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Designing systems with large magnetic anisotropy energy (MAE) is desirable and critical for nanoscale magnetic devices. A recent breakthrough achieved the theoretical limit of the MAE for 3$d$ transition metal atoms by placing a single Co…
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Magnetic materials represent an essential ingredient for the contemporary industry. Apart from common material parameters such as magnetocrystalline anisotropy, coercivity, or saturation magnetization, magnetoelastic behavior is vital for…
The influence of the mechanical strain and chemical substitution on the magnetic anisotropy energy (MAE) of Cr$_2$O$_3$ is studied using first-principles calculations. Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction contributes substantially to MAE by…
Magnetism at the nanoscale has been a very active research area in the past decades, because of its novel fundamental physics and exciting potential applications. We have recently performed an {\it ab intio} study of the structural,…
Large magnetic anisotropy energy (MAE) is desirable and critical for nanoscale magnetic devices. Here, using ligand-field level diagrams and density functional calculations, we well explain the very recent discovery [I. G. Rau et al.,…
Nd-Fe-B magnets are the most widely used high performance magnets in the world today, and remain the subject of both experimental and computational research aimed at understanding and optimizing them. Atomistic spin dynamics (ASD) is one…
We present calculations of spin-dependent electron transport through single organic molecules bridging pairs of iron nanocontacts. We predict the magnetoresistance of these systems to switch from positive to negative with increasing applied…
A chain of dipole-coupled elongated magnetic islands whose long axes are oriented perpendicular to the chain is studied for its magnetization properties. With a magnetic field applied perpendicular to the chain, the competition between…
Search for ultrathin magnetic film with large perpendicular magnetocrystalline anisotropy (PMA) has been inspired for years by the continuous miniaturization of magnetic units in spintronics devices. The common magnetic materials used in…
The magnetocrystalline anisotropy energy $E_{anis}$ for free-standing chains (quantum wires) and rings (quantum corrals) of Fe-adatoms $N=$(2...48) is determined using an electronic tight-binding theory. Treating spin-orbit coupling…
Motivated in part by experiments performed by M.H. Pan et al. (nanoletters, v.5, p 83, 2005), we have undertaken a theoretical study of the the magnetic properties of two-monolayer thick Co nanoplatelets with an equilateral triangular…
The interplay of strong single-ion anisotropy and magnetic interactions often give rise to novel magnetic behavior and can provide additional routes for controlling magnetization dynamics. However, novel effects arising from interactions…
We theoretically investigate the magnetoelastic coupling (MEC) and its effect on magnon transport in two-dimensional antiferromagnets with a honeycomb lattice. MEC coeffcient along with magnetic exchange parameters and spring constants are…