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Half-metallic ferromagnets: From band structure to many-body effects
- Source :
- Rev. Mod. Phys. 80, 315 (2008)
- Publication Year :
- 2007
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Abstract
- A review of new developments in theoretical and experimental electronic structure investigations of half-metallic ferromagnets (HMF) is presented. Being semiconductors for one spin projection and metals for another ones, these substances are promising magnetic materials for applications in spintronics (i.e., spin-dependent electronics). Classification of HMF by the peculiarities of their electronic structure and chemical bonding is discussed. Effects of electron-magnon interaction in HMF and their manifestations in magnetic, spectral, thermodynamic, and transport properties are considered. Especial attention is paid to appearance of non-quasiparticle states in the energy gap, which provide an instructive example of essentially many-body features in the electronic structure. State-of-art electronic calculations for correlated $d$-systems is discussed, and results for specific HMF (Heusler alloys, zinc-blende structure compounds, CrO$_{2},$ Fe$_{3}$O$_{4}$) are reviewed.<br />Comment: to be published in Reviews of Modern Physics, vol 80, issue 1
Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Journal :
- Rev. Mod. Phys. 80, 315 (2008)
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.0711.0872
- Document Type :
- Working Paper
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.80.315