Fig. 3
From: On the nature of spin reorientation transition thermal hysteresis in NiO(111)/Fe(110) bilayers
(a) Simulated free energy density spanned across the two-dimensional \(\:{\uptheta\:}\)-Temperature space. Solid line marks the real magnetic anisotropy flow in NiO/Fe system as determined from MOKE and simulations. (b) Simulated two-dimensional \(\:{\text{K}}_{1}\left({\text{K}}_{2}\right)\:\)in-plane magnetic anisotropy space for Fe(110) system with NiO/Fe anisotropy flow marked as well. Dashed regions represent bistability phase where hysteresis of SRT can be observed. Insets show local energy vs. \(\:{\uptheta\:}\) dependencies and simulated M(H) loops for two characteristic in-plane orientation of external magnetic field H.
