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Comparison of the nucleation fields based on Eqs (10) and (12) for Nd2Fe14B/α-Fe multilayers, demonstrating excellent agreement between the two formulas. The hard layer thickness is set as 12 nm in calculating the nucleation fields from Eq. (10).