Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2007-12-08
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
Phys. Rev. B v 76 (2007) accepted for publication
Scientific paper
We present an ab initio DFT study of the magnetic moments that arise in graphite by creating single carbon vacancies in a 3-D graphite network, using a full potential, all electron, spin polarized electronic structure calculations. In previous reports the appearance of magnetic moments was explained in a 2-D graphene sheet just through the existence of the vacancies itself [1-5]. The dependence of the arising magnetic moment on the nature and geometry of the vacancies for different supercells is reported. We found that the highest value of magnetic moment is obtained for a 3x3x1 supercell and that the highly diluted 5x5x1 supercell shows no magnetic ordering. The results obtained in this manuscript are indicative of the importance of interlayer interactions present in a 3-D stacking. We conclude that this should not be underestimated when vacancies-based studies on magnetism in graphitic systems are carried out.
Araujo-Moreira Fernando M.
Denis Pablo A.
Faccio Ricardo
Mombru Alvaro W.
Oeiras Rodrigo Yoshikawa
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