Artículo
Realistic indirect spin interactions between magnetic impurities on a metallic Pb(110) surface
Fecha de publicación:
12/2019
Editorial:
American Physical Society
Revista:
Physical Review B
ISSN:
2469-9950
e-ISSN:
2469-9969
Idioma:
Inglés
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Artículo publicado
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Resumen
Motivated by recent experiments, here we study the indirect interactions between magnetic impurities deposited on top of a clean Pb(110) surface, induced by the underlying conduction electrons. Our approach makes use of ab initio calculations to characterize the clean Pb(110) surface and avoids self-consistency, a feature that greatly reduces the computational cost. In combination with second-order perturbation theory in the microscopic s-d exchange parameter Jsd between a magnetic adatom and the conduction electrons, we are able to systematically derive the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida, the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya, and the anisotropic tensor interactions emerging at the Pb(110) surface between magnetic impurities. The only adjustable parameter is Jsd, which is fitted to reproduce the experiments. Our results show important anisotropy effects arising both from the rectangular geometry of the (110) unit cell and from the strong Rashba spin-orbit interaction due to the broken inversion symmetry at the Pb(110) surface. In addition to Pb(110), the characterization of the indirect spin interactions described here could be extended to other realistic metallic surfaces for weakly coupled impurities and would enable us to fabricate atomic-size nanostructures with engineered interactions and on-demand magnetic properties, anticipating useful applications in nanotechnology.
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Articulos(IFIR)
Articulos de INST.DE FISICA DE ROSARIO (I)
Articulos de INST.DE FISICA DE ROSARIO (I)
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Rébola, Alejandro Federico; Lobos, Alejandro Martin; Realistic indirect spin interactions between magnetic impurities on a metallic Pb(110) surface; American Physical Society; Physical Review B; 100; 23; 12-2019; 1-9
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