  The ion-bombardment induced evolution of intermixing is studied by molecular
dynamics simulations and by Auger electron spectroscopy depth profiling
analysis (AESD) in Cu/Co multilayer. It has been shown that from AESD we can
derive the low-energy mixing rate and which can be compared with the simulated
values obtained by molecular dynamics (MD) simulations.The overall agreement is
reasonably good hence MD can hopefully be used to estimate the rate of
intermixing in various interface systems.
