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Cu(001)表面Fe、Co和Ni纳米线的{\it ab initio}研究

An {\it ab initio} study of the magnetic and electronic properties of Fe, Co, and Ni nanowires on Cu(001) surface

J. C. Tung, G. Y. Guo

摘要:

纳米尺度下的磁性由于其新颖的基础物理和令人兴奋的潜在应用,在过去的几十年里一直是一个非常活跃的研究领域。我们最近进行了一个{\it ab intio}研究所有3个$d$过渡金属(TM)独立原子链的结构,电子和磁性,发现Fe和Ni纳米线具有巨大的磁各向异性能(MAE),这表明这些纳米线将在高密度磁数据存储的应用。本文在广义梯度近似下,对Cu(001)表面Fe,Co和Ni线性原子链进行了密度泛函计算,研究了衬底对纳米线磁性的影响.我们发现Cu(001)表面上的Fe、Co和Ni线性链仍然具有稳定或亚稳的铁磁态。当考虑自旋-轨道耦合(SOC)时,由于3个$d$ TM链中SOC的弱性,自旋磁矩几乎保持不变,同时出现显著的轨道磁矩,并且也是方向依赖的。最后,我们发现Fe和Co的MAE仍然很大,即不太受Cu衬底的存在的影响。

英文摘要:

Magnetism at the nanoscale has been a very active research area in the past decades, because of its novel fundamental physics and exciting potential applications. We have recently performed an {\it ab intio} study of the structural, electronic and magnetic properties of all 3$d$ transition metal (TM) freestanding atomic chains and found that Fe and Ni nanowires have a giant magnetic anisotropy energy (MAE), indicating that these nanowires would have applications in high density magnetic data storages. In this paper, we perform density functional calculations for the Fe, Co and Ni linear atomic chains on Cu(001) surface within the generalized gradient approximation, in order to investigate how the substrates would affect the magnetic properties of the nanowires. We find that Fe, Co and Ni linear chains on Cu(001) surface still have a stable or metastable ferromagnetic state. When spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is included, the spin magnetic moments remain almost unchanged, due to the weakness of SOC in 3$d$ TM chains, whilst significant orbital magnetic moments appear and also are direction-dependent. Finally, we find that the MAE for Fe, and Co remains large, i.e., being not much affected by the presence of Cu substrate.

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