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Volume 117, Number 3, February 2017
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Article Number | 37005 | |
Number of page(s) | 5 | |
Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/117/37005 | |
Published online | 28 March 2017 |
Ferromagnetism in the unusual low-valence layered material LaSrNiRuO4
1 Laboratory for Computational Physical Sciences (MOE), State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics, and Department of Physics, Fudan University - Shanghai 200433, China
2 Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures - Nanjing 210093, China
(a) wuh@fudan.edu.cn
Received: 1 March 2017
Accepted: 13 March 2017
Using density functional calculations and spin-lattice Monte Carlo simulation, we study a quite strong ferromagnetism (FM) in the layered material LaSrNiRuO4 with an unusual low-valence Ni+/Ru2+ state. Our results show that the Ru2+ ion remains in the S = 1 state and does not undergo a spin state transition around room temperature. A strong intralayer FM coupling and a relatively weak interlayer FM one are demonstrated by density functional calculations, and using these exchange parameters, our Monte Carlo simulations well reproduce the measured Curie temperature of about 200 K. All these results are in line with analyses of the crystal field level diagrams and the spin-orbital states of the square planar Ni+ (S = 1/2) and Ru2+ (S = 1) ions.
PACS: 75.25.Dk – Orbital, charge, and other orders, including coupling of these orders / 71.70.-d – Level splitting and interactions / 71.20.-b – Electron density of states and band structure of crystalline solids
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