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Efficient magnetic superstructure optimization with $\Theta\Phi$

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2020-11-13 v1 Materials Science Computational Physics

Abstract

Simulating the incommensurate spin density waves (ISDW) states is not a simple task within the standard \emph{ab-initio} methods. Moreover, in the context of new material discovery, there is a need for fast and reliable tool capable to scan and optimize the total energy as a function of the pitch vector, thus allowing to automatize the search for new materials. In this paper we show how the ISDW can be efficiently obtained within the recently released ΘΦ\Theta\Phi program. We illustrate this on an example of the single orbital Hubbard model and of γ\gamma-Fe, where the ISDW emerge within the mean-field approximation and by using the twisted boundary conditions. We show the excellent agreement of the ΘΦ\Theta\Phi with the previously published ones and discuss possible extensions. Finally, we generalize the previously given framework for spin quantization axis rotation to the most general case of spin-dependent hopping matrix elements.

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@article{arxiv.2011.06053,
  title  = {Efficient magnetic superstructure optimization with $\Theta\Phi$},
  author = {Evgeny A. Plekhanov and Andrei L. Tchougréeff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.06053},
  year   = {2020}
}

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8 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Computational Materials Science

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