Electron Correlations and the Minority-Spin Band Gap in Half-Metallic Heusler Alloys

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2006-01-17

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0601376v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

5 pages, 3 figure

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.137203

Electron-electron correlations affect the band gap of half-metallic ferromagnets by introducing non-quasiparticle states just above the Fermi level. In contrast to the spin-orbit coupling, a large asymmetric non-quasiparticle spectral weight is present in the minority-spin channel, leading to a peculiar finite-temperature spin depolarization effects. Using recently developed first-principle dynamical mean field theory, we investigate these effects for the half-metallic ferrimagnetic Heusler compound FeMnSb. We discuss depolarization effects in terms of strength of local Coulomb interaction $U$ and temperature in FeMnSb. We propose Ni$_{1-x}$Fe$_{x}$MnSb alloys as a perspective materials to be used in spin-valve structures and for experimental search of non-quasiparticle states in half-metallic materials.

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