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Ferromagnetic kinetic exchange interaction in magnetic insulators |
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| Author: | Huang, Zhishuo1; Liu, Dan2,1; Mansikkamäki, Akseli3,4; |
| Organizations: |
1Theory of Nanomaterials Group, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium 2Institute of Flexible Electronics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, 127 West Youyi Road, Xi'an, 710072 Shaanxi, China 3NMR Research Unit, University of Oulu, P.O. Box 3000, FI-90014 Oulu, Finland
4Department of Chemistry, Nanoscience Centre, University of Jyväskylä, FI-40014 University of Jyväskylä, Finland
5Maastricht Science Programme, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Maastricht University, Paul-Henri Spaaklaan 1, 6229 EN Maastricht, The Netherlands 6Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, Block S8 Level 3, 3 Science Drive 3, 117543 Singapore |
| Format: | article |
| Version: | published version |
| Access: | open |
| Online Access: | PDF Full Text (PDF, 1.5 MB) |
| Persistent link: | http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2020092976165 |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
American Physical Society,
2020
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| Publish Date: | 2020-09-29 |
| Description: |
AbstractThe superexchange theory predicts dominant antiferromagnetic kinetic interaction when the orbitals accommodating magnetic electrons are covalently bonded through diamagnetic bridging atoms or groups. Here we show that explicit consideration of magnetic and (leading) bridging orbitals, together with the electron transfer between the former, reveals a strong ferromagnetic kinetic exchange contribution. First-principles calculations show that it is comparable in strength with antiferromagnetic superexchange in a number of magnetic materials with diamagnetic metal bridges. In particular, it is responsible for a very large ferromagnetic coupling (−10 meV) between the iron ions in a Fe³⁺−Co³⁺−Fe³⁺ complex. Furthermore, we find that the ferromagnetic exchange interaction turns into antiferromagnetic by substituting the diamagnetic bridge with magnetic one. The phenomenology is observed in two series of materials, supporting the significance of the ferromagnetic kinetic exchange mechanism. see all
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| Series: |
Physical review research |
| ISSN: | 2643-1564 |
| ISSN-E: | 2643-1564 |
| ISSN-L: | 2643-1564 |
| Volume: | 2 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Article number: | 033430 |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.033430 |
| OADOI: | https://oadoi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.033430 |
| Type of Publication: |
A1 Journal article – refereed |
| Field of Science: |
114 Physical sciences 116 Chemical sciences |
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| Funding: |
Z.H. and D.L. were supported by the China Scholarship Council. A.M. acknowledges funding provided by the Magnus Ehrnrooth Foundation. V.V. received support as a postdoctoral fellow of the Research Foundation, Flanders (FWO). N.I. was partly supported the GOA program of KU Leuven and Scientific Research Grant No. R-143-000-A80-114 of the National University of Singapore. The computational resources were provided by the VSC (Flemish Supercomputer Center). |
| Copyright information: |
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