| Abstract: | The specific heats of both a two-layer ferromagnetic superlattice and atwo-layer ferrimagnetic one are studied. It is found that the spin quantumnumbers, the interlayer and intralayer exchange couplings, the anisotropy,the applied magnetic field, and the temperature all affect the specificheat of these superlattices. For both the ferromagnetic and ferrimagneticsuperlattices, the specific heat decreases with increasing the spin quantumnumber, the absolute value of interlayer exchange coupling, intralayerexchange coupling, and anisotropy, while it increases with increasingtemperature at low temperatures. When an applied magnetic field is enhanced, the specific heat decreases in the two-layer ferromagnetic superlattice, while it is almost unchanged in the two-layer ferrimagnetic superlattice at low field range at low temperatures. |
