Calculation of Half-Metal,Debye and Curie Temperatures of Co_2 VAl Compound: First Principles Study

By FP-LAPW calculations, the structural, elastic, Debye and Curie temperatures, electronic and magnetic properties of Co2 VAl are investigated. The results indicate that Ferromagnetic(FM) phase is more stable than AntiFerromagnetic(AFM) and Non-magnetic(NM) ones. In addition, C11–C12 0, C44 0, and B 0 so Co2 VAl is an elastically stable material with high Debye temperature. Also, the B/G ratio exhibits a ductility behavior. The relatively high Curie temperature provides it as a favorable material for spintronic application. It's electronic and magnetic properties are studied by GGA+U approach leading to a 100% spin polarization at Fermi level.     

Orbital order and ferrimagnetic properties of Sr8CaRe3Cu4O24

By means of the LSDA+U (local spin density approximation plus Hubbard U) method and the Green function method, we investigate the electronic and magnetic properties of the new material of Sr8CaRe3Cu4O24. Our LSDA+U calculation shows that this system is an insulator of ferrimagnetism with a net magnetic moment of 1.01 micro(B)/f.u., which is in good agreement with the experiment. It is the nonmagnetic Re atoms that induce an orbital order of d electrons of Cu atoms, which is responsible for the strong exchange interaction and the high magnetic transition temperature. Based on the LSDA+U results, we introduce an effective model for the spin degrees of freedom and investigate the finite-temperature properties by the Green function method. The obtained results are consistent with the experimental results, indicating that the spin-alternating Heisenberg model is suitable for this compound.     

Valence fluctuations in CeIn3 under the effect of pressure

The impacts of pressure on the structural and electronic properties of CeIn₃ have been calculated. The calculations are performed in the presence and the absence of spin-orbit interaction as well as GGA+U using density functional theory within the PBE-GGA approximation. It is shown that energy and density of states analyses are considerably influenced by the spin-orbit interaction. The spin and orbital magnetic moments of Ce are calculated under pressure up to 22 GPa. An almost linear relation is observed between the magnetic moment and the density of states of Ce-4f at Fermi level. At ambient pressure, a good agreement between the values of the electric field gradients, EFG, and bulk modulus with experimental results is observed. The strongest anisotropy in charge distribution originates from In-5p orbital, which has the main contribution to EFG.     

Ni5Nd2B4的电子结构和磁性能研究

采用LSDA（Local spin-density approximation）近似及LSDA+U（在位库伦势）近似模拟金属间化合物Ni5Nd2B4的磁性能对于R-M-B合金特性的研究具有重要意义。研究结果显示,LSDA近似下,Ni5Nd2B4具备金属导体性质,晶体结构中最紧邻Ni、B原子间杂化成键,最紧邻Ni-Ni共价成键,Nd、B原子形成成键分子轨道作用,Ni原子间存在自旋消弱现象;LSDA+U近似下,Nd原子磁矩提供体系磁性来源,由于自旋排斥作用Ni原子电子与Nd原子电子自旋方向相反,体系在U值约为6.35eV的作用下能较理想的处理体系电子作用。     

Ni5Nd2B4的电子结构和磁性能研究

采用LSDA（Local spin-density approximation）近似及LSDA+U（在位库伦势）近似模拟金属间化合物Ni5Nd2B4的磁性能对于R-M-B合金特性的研究具有重要意义。研究结果显示,LSDA近似下,Ni5Nd2B4具备金属导体性质,晶体结构中最紧邻Ni、B原子间杂化成键,最紧邻Ni-Ni共价成键,Nd、B原子形成成键分子轨道作用,Ni原子间存在自旋消弱现象;LSDA+U近似下,Nd原子磁矩提供体系磁性来源,由于自旋排斥作用Ni原子电子与Nd原子电子自旋方向相反,体系在U值约为6.35eV的作用下能较理想的处理体系电子作用。     

Effect of Si substitution on electronic structure and magnetic properties of Heusler compounds Co2TiAl1−xSix

The electronic structures of Co-based Heusler compounds CoTiAl_1−xSi_x (x=0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75 and 1) are calculated by first-principles using the full potential linearized augmented plane wave (FP-LAPW) method within GGA and LSDA+U scheme. Particular emphasis was put on the role of the main group elements. In recent years, the GGA calculations of Co₂TiAl (x=0) and Co₂TiSi (x=1) indicated that they are half-metallic, but the electronic structure of this compound with x=0.25, 0.5 and 0.75 has not been reported yet, neither theoretically nor experimentally. The calculated results reveal that these are half-metallic and exhibit an energy gap in the minority spin state and also show 100% spin polarization. The substitution of Al by Si leads to an increase in the number of valence electrons, with increasing x. Our calculated results clearly show that with the Si doping, the lattice parameter linearly decreases; bulk modulus increases, and the total magnetic moment increases. The calculated energy gap in the minority spin state, using GGA scheme, was smaller than that obtained by using LSDA+U scheme. The outcomes of this research also show that the Co-3d DOS and therefore, the magnetic properties of compounds are dependent on electron concentration of the main group elements and it will affect the degree of p-d orbital occupation.     

Theoretical investigation on structural, magnetic and electronic properties of ferromagnetic GdN under pressure

The tight-binding linear muffin tin orbital (TB-LMTO) method within the local density approximation is used to calculate structural, electronic and magnetic properties of GdN under pressure. Both nonmagnetic (NM) and magnetic calculations are performed. The structural and magnetic stabilities are determined from the total energy calculations. The magnetic to ferromagnetic (FM) transition is not calculated. Magnetically, GdN is stable in the FM state, while its ambient structure is found to be stable in the NaCl-type (B₁) structure. We predict NaCl-type to CsCl-type structure phase transition in GdN at a pressure of 30.4 GPa. In a complete spin of FM GdN the electronic band picture of one spin shows metallic, while the other spin shows its semiconducting behavior, resulting in half-metallic behavior at both ambient and high pressures. We have, therefore, calculated electronic band structures, equilibrium lattice constants, cohesive energies, bulk moduli and magnetic moments for GdN in the B₁ and B₂ phases. The magnetic moment, equilibrium lattice parameter and bulk modulus is calculated to be 6.99 μ_B, 4.935 Å and 192.13 GPa, respectively, which are in good agreement with the experimental results.     

Structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of Co-doped ZnO

Density functional theory based calculations have been carried out to study structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of Zn1-xCoxO (x = 0, 0.25, 0.50, 0.75) in the zinc-blende phase, and the generalized gradient approximation proposed by Wu and Cohen has been used. Our calculated lattice constants decrease while the bulk moduli increase with the increase of Co 2+ concentration. The calculated spin polarized band structures show the metallic behavior of Co-doped ZnO for both the up and the down spin cases with various doping concentrations. Moreover, the electron population is found to shift from the Zn-O bond to the Co-O bond with the increase of Co 2+ concentration. The total magnetic moment, the interstitial magnetic moment, the valence and the conduction band edge spin splitting energies, and the exchange constants decrease, while the local magnetic moments of Zn, Co, O, the exchange spin splitting energies, and crystal field splitting energies increase with the increase of dopant concentration.     

Theoretical calculations of structural,electronic, and elastic properties of CdSe_(1-x)Te_x:A first principles study

The plane wave pseudo-potential method was used to investigate the structural, electronic, and elastic properties of Cd Se_(1-x)Te_x in the zinc blende phase. It is observed that the electronic properties are improved considerably by using LDA + U as compared to the LDA approach. The calculated lattice constants and bulk moduli are also comparable to the experimental results. The cohesive energies for pure Cd Se and Cd Te binary and their mixed alloys are calculated. The second-order elastic constants are also calculated by the Lagrangian theory of elasticity. The elastic properties show that the studied material has a ductile nature.     

LiV2O4: electronic,magnetic structure and heavy-fermion behaviour from first principles

First principles studies based on density functional theory (DFT) calculations within the generalized gradient approximations (GGA) and GGA + U approach using the full-potential, augmented plane wave + local orbitals (APW + lo) method, as implemented in the WIEN2k code, have been used to investigate the structural, electronic and magnetic properties of spinel-structure LiV₂O₄, in particular regarding the heavy fermion (HF) behaviour. The calculations were performed for ferromagnetic, anti-ferromagnetic, and ferrimagnetic configurations using two kinds of magnetic structures (tetragonal and rhombohedral). The GGA results showed that the Fermi energy lies in the V 3d (t_2g) bands with 1.5 electrons per V atom occupying this band, and the V 3d bands are separated by a ～1.9 eV energy gap from the O 2p bands and further split into t_2g and e_g bands with a ～1.0 eV energy gap, which are in good agreement with the photoelectron spectra. The GGA + U method indicates that the ground state of LiV₂O₄ is the tetragonal anti-ferromagnetic configuration with metallic character, and ferromagnetic order character at slightly higher energy, which is consistent with experimental result. The geometric frustration and hybridization between 3d (V) and 2p (O) could induce spin fluctuation and help to explain the instability of specific heat, susceptibility and HF behaviour.     

Theoretical studies on the electronic structure and magnetic properties of Cu(2,5-dmpz)Cl2

First-principles calculations have been performed to study the electronic structure, the metallic and magnetic properties of Cu(2,5-dmpz)Cl₂. The calculations are based on the density functional theory (DFT) with the generalized gradient approximation (GGA) and the full-potential-linearized-augmented plane wave (FPLAPW) method. The total energy, magnetic moment, density of states (DOS) and electronic band structure are calculated. The results reveal that the compound has a stable semiconductive antiferromagnetic (AFM) ground state and a semiconductive ferromagnetic (FM) metastable state, which is in good agreement with the experimental results. Based on the spin distribution and the DOS, it is found that the spin magnetic moment is mainly from the Cu²⁺, and with relative small contribution from Cl, N atoms.     

Effect of Coulomb repulsion on spin and orbital magnetism of cobalt–benzene complex: A relativistic density functional study

We have demonstrated electronic configurations and magnetic properties of single Co adatom on benzene (Bz) molecule in the framework of relativistic density functional theory. A sequence of fixed spin moment (FSM) calculations were carried out with and without Coulomb repulsion (U). We have investigated that varying the strength of Coulomb repulsion results to different equilibrium positions for the Co adatom on benzene molecule. It was shown that inclusion of the on-site Coulomb repulsion in the Co 3d orbitals affects significantly the geometry of Co–Bz complex. We also found two stable low-spin and high-spin multiplicities for the complex. The nature of the high-spin configuration was explained according to the Hubbard electron–electron correlation in 3d shell of the Co adatom. Our FSM results indicate that the high-spin state is a global minimum in the presence of Hubbard parameter U. The relativistic spin–orbit coupling and using orbital polarization correction induce considerable orbital magnetism in both low and high spin states of the Co–Bz complex. We have also calculated magnetic anisotropy energies for two spin states and we found out that an out-of-plane magnetic orientation of Co adatom is more favorable in the low spin state whereas the Coulomb repulsion (U = 2 eV and U = 4 eV) predicts an in-plane magnetic orientation for Co adatom. Our findings can be implicitly taken into account for the extended system of added single Co atom on graphene.     

Exchange coupling and helical spin order in the triangular lattice antiferromagnet CuCrO₂ using first principles

The magnetic and electronic properties of the geometrically frustrated triangular antiferromagnet CuCrO2 are investigated by first principles through density functional theory calculations within the generalized gradient approximations (GGA)+U scheme. The spin exchange interactions up to the third nearest neighbours in the ab plane as well as the coupling between adjacent layers are calculated to examine the magnetism and spin frustration. It is found that CuCrO2 has a natural two-dimensional characteristic of the magnetic interaction. Using Monte-Carlo simulation, we obtain the Neel temperature to be 29.9 K, which accords well with the experimental value of 24 K. Based on non-collinear magnetic structure calculations, we verify that the incommensurate spiral-spin structure with (110) spiral plane is believable for the magnetic ground state, which is consistent with the experimental observations. Due to intra-layer geometric spin frustration, parallel helical-spin chains arise along the a, b, or a + b directions, each with a screw-rotation angle of about 120°. Our calculations of the density of states show that the spin frustration plays an important role in the change of d-p hybridization, while the spin-orbit coupling has a very limited influence on the electronic structure.     

Magnetic properties,electronic structure,and optical properties of the filled skutterudite BaFe4Sb12

The magnetic properties, electronic structure, and optical properties of the filled skutterudite BaFe₄Sb₁₂ are calculated by the first-principles full-potential linearized augmented plane wave (FPLAPW) plus local orbital method. It is found that the local spin density approximation (LSDA) method appears more accurate than the generalized gradient approximation (GGA) method in calculating the electronic structures and optical properties of this compound. Furthermore, our calculated lattice constant and spin magnetic moments with the LSDA method are in overall better agreement with experiment. In contrast with recent experiment, our calculations are in good agreement with experimental reflectivity spectra and optical conductivity spectrum.     

Ab initio simulation of the electron structure and optical spectroscopy of ErRhGe compound

The results of investigation of the electronic structure and optical properties of ErRhGe are presented. The band spectrum of this compound is calculated in the local electron spin density approximation with correction for strong electron interactions in the 4f shell of the rare-earth metal (LSDA + U method) with allowance for the spin polarization. The optical constants of the compound are measured, and a number of spectral and electronic characteristics are determined by the ellipsometric method in a wide range of wave-lengths. Structural features of the optical conductivity spectrum in the interband absorption region are interpreted on the basis of the calculated electron state density.     

First principle study of the structural,electronic and magnetic properties of Fe,Co, Ni atomic nanochains encapsulated in single walled and double walled beryllium oxygen nanotubes

By using first-principles calculations within the density function theory, the structural, electronic and magnetic properties of transition metals TM (TM=Fe, Co and Ni) atomic chains wrapped in the single walled and double walled BeO nanotubes are investigated. It is found that all these TM chains @ BeONTs systems are ferromagnetic (FM) and a spin splitting between spin up and down is observed. The high magnetic moment and spin polarization of the TM @ BeONTs systems imply that it can be used as magnetic nanostructure and future applications in permanent magnetism, magnetic recording, and spintronics.     

Ordering of Fe and Zn Ions and the Magnetic Properties of FeZnMo3O8

JETP Letters - In the present paper, the electronic, magnetic, and structural properties of a novel system FeZnMo3O8 with a polar crystal structure are investigated using GGA + U (Generalized...     

Structural,electronic,and magnetic properties of vanadium atom-adsorbed MoSe_2 monolayer

Using the first-principles calculations, we study the structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of vanadium adsorbed MoSe_2 monolayer, and the magnetic couplings between the V adatoms at different adsorption concentrations. The calculations show that the V atom is chemically adsorbed on the MoSe_2 monolayer and prefers the location on the top of an Mo atom surrounded by three nearest-neighbor Se atoms. The interatomic electron transfer from the V to the nearestneighbor Se results in the polarized covalent bond with weak covalency, associated with the hybridizations of V with Se and Mo. The V adatom induces local impurity states in the middle of the band gap of pristine MoSe_2, and the peak of density of states right below the Fermi energy is associated with the V- dz~2 orbital. A single V adatom induces a magnetic moment of 5 μBthat mainly distributes on the V-3d and Mo-4d orbitals. The V adatom is in high-spin state, and its local magnetic moment is associated with the mid-gap impurity states that are mainly from the V-3d orbitals. In addition,the crystal field squashes a part of the V-4s electrons into the V-3d orbitals, which enhances the local magnetic moment.The magnetic ground states at different adsorption concentrations are calculated by generalized gradient approximations(GGA) and GGA+U with enhanced electron localization. In addition, the exchange integrals between the nearest-neighbor V adatoms at different adsorption concentrations are calculated by fitting the first-principle total energies of ferromagnetic(FM) and antiferromagnetic(AFM) states to the Heisenberg model. The calculations with GGA show that there is a transition from ferromagnetic to antiferromagnetic ground state with increasing the distance between the V adatoms. We propose an exchange mechanism based on the on-site exchange on Mo and the hybridization between Mo and V, to explain the strong ferromagnetic coupling at a short distance between the V adatoms. However, the ferromagnetic exchange mechanism is sensitive to both the increased inter-adatom distance at low concentration and the enhanced electron localization by GGA+U, which leads to antiferromagnetic ground state, where the antiferromagnetic superexchange is dominant.     

Structural, elastic, magnetic and electronic properties of 4d perovskite CaTcO3: a DFT+U investigation

The structural, elastic, magnetic and electronic properties of 4d high Neél temperature perovskite (Pv) CaTcO(3) have been studied using density functional theory plus the Hubbard U (DFT+U) method. The degree of correlations of CaTcO(3) is determined with a reasonable value of U. The compound is found to be an indirect band gap semiconductor with G-type antiferromagnetic ordering and large superexchange interactions. Large anisotropic compression behavior is found that is much alike the case of Pv CaIrO(3) reported by recent high pressure experiment. The b and c axes decrease linearly with pressure whereas the a axis nearly keeps constant and even slightly expands after ~23 GPa. Finally, we predict the single crystal elastic constants and investigate the polycrystalline elastic properties.