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MnAs/GaAs(100)薄膜的磁晶各向异性和单轴性

Magnetocrystalline anisotropy and uniaxiality of MnAs/GaAs(100) films

J. Magnus Wikberg, Ronny Knut, Sumanta Bhandary, Igor di Marco, Mikael Ottosson, Janusz Sadowski, Biplab Sanyal, Pål Palmgren, Cheuk W. Tai, Olle Eriksson, Olof… 展开作者

J. Magnus Wikberg, Ronny Knut, Sumanta Bhandary, Igor di Marco, Mikael Ottosson, Janusz Sadowski, Biplab Sanyal, Pål Palmgren, Cheuk W. Tai, Olle Eriksson, Olof Karis, Peter Svedlindh

摘要:

本文研究了GaAs(100)衬底上外延生长的MnAs薄膜的磁性。我们解决的磁矩,铁磁转变温度($T_c$)和磁晶各向异性常数对外延条件的依赖性。从彻底的结构和磁性的调查,我们的研究结果表明,在MnAs薄膜的应变和磁性能之间的关系比一个简单的拉伸/压缩的晶胞轴更复杂。虽然各向异性常数略有增加,但饱和时磁矩的增强是显著的。X-射线磁性圆二色性结果表明自旋和轨道矩的行为与$T_c$的结构转变一致。特别是,我们发现,轨道自旋矩的比例显示出显着增加的铁磁$α$ -和顺磁$β$ -相的共存区域,结果是很好地符合所观察到的增加的$c/a$ -比在相同的温度区域。的\textit{ab initio}密度泛函计算表明,磁性能是更敏感的面内轴的变化相比,面外轴的变化,这是解释的能带结构的分析。用\textit{ab initio}动力学平均场论计算了MnAs中的电子关联效应。

英文摘要:

We present an investigation of the magnetic behavior of epitaxial MnAs films grown on GaAs(100). We address the dependence of the magnetic moment, ferromagnetic transition temperature ($T_c$) and magnetocrystalline anisotropy constants on epitaxial conditions. From thorough structural and magnetic investigations, our findings indicate a more complex relationship between strain and magnetic properties in MnAs films than a simple stretch/compression of the unit cell axes. While a small increase is seen in the anisotropy constants the enhancement of the magnetic moment at saturation is significant. X-ray magnetic circular dichroism results show a behavior of the spin- and orbital-moment which is consistent with a structural transition at $T_c$. In particular, we find that the ratio of the orbital to spin moment shows a marked increase in the coexistence region of the ferromagnetic $α$- and paramagnetic $β$-phases, a result that is well in accord with the observed increase of the $c/a$-ratio in the same temperature region. The \textit{ab initio} density functional calculations reveal that the magnetic properties are more sensitive towards change in in-plane axis as compared to a change of the out-of-plane axis, which is explained by the analysis of band structures. The effects of electron correlation in MnAs using \textit{ab initio} dynamical mean field theory are also presented.

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