First-Principles Calculation of Spin and Orbital Contributions to Magnetically Ordered Moments in Sr${}_2$IrO${}_4$

Abstract

We show how an accurate first-principles treatment of the canted-antiferromagnetic ground state of Sr${}_2$IrO${}_4$, a prototypical $5d$ correlated spin-orbit coupled material, can be obtained without invoking any free parameters such as the Hubbard U or tuning the spin-orbit coupling strength. Our theoretically predicted iridium magnetic moment of 0.250 ${\mu }_B$, canted by 12.6${}^{\circ }$ off the a-axis, is in accord with experimental results. By resolving the magnetic moments into their spin and orbital components, we show that our theoretically obtained variation of the magnetic scattering amplitude $<M_m>$ as a function of the polarization angle is consistent with recent non-resonant magnetic x-ray scattering measurements. The computed value of the band gap (55 meV) is also in line with the corresponding experimental values. A comparison of the band structure to that of the cuprates suggests the presence of incommensurate charge-density wave phases in Sr${}_2$IrO${}_4$.

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