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Some recent developments of first-principles local density electronic
structure theory to the determination of the properties of interfaces
and multilayers are described. These include (i) both bilinear and biq
uadratic exchange coupling and (ii) spin-orbit coupling induced phenom
ena such as magneto-crystalline anisotropy, orbital magnetic moments a
nd magnetic circular dichroism.