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Localised magnetic impurity states in a transverse Ising ferromagnet: bulk and surface effects

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JOURNAL OF MAGNETISM AND MAGNETIC MATERIALS, 189 (2): 234-240 (1998)
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-8853(98)00224-8

Abstract

A Green's function formalism is used to calculate the localised states associated with a magnetic impurity in a ferromagnet described by the transverse Ising model. We consider both the cases of an infinite medium with an impurity and a semi-infinite medium with an impurity in the Nth layer (N = 1, 2...) from the free surface. The non-resonant excitations of the system due to the impurity (i.e., the `defect modes' outside the region of the bulk and surface spin waves) are calculated numerically for the high-temperature phase. Three situations are analysed, depending on the position of the impurity site: the impurity is in the surface (N = 1), the impurity is just below the surface (N = 2) and the impurity is in the bulk region (N greater than or equal to 3). (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

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