Substrate-induced magnetic ordering of rare-earth overlayers

Abstract

We have studied the magnetic ordering of terbium overlayers on Cu(100) and Ni(111), using angle-resolved photoemission. The 5${\mathit{p}}_{3/2}$ to 5${\mathit{p}}_{1/2}$ shallow-core-level branching ratios in different photoemission geometries provide a measure of the magnetic ordering in rare-earth-metal overlayers as a result of final-state effects in photoemission. We find that ferromagnetic substrates order paramagnetic terbium overlayers. This induced magnetic ordering is not a crystal-field effect and can be modeled by Ginzburg-Landau theory. Application of Ginzburg-Landau theory to our results suggests that the correlation length of paramagnetic terbium ${\mathrm{\ensuremath{\kappa}}}^{\mathrm{\ensuremath{-}}1}$ is between 2.5 and 3.5 \AA{}. Reversible increases in the extent of magnetic ordering at temperatures below the Tb Curie temperature are observed for terbium overlayers on both Cu(100) and Ni(111).