Magnetism and exchange-bias effect at the MnN/Fe interface

被引:7
作者
Simon, E. [1 ]
Yanes, R. [2 ]
Khmelevskyi, S. [3 ]
Palotas, K. [1 ,4 ,5 ]
Szunyogh, L. [1 ,6 ]
Nowak, U. [7 ]
机构
[1] Budapest Univ Technol & Econ, Dept Theoret Phys, Budafoki Ut 8, H-1111 Budapest, Hungary
[2] Univ Salamanca, Dept Appl Phys, E-37008 Salamanca, Spain
[3] Vienna Univ Technol, Inst Appl Phys, Ctr Computat Mat Sci, Wiedner Hauptstr 8, A-1060 Vienna, Austria
[4] Slovak Acad Sci, Inst Phys, Dept Complex Phys Syst, SK-84511 Bratislava, Slovakia
[5] Univ Szeged, MTA SZTE React Kinet & Surface Chem Res Grp, H-6720 Szeged, Hungary
[6] Budapest Univ Technol & Econ, MTA BME Condensed Matter Res Grp, Budafoki Ut 8, H-1111 Budapest, Hungary
[7] Univ Konstanz, Dept Phys, D-78464 Constance, Germany
关键词
TOTAL-ENERGY CALCULATIONS; WAVE BASIS-SET; BLOCKING TEMPERATURE; ANTIFERROMAGNETS; ANISOTROPY; METALS; MODEL; SPINS;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevB.98.094415
中图分类号
T [工业技术];
学科分类号
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摘要
Based on ab initio calculations and spin dynamics simulations, we perform a detailed study on the magnetic properties of bulk MnN and the MnN/Fe interface. We determine the spin model parameters for the theta-phase of bulk MnN, and we find that the competition between the nearest and the next-nearest-neighbor interactions leads to antiferromagnetic ordering of the Mn spins, in agreement with previous theoretical and experimental results. At the MnN/Fe interface, a sizable Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction appears leading to a stable exchange-bias effect. We study the dependences of the exchange-bias effect on the thicknesses of the ferromagnetic and the antiferromagnetic layers, and we compare them to experimentally obtained results [Meinert et al., Phys. Rev. B 92,144408 (2015)].
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