First-principles theory of the orbital magnetization

Details First-principles theory of the orbital magnetization First-principles theory of the orbital magnetization

2009-04-13

arxiv.org/abs/0904.1988v3

Phys. Rev. B 81, 060409(R) (2010)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

6 pages, 6 tables; two new tables added in the auxiliary material

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.81.060409

We compute the orbital magnetization in real materials by evaluating a recently discovered formula for periodic systems, within density functional theory. We obtain improved values of the orbital magnetization in the ferromagnetic metals Fe, Co, and Ni, by taking into account the contribution of the interstitial regions neglected so far in literature. We also use the orbital magnetization to compute the EPR $g$-tensor in molecules and solids. The present approach reproduces the $g$-tensor obtained by linear response (LR), when the spin-orbit can be treated as a perturbation. However, it can also be applied to radicals and defects with an orbital-degenerate ground-state or containing heavy atoms, that can not be properly described by LR.

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