Nanoskyrmion engineering with \(sp\)-electron materials: Sn monolayer on SiC(0001) surface

Materials with \(sp\)-magnetism demonstrate strongly nonlocal Coulomb interactions, which opens a way to probe correlations in the regimes not achievable in transition metal compounds. By the example of Sn monolayer on SiC(0001) surface, we show that such systems exhibit unusual but intriguing magne...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2018-04
Main Authors: Badrtdinov, Danis I, Nikolaev, Sergey A, Rudenko, Alexander N, Katsnelson, Mikhail I, Mazurenko, Vladimir V
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adatoms
Antiferromagnetism
Exchanging
Ferromagnetism
Magnetic properties
Magnetism
Metal compounds
Monolayers
Spin-orbit interactions
Transition metal compounds
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Summary:Materials with \(sp\)-magnetism demonstrate strongly nonlocal Coulomb interactions, which opens a way to probe correlations in the regimes not achievable in transition metal compounds. By the example of Sn monolayer on SiC(0001) surface, we show that such systems exhibit unusual but intriguing magnetic properties at the nanoscale. Physically, this is attributed to the presence of a significant ferromagnetic coupling, the so-called direct exchange, which fully compensates ubiquitous antiferromagnetic interactions of the superexchange origin. Having a nonlocal nature, the direct exchange was previously ignored because it cannot be captured within the conventional density functional methods and significantly challenges ground state models earlier proposed for Sn/SiC(0001). Furthermore, heavy adatoms induce strong spin-orbit coupling, which leads to a highly anisotropic form of the spin Hamiltonian, in which the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction is dominant. The latter is suggested to be responsible for the formation of a nanoskyrmion state at realistic magnetic fields and temperatures.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1804.00440