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Fully unconstrained non-collinear magnetism in triangular Cr and Mn monolayers and overlayers on Cu(111) substrates

Hobbs, David LU orcid and Hafner, Jürgen (2000) In Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 12. p.7025-7025
Abstract
A recently developed fully unconstrained approach to non-collinear magnetism has been applied to the investigation of the magnetic ground state of triangular free-standing Cr and Mn monolayers and overlayers on Cu(111) substrates. Such systems represent a physical realization of a frustrated two-dimensional antiferromagnet. We find that the ground state of the Cr monolayers is non-collinear; it shows (3)1/2×(3)1/2 periodicity with ±120° angles between the directions of the magnetic moments on neighbouring sites. Mn monolayers on the other hand have a collinear ground state with antiferromagnetically coupled rows and c(2×2) periodicity. The fully unconstrained description allows for a detailed investigation of the spin densities in the... (More)
A recently developed fully unconstrained approach to non-collinear magnetism has been applied to the investigation of the magnetic ground state of triangular free-standing Cr and Mn monolayers and overlayers on Cu(111) substrates. Such systems represent a physical realization of a frustrated two-dimensional antiferromagnet. We find that the ground state of the Cr monolayers is non-collinear; it shows (3)1/2×(3)1/2 periodicity with ±120° angles between the directions of the magnetic moments on neighbouring sites. Mn monolayers on the other hand have a collinear ground state with antiferromagnetically coupled rows and c(2×2) periodicity. The fully unconstrained description allows for a detailed investigation of the spin densities in the interstitial regions. (Less)
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  author       = {{Hobbs, David and Hafner, Jürgen}},
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  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{7025--7025}},
  publisher    = {{IOP Publishing}},
  series       = {{Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter}},
  title        = {{Fully unconstrained non-collinear magnetism in triangular Cr and Mn monolayers and overlayers on Cu(111) substrates}},
  volume       = {{12}},
  year         = {{2000}},
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