Magnetic interactions and spin excitations in van der Waals ferromagnet VI
arXiv:2108.05528 · doi:10.1088/1361-6463/ac1bd3
Abstract
Using a combination of density functional theory (DFT) and spin-wave theory methods, we investigate the magnetic interactions and spin excitations in semiconducting VI. Exchange parameters of monolayer, bilayer, and bulk forms are evaluated by mapping the magnetic energies of various spin configurations, calculated using DFT+, onto the Heisenberg model. The intralayer couplings remain largely unchanged in three forms of VI, while the interlayer couplings show stronger dependence on the dimensionality of the materials. We calculate the spin-wave spectra within a linear spin-wave theory and discuss how various exchange parameters affect the magnon bands. The magnon-magnon interaction is further incorporated, and the Curie temperature is estimated using a self-consistently renormalized spin-wave theory. To understand the roles of constituent atoms on magnetocrystalline anisotropy energy (MAE), we resolve MAE into sublattices and find that a strong negative V-I inter-sublattice contribution is responsible for the relatively small easy-axis MAE in VI.
10 pages, 6 figures, Accepted as Special Issue Article in Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
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