Nearest neighbor exchange in Co- and Mn-doped ZnO

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2005-11-02

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0511050v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

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We calculate the magnetic interactions between two nearest neighbor substitutional magnetic ions (Co or Mn) in ZnO by means of density functional theory and compare it with the available experimental data. Using the local spin density approximation we find a coexistence of ferro- and antiferromagnetic couplings for ZnO:Co, in contrast to experiment. For ZnO:Mn both couplings are antiferromagnetic but deviate quantitatively from measurement. That points to the necessity to account better for the strong electron correlation at the transition ion site which we have done by applying the LSDA+U method. We show that we have to distinguish two different nearest neighbor exchange integrals for the two systems in question which are all antiferromagnetic with values between -1.0 and -2.0 meV in reasonable agreement with experiment.

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