Ritwik Mondal, Sebastian Großenbach, Levente Rózsa, U. Nowak
{"title":"Nutation in antiferromagnetic resonance","authors":"Ritwik Mondal, Sebastian Großenbach, Levente Rózsa, U. Nowak","doi":"10.1103/PHYSREVB.103.104404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVB.103.104404","url":null,"abstract":"The effect of inertial spin dynamics is compared between ferromagnetic, antiferromagnetic and ferrimagnetic systems. The linear response to an oscillating external magnetic field is calculated within the framework of the inertial Landau--Lifshitz--Gilbert equation using analytical theory and computer simulations. Precession and nutation resonance peaks are identified, and it is demonstrated that the precession frequencies are reduced by the spin inertia, while the lifetime of the excitations is enhanced. The interplay between precession and nutation is found to be the most prominent in antiferromagnets, where the timescale of the exchange-driven sublattice dynamics is comparable to inertial relaxation times. Consequently, antiferromagnetic resonance techniques should be better suited for the search for intrinsical inertial spin dynamics on ultrafast timescales than ferromagnetic resonance.","PeriodicalId":8467,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Materials Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81890488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Wuttig, C. Schoen, Mathias Schumacher, J. Robertson, Pavlo Golub, E. Bousquet, J. Raty
{"title":"Halide perovskites: third generation photovoltaic materials empowered by metavalent bonding","authors":"M. Wuttig, C. Schoen, Mathias Schumacher, J. Robertson, Pavlo Golub, E. Bousquet, J. Raty","doi":"10.21203/rs.3.rs-116034/v1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-116034/v1","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Third-generation photovoltaic (PV) materials combine many advantageous properties, including a high optical absorption together with a large charge carrier mobility, facilitated by small effective masses. Halide perovskites (ABX3, where X = I, Br or Cl) appear to be the most promising third-generation PV materials at present. Their opto-electronic properties are governed by the B-X bond. A quantum-chemical bond analysis reveals that this bond differs significantly from ionic, metallic or covalent bonds. Instead, it is better regarded as metavalent, since it shares approximately one p-electron between adjacent atoms. The resulting s–bond is half-filled, which causes pronounced optical absorption. Electron transfer and lattice distortions open a moderate band gap, resulting in charge carriers with small effective masses. Hence metavalent bonding explains the favorable PV properties of halide perovskites. This is summarized in a map for different bond types, which provides a blueprint to design third-generation PV materials.","PeriodicalId":8467,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Materials Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74185358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Honolka, S. Krotzky, M. Menzel, T. Herden, V. Sessi, H. Ebert, J. Minár, K. Bergmann, R. Wiesendanger, O. Šipr
{"title":"Spin-spiral state of a Mn monolayer on W(110) studied by soft x-ray absorption spectroscopy at variable temperatures","authors":"J. Honolka, S. Krotzky, M. Menzel, T. Herden, V. Sessi, H. Ebert, J. Minár, K. Bergmann, R. Wiesendanger, O. Šipr","doi":"10.1103/PhysRevB.103.174419","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.103.174419","url":null,"abstract":"The noncollinear magnetic state of epitaxial Mn monolayers on tungsten (110) crystal surfaces is investigated by means of soft x-ray absorption spectroscopy, to complement earlier spin-polarized STM experiments. X-ray absorption spectra (XAS), x-ray linear dichroism (XLD) and x-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) Mn L23-edge spectra were measured in the temperature range from 8 to 300 K and compared to results of fully-relativistic ab initio calculations. We show that antiferromagnetic (AFM) helical and cycloidal spirals give rise to significantly different Mn L23-edge XLD signals, enabling thus to distinguish between them. It follows from our results that the magnetic ground state of a Mn monolayer on W(110) is an AFM cycloidal spin spiral. Based on temperature-dependent XAS, XLD and field-induced XMCD spectra we deduce that magnetic properties of the Mn monolayer on W(110) vary with temperature, but this variation lacks a clear indication of a phase transition in the investigated temperature range up to 300 K - even though a crossover exists around 170 K in the temperature dependence of XAS branching ratios and in XLD profiles.","PeriodicalId":8467,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Materials Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73054167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Nakano, Tommaso Morresi, M. Casula, R. Maezono, S. Sorella
{"title":"Atomic forces by quantum Monte Carlo: Application to phonon dispersion calculations","authors":"K. Nakano, Tommaso Morresi, M. Casula, R. Maezono, S. Sorella","doi":"10.1103/PHYSREVB.103.L121110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVB.103.L121110","url":null,"abstract":"We report the first successful application of the {it ab initio} quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) framework to a phonon dispersion calculation. A full phonon dispersion of diamond is successfully calculated at the variational Monte Carlo (VMC) level, based on the frozen-phonon technique. The VMC-phonon dispersion is in good agreement with the experimental results, giving renormalized harmonic optical frequencies very close to the experimental values, by significantly improving upon density functional theory (DFT) in the generalized gradient approximation. Key to success for the QMC approach is the statistical error reduction in atomic force evaluation. We show that this can be achieved by using well conditioned atomic basis sets, by explicitly removing the basis-set redundancy, which reduces the statistical error of forces by up to two orders of magnitude. This leads to affordable and accurate QMC-phonons calculations, up to $10^{4}$ times more efficient than previous attempts, and paves the way to new applications, particularly in correlated materials, where phonons have been poorly reproduced so far.","PeriodicalId":8467,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Materials Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89296300","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Nakayama, Bin Xu, S. Iwamoto, K. Yamamoto, R. Iguchi, A. Miura, T. Hirai, Y. Miura, Y. Sakuraba, J. Shiomi, K. Uchida
{"title":"Above-room-temperature giant thermal conductivity switching in spintronic multilayers","authors":"H. Nakayama, Bin Xu, S. Iwamoto, K. Yamamoto, R. Iguchi, A. Miura, T. Hirai, Y. Miura, Y. Sakuraba, J. Shiomi, K. Uchida","doi":"10.1063/5.0032531","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0032531","url":null,"abstract":"Thermal switching provides an effective way for active heat flow control, which has recently attracted increasing attention in terms of nanoscale thermal management technologies. In magnetic and spintronic materials, the thermal conductivity depends on the magnetization configuration: this is the magneto-thermal resistance effect. Here we show that an epitaxial Cu/Co$_{50}$Fe$_{50}$ multilayer film exhibits giant magnetic-field-induced modulation of the cross-plane thermal conductivity. The magneto-thermal resistance ratio for the Cu/Co$_{50}$Fe$_{50}$ multilayer reaches 150% at room temperature, which is much larger than the previous record high. Although the ratio decreases with increasing the temperature, the giant magneto-thermal resistance effect of ~100% still appears up to 400 K. The magnetic field dependence of the thermal conductivity of the Cu/Co$_{50}$Fe$_{50}$ multilayer was observed to be about twice greater than that of the cross-plane electrical conductivity. The observation of the giant magneto-thermal resistance effect clarifies a potential of spintronic multilayers as thermal switching devices.","PeriodicalId":8467,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Materials Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78374434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I. Breev, K. V. Likhachev, V. Yakovleva, René Hübner, G. Astakhov, P. Baranov, E. N. Mokhov, A. Anisimov
{"title":"Stress distribution at the AlN/SiC heterointerface probed by Raman spectroscopy","authors":"I. Breev, K. V. Likhachev, V. Yakovleva, René Hübner, G. Astakhov, P. Baranov, E. N. Mokhov, A. Anisimov","doi":"10.1063/5.0029682","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0029682","url":null,"abstract":"We grow AlN/4H-SiC and AlN/6H-SiC heterostructures by physical vapor deposition and characterize the heterointerface with nanoscale resolution. Furthermore, we investigate the spatial stress and strain distribution in these heterostructures using confocal Raman spectroscopy. We measure the spectral shifts of various vibrational Raman modes across the heterointerface and along the entire depth of the 4H- and 6H-SiC layers. Using the earlier experimental prediction for the phonon-deformation potential constants, we determine the stress tensor components in SiC as a function of the distance from the AlN/SiC heterointerface. In spite that the lattice parameter of SiC is smaller than that of AlN, the SiC layers are compressively strained at the heterointerface. This counterintuitive behavior is explained by different coefficients of thermal expansion of SiC and AlN when the heterostructures are cooled from growth to room temperature. The compressive stress values are maximum at the heterointerface, approaching one GPa, and relaxes to the equilibrium value on the scale of several tens of microns from the heterointerface.","PeriodicalId":8467,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Materials Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74684507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Luise Rost, J. Lehr, Milan Maradiya, Lukas Hellweg, Florian Fillsack, W. Stolz, W. Heimbrodt
{"title":"The influence of growth interruption on the luminescence properties of Ga(As,Sb)-based type II heterostructures","authors":"Luise Rost, J. Lehr, Milan Maradiya, Lukas Hellweg, Florian Fillsack, W. Stolz, W. Heimbrodt","doi":"10.1016/j.jlumin.2020.117817","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlumin.2020.117817","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8467,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Materials Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79064624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Suetsugu, Kentaro Kitagawa, T. Kariyado, A. Rost, J. Nuss, Claus Mühle, Masao Ogata, H. Takagi
{"title":"Giant orbital diamagnetism of three-dimensional Dirac electrons in \u0000Sr3PbO\u0000 antiperovskite","authors":"S. Suetsugu, Kentaro Kitagawa, T. Kariyado, A. Rost, J. Nuss, Claus Mühle, Masao Ogata, H. Takagi","doi":"10.1103/PHYSREVB.103.115117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVB.103.115117","url":null,"abstract":"In Dirac semimetals, inter-band mixing has been known theoretically to give rise to a giant orbital diamagnetism when the Fermi level is close to the Dirac point. In Bi$ _{1-x}$Sb$ _x$ and other Dirac semimetals, an enhanced diamagnetism in the magnetic susceptibility $chi$ has been observed and interpreted as a manifestation of such giant orbital diamagnetism. Experimentally proving their orbital origin, however, has remained challenging. Cubic antiperovskite Sr$ _3$PbO is a three-dimensional Dirac electron system and shows the giant diamagnetism in $chi$ as in the other Dirac semimetals. $ ^{207}$Pb NMR measurements are conducted in this study to explore the microscopic origin of diamagnetism. From the analysis of the Knight shift $K$ as a function of $chi$ and the relaxation rate $T_1^{-1}$ for samples with different hole densities, the spin and the orbital components in $K$ are successfully separated. The results establish that the enhanced diamagnetism in Sr$ _3$PbO originates from the orbital contribution of Dirac electrons, which is fully consistent with the theory of giant orbital diamagnetism.","PeriodicalId":8467,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Materials Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90391902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}