostrukturphysik, Weinberg 2, D-06120 Halle, Saale, Germany.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Böttcher
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ernst
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Henk