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How magnetism emerges in low-dimensional materials such as transition metal dichalcogenides at the monolayer limit is still an open question. Herein, we present a comprehensive study of the magnetic properties of single crystal and…
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Fe-doped III-V ferromagnetic semiconductor (FMS) (In,Fe)Sb is a promising material for spintronic device applications because of the n-type carrier conduction and the ferromagnetism with high Curie temperature (TC > 300 K). To clarify the…
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A double-exchange mechanism for the emergence of ferromagnetism in cubic uranium compounds is proposed on the basis of a $j$-$j$ coupling scheme. The idea is {\it orbital-dependent duality} of $5f$ electrons concerning itinerant…
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