{
  "id": "0911.3854",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2009-11-19T17:55:31.000Z",
  "updated": "2009-11-19T17:55:31.000Z",
  "title": "Magnetic Anistropy due to the Casimir Effect",
  "authors": [
    "G. Metalidis",
    "P. Bruno"
  ],
  "comment": "7 pages, 4 figures",
  "journal": "Phys. Rev. A 81, 022123 (2010)",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevA.81.022123",
  "categories": [
    "quant-ph",
    "cond-mat.mes-hall"
  ],
  "abstract": "We consider the Casimir interaction between a ferromagnetic and a non-magnetic mirror, and show how the Casimir effect gives rise to a magnetic anisotropy in the ferromagnetic layer. The anisotropy is out-of-plane if the non-magnetic plate is optically isotropic. If the non-magnetic plate shows a uniaxial optical anisotropy (with optical axis in the plate plane), we find an in-plane magnetic anisotropy. In both cases, the energetically most favorable magnetization orientation is given by the competition between polar, longitudinal and transverse contributions to the magneto-optical Kerr effect, and will therefore depend on the interplate distance. Numerical results will be presented for a magnetic plate made out of iron, and non-magnetic plates of gold (optically isotropic), quartz, calcite and barium titanate (all uniaxially birefringent).",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2009-11-19T17:55:31.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "12.20.Ds",
      "03.70.+k",
      "12.90.+b",
      "78.20.Ls"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "casimir effect",
      "magnetic anistropy",
      "non-magnetic plate",
      "optically isotropic",
      "in-plane magnetic anisotropy"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Physical Review A",
      "year": 2010,
      "month": "Feb",
      "volume": 81,
      "number": 2,
      "pages": "022123"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 7,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2010PhRvA..81b2123M"
    }
  }
}