Orbital contribution to the magnetic properties of iron as a function of dimensionality

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2007-03-22

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0703576v1

Physical Review B 76 (2007) 024412

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.76.024412

The orbital contribution to the magnetic properties of Fe in systems of decreasing dimensionality (bulk, surfaces, wire and free clusters) is investigated using a tight-binding hamiltonian in an $s, p,$ and $d$ atomic orbital basis set including spin-orbit coupling and intra-atomic electronic interactions in the full Hartree-Fock (HF) scheme, i.e., involving all the matrix elements of the Coulomb interaction with their exact orbital dependence. Spin and orbital magnetic moments and the magnetocrystalline anisotropy energy (MAE) are calculated for several orientations of the magnetization. The results are systematically compared with those of simplified hamiltonians which give results close to those obtained from the local spin density approximation. The full HF decoupling leads to much larger orbital moments and MAE which can reach values as large as 1$\mu_B$ and several tens of meV, respectively, in the monatomic wire at the equilibrium distance. The reliability of the results obtained by adding the so-called Orbital Polarization Ansatz (OPA) to the simplified hamiltonians is also discussed. It is found that when the spin magnetization is saturated the OPA results for the orbital moment are in qualitative agreement with those of the full HF model. However there are large discrepancies for the MAE, especially in clusters. Thus the full HF scheme must be used to investigate the orbital magnetism and MAE of low dimensional systems.

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