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The magnetocrystalline anisotropy energy for uniaxial anisotropy is given by
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(3.23) |
The gradient is given by
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(3.24) |
and we get the result
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(3.26) |
This can be rewritten in matrix notation as
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(3.27) |
with
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(3.28) |
Werner Scholz
2003-06-08