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The in-plane and off-plane magnetic anisotropy energies (MAE) of bcc (110) transition-metal monolayers and bilayers are determined by calculating the spin-orbit coupling effects, the spin-density distribution, and the electronic spectrum self-consistently for each magnetization direction. The MAE shows a complicated behavior as a function of d-band filling and is very sensitive to film thickness. Alternations of the easy and hard axes between the off-plane and different in-plane directions are identified as well as transitions between uniaxial and multiaxial MAE surfaces. Remarkably, the in-plane anisotropy is often of the same order of magnitude as the off-plane anisotropy.
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