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Low dimensional carbon-based materials are interesting because they can show intrinsic $\pi$-magnetism associated to p-electrons residing in specific open-shell configurations. Consequently, during the last years there have been impressive…

In our work, we study the dynamics of a graphene Corbino disk supported by a gold mechanical resonator in the presence of a magnetic field. We demonstrate here that our graphene/gold mechanical structure exhibits a nontrivial resonance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-04 Juuso Manninen , Antti Laitinen , Francesco Massel , Pertti Hakonen

The electronic properties of graphene on top of ferroelectric HfO$_2$ substrates in orthorhombic phase with space group Pca2$_1$ are investigated using density functional theory calculations. The space group Pca2$_1$ was recently identified…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-26 George Alexandru Nemnes , Daniela Dragoman , Mircea Dragoman

Using hybrid exchange-correlation functional in ab initio density functional theory calculations, we study magnetic properties and strain effect on the electronic properties of $\alpha$-graphyne monolayer. We find that a spontaneous…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-02-08 Baojuan Dong , Huaihong Guo , Zhiyong Liu , Teng Yang , Peng Tao , Sufang Tang , Riichiro Saito , Zhidong Zhang

In this work, we have studied the chemical and magnetic interactions of Fe$_n$ ; n=1-6 clusters with vacancy defects (monovacancy to correlated vacancies with six missing C atoms) in a graphene sheet by ab-initio density functional…

We report an element-specific investigation of electronic and magnetic properties of the graphene/Ni(111) system. Using magnetic circular dichroism, the occurrence of an induced magnetic moment of the carbon atoms in the graphene layer…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Weser , Y. Rehder , Yu. S. Dedkov , K. Horn , M. Sicot , M. Fonin , A. Preobtajenski , E. N. Voloshina

We explore the impact of introducing IIIA-group element Ga in place of IIB-group element Zn in binary intermetallic GdZn on its magnetic and magnetocaloric properties, as well as explicate the modified electronic band structure of the…

We have studied the effect of dynamical correlations on the electronic structure of single Co adatoms on graphene monolayers with a recently developed novel method for nanoscopic materials that combines density functional calculations with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-31 D. Jacob , G. Kotliar

We report a first-principles study of the magnetic properties, site disorder and magneto-structural coupling in multiferroic gallium ferrite (GFO) using local spin density approximation (LSDA+U) of density functional theory. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-04-16 Amritendu Roy , Rajendra Prasad , Sushil Auluck , Ashish Garg

We theoretically investigate spin-resolved currents flowing in large-area graphene, with and without defects, doped with single atoms of noble metals (Cu, Ag and Au) and 3d-transition metals (Mn,Fe,Co and Ni). We show that the presence of a…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-12-12 Matheus P. Lima , Antônio J. R. da Silva , A. Fazzio

Predictions state that graphene can spontaneously develop magnetism from the Coulomb repulsion of its $\pi$-electrons, but its experimental verification has been a challenge. Here, we report on the observation and manipulation of individual…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-15 Jingcheng Li , Sofia Sanz , Martina Corso , Deung Jang Choi , Diego Peña , Thomas Frederiksen , Jose Ignacio Pascual

We address the electronic structure and magnetic properties of vacancies and voids both in graphene and graphene ribbons. Using a mean field Hubbard model, we study the appearance of magnetic textures associated to removing a single atom…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-27 J. J. Palacios , J. Fernandez-Rossier , L. Brey

First principles density functional theory (DFT) is used to investigate the electronic structure of \beta-MnO2. From collinear spin polarized calculations we find that DFT+U_Eff predicts a gapless ferromagnet in contrast with experiment…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-11-26 David A. Tompsett , Derek S. Middlemiss , M. Saiful Islam

It is generally believed that free-standing graphene does not demonstrate any ferroic properties. In the present work we revise this statement and show that single graphene sheet with a pair of magnetic adatoms can be driven into…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-15 Y. Marques , L. S. Ricco , F. A. Dessotti , R. S. Machado , I. A. Shelykh , M. de Souza , A. C. Seridonio

The gyromagnetic factor is an important physical quantity relating the magnetic-dipole moment of a particle to its spin. The electron spin g-factor in vacuo is one of the best model-based theoretical predictions ever made, showing agreement…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-07-05 N. Menezes , Van Sergio Alves , E. C. Marino , L. Nascimento , Leandro O. Nascimento , C. Morais Smith

We present a joint experiment-theory study on the role of fluorine adatoms in spin and momentum scattering of charge carriers in dilute fluorinated graphene and bilayer graphene. The experimental spin-flip and momentum scattering rates and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Susanne Wellnhofer , Adam Stabile , Denis Kochan , Martin Gmitra , Ya-Wen Chuang , Jun Zhu , Jaroslav Fabian

We previously show [JETP Letters, {\bf 114}, 763 (2021)] that a graphene sample placed on a ferromagnetic substrate demonstrates a cooperative magnetoelectronic instability. The instability induces a gap in the electronic spectrum and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-29 D. N. Dresviankin , A. V. Rozhkov , A. O. Sboychakov

The low temperature magnetoresistance of graphene functionalized by an array of magnetic Terbium Phthalocyanines molecules is found to exhibit a magnetic field-dependent 1/f noise, along with universal conductance fluctuations (UCFs)…

Electronic transport in a graphene-based ferromagnetic/normal/ferromagnetic junction is investigated by means of Landauer-B\"{u}ttiker formulism and the nonequilibrium Green's function technique. For the zigzag edge case, the results show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Jiang-chai Chen , Shu-guang Cheng , Shun-Qing Shen , Qing-feng Sun

The magnetic properties of graphene-related materials and in particular the spin-polarised edge states predicted for pristine graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with certain edge geometries have received much attention recently due to a range of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 S. R. Power , V. M. de Menezes , S. B. Fagan , M. S. Ferreira