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The change in the reflectivity of a metallic magnetic multilayer that exhibits giant magnetoresistance for a monochromatic electromagnetic plane wave with polarization along the magnetization (s polarization) in response to a change from the antiferromagnetic magnetic configuration of the multilayer to the ferromagnetic configuration is investigated. This magneto-optical effect is treated in the effective-medium approximation, in which the dielectric constant needed is found analytically with consideration of the interface roughness scattering of electrons. It is shown in the example of an Fe/Cu multilayer that the effect amounts to ∼0.7%. The representation found for the complex conductivity is convenient in a special case for investigating the magnetoresistive effect.
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Zh. Éksp. Teor. Fiz. 114, 1101–1114 (September 1998)
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Kubrakov, N.F., Zvezdin, A.K., Zvezdin, K.A. et al. New intensity magneto-optical effect in materials exhibiting giant magnetoresistance. J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 87, 600–607 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.558699
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