著者
Suzuki Shugo Yasuda Sho Edakawa Kazuki Seki Saori
出版者
日本物理学会
雑誌
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan (ISSN:00319015)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.82, no.12, pp.124715, 2013-11
被引用文献数
7

We study the electric field (EF) effects on the magnetic anisotropy in the MgO/TM/Au (TM = Fe, Co) systems with (001) and (111) orientations using relativistic first-principles calculations based on the density functional theory. We find that the perpendicular magnetic anisotropy of the MgO/TM/Au(001) system is enhanced by the EF that decreases the number of electrons in the system. The magnetic anisotropy energy (MAE) and its EF dependence of the MgO/Fe/Au(001) system is found to be in a semi-quantitative agreement with the experimental results with successful reproduction of the sign of the measured EF dependence. Furthermore, the EF dependence of the MAE of the MgO/Co/Au(001) system is found to be very large due to the structural relaxation of the Co–O interatomic distance and the decrease in the number of electrons in the Co atom caused by the EF. This result is attributed to the general trend that the perpendicular magnetic anisotropy of the Co layer is affected significantly when in contact with an inert layer at an interlayer distance of about 2 Å. On the contrary, we find that the MgO/TM/Au(111) system shows almost no EF dependence of the MAE. This result is attributed to the existence of a strong TM–O covalent bond associated with the oxidation of the TM atom by the O atom.
著者
SUZUKI Shugo OHTA Hidehisa
出版者
The Physical Society of Japan
雑誌
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan (ISSN:00319015)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.79, no.07, pp.074703, 2010-06-25
被引用文献数
3 3

We study the orbital, spin, and total magnetic moments in uranium monochalcogenides, UX where X=S, Se, and Te, using the fully relativistic full-potential calculations based on the spin density functional theory. In particular, the orbital magnetic moments are calculated with the Dirac current. We employ two methods which adopt distinctly different basis sets; one is the fully relativistic full-potential linear-combination-of-atomic-orbitals (FFLCAO) method and the other is the fully relativistic full-potential mixed-basis (FFMB) method. Showing that the orbital magnetic moments calculated using the FFLCAO method and those calculated using the FFMB method agree very well with each other, we demonstrate that, in contrast to the conventional method, the method with the Dirac current enables us to calculate the orbital magnetic moments even if the basis set includes basis functions with no definite angular momenta, e.g., the plane waves in the FFMB method. Furthermore, it is found that the orbital magnetic moments obtained in this work are larger by nearly 0.4 µB than those obtained using the conventional method. This is crucial because the resultant differences in the total magnetic moments are about 30%. We compare the results of this work with those of previous theoretical and experimental studies.
著者
Suzuki Shugo Li Ming-Fang Ariizumi Toshihiro
出版者
The Physical Society of Japan
雑誌
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan (ISSN:00319015)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.77, no.7, pp.074703, 2008-07
被引用文献数
7 5

We study the structural, electronic, magnetic, optical, and magneto-optical properties of NpN in detail using the fully relativistic full-potential calculations based on the density functional theory within the local spin density approximation. We successfully reproduce the positive sign of the electric field gradient (EFG) at Np nuclei. The positive EFG is in striking contrast to the negative EFG in a Np3+ free ion, indicating the importance of the interplay between spin–orbit coupling and covalent bonding in NpN. Also, the calculated band structure shows large splittings induced by spin polarization and spin–orbit coupling, suggesting that both effects are indispensable for understanding the electronic properties of this material. This results in a large Kerr rotation angle of about 2°, which is comparable to those of uranium calcogenides.
著者
Li Ming-Fang Ariizumi Toshihiro Suzuki Shugo
出版者
The Physical Society of Japan
雑誌
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan (ISSN:00319015)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.76, no.5, pp.054702, 2007-04
被引用文献数
10

We study the magneto-optical Kerr effect using fully relativistic calculations. Spin–orbit coupling is dealt with exactly solving the Dirac equation directly and the matrix elements of the Dirac matrices α are used in a fully relativistic expression of the Kubo formula for the optical conductivity derived with a relativistic sum rule. We also perform approximate calculations of the optical conductivity to examine the accuracy of a partly relativistic expression in which the matrix elements of the momentum operator p are used instead. As an example, we carry out calculations for bcc Fe and fcc Ni using the fully relativistic full-potential linear-combination-of-atomic-orbitals method. It is found that the partly relativistic treatment is good for the diagonal optical conductivity while it is not very good for the off-diagonal optical conductivity, the Kerr rotation angle, and the Kerr ellipticity. The results of the present study are compared to those of experimental and other theoretical studies.
著者
Suzuki Shugo Hirosawa Jin Nakao Kenji
出版者
The Physical Society of Japan
雑誌
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan (ISSN:00319015)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.75, no.8, pp.084709, 2006-08

We study low-energy excitations in the Mott–Jahn–Teller insulator A4C60 theoretically, where A is alkali metal. A model which takes account of both the electron–electron and electron–phonon interactions is employed and the low-energy excitations are calculated by using the Tamm–Dancoff approximation. It is found that the lowest excitation corresponds to the creation of the spin-singlet Frenkel excitons at about 0.3 eV and the next lowest excitation corresponds to the creation of the spin-triplet Frenkel excitons at about 0.6 eV. It is also found that the excitations of a pair of a free electron and a free hole lie over 0.8 eV. A remarkable point is that the spin-singlet Frenkel excitons are lower in energy than the spin-triplet Frenkel excitons in A4C60 in contrast to usual insulators.