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Exchange interactions and frustrated magnetism in single-side hydrogenated and fluorinated graphene

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2014-06-03 v1 Materials Science Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

Magnetism in single-side hydrogenated (C2_2H) and fluorinated (C2_2F) graphene is analyzed in terms of the Heisenberg model with parameters determined from first principles. We predict a frustrated ground state for both systems, which means the instability of collinear spin structures and sheds light on the absence of a conventional magnetic ordering in defective graphene demonstrated in recent experiments. Moreover, our findings suggest a highly correlated magnetic behavior at low temperatures offering the possibility of a spin-liquid state.

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@article{arxiv.1306.5190,
  title  = {Exchange interactions and frustrated magnetism in single-side hydrogenated and fluorinated graphene},
  author = {A. N. Rudenko and F. J. Keil and M. I. Katsnelson and A. I. Lichtenstein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.5190},
  year   = {2014}
}

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5 pages, 5 figures