%0 Journal Article
%T Surface spin slips in thin holmium films
%A F. H. S. Sales
%A A. L. Dantas
%A A. S. Carri£żo
%J AIP Advances
%D 2012
%I AIP Publishing LLC
%R 10.1063/1.4750030
%X We report a theoretical investigation of new spin slips phases of thin holmium (Ho) films. The new phases originate from the loss of coordination of atoms in the near surface region, which affects the balance between exchange and anisotropy energies, favoring the alignment of near surface spins along the basal plane easy axis directions.
%U http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1063/1.4750030