Spin states of iron impurities in magnesium oxide under pressure: A possible intermediate state
arXiv:1304.2227 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.87.165113
Abstract
Ferropericlase (Mg,Fe)O is a major lower mantle mineral, and studying its properties is a fundamental step toward understanding the Earth's interior. Here, we performed a first-principles investigation on the properties of iron as an isolated impurity in magnesium oxide, which is the condition of ferropericlase under which iron-iron interactions could be neglected. The calculations were carried using the all-electron full-potential linearized augmented plane wave method within the density functional theory in the generalized gradient approximation plus the on-site Hubbard correction. We present the electronic and magnetic properties, electric and magnetic hyperfine splitting of this impurity in high and low spin states for several charge states at zero pressure, which were then extended to high pressures. For the impurity in the neutral charge state, our results indicated that there is a metastable intermediate spin state (S=1), in addition to the high (S=2) and low (S=0) spin states. Those results were discussed in the context of an intermediate spin state, experimentally identified in ferrosilicate perovskite.
arXiv comment23 pages, 8 figures
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