The Bilinear and Intrinsic Biquadratic Coupling in Magnetic Metallic Trilayers

We find the exact Green's functions of the Anderson s-d mixing model for magnetic trilayers with arbitrary spin canting angle between two ferromagnetic layers within the rneanfield theory of the on-site Coulomb repulsion. A bilinear exchange coupling and an intrinsic biquadratic coupling which does not vanish in the limit of flat interfaces is obtained by those Green's functions. It is shown that both of these couplings oscillate in the experimental range of the spacer thickness only when the s-d mixing is strong enough. When the mixing strength is large enough one finds that the oscillation period of the intrinsic biquadratic term is equal to half of the corresponding one for the bilinear term. We also find that the temperature dependence of those interlayer couplings is considerably enhanced with the decrease of the Hubbard coupling. It is also shown that the biquadratic coupling falls off much more rapidly with increasing temperature than the bilinear one.