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http://dx.doi.org/10.4283/JKMS.2009.19.3.081

The LDA+U Effect on the Electronic Structure and Magnetism of Bulk, Monolayer, and Linear Chain of Iron  

Landge, Kalpana K. (Department of Physics, Inha University)
Bialek, Beata (Department of Physics, Inha University)
Lee, Jae-Il (Department of Physics, Inha University)
Abstract
We examine the effect of U term (U = 3 eV) describing the Coulomb interactions between electrons on the results of electronic band structure calculations carried out for bcc Fe bulk, monolayer, and chain. We investigated the properties of the three Fe structures by using the all-electron total-energy full-potential linearized augmented plane wave method. The U term was included in the exchange - correlation functionals constructed on the basis of local density approximation (LDA) and general gradient approximation (GGA). We found that in the case of bcc Fe bulk structure inclusion of the U term leads to the overestimated values of magnetic moment on Fe atom. The values of magnetic moment calculated for Fe in monolayer and chain are in accordance with calculations in which the U term was not included. In general, for each system the calculated values of magnetic moment on Fe sites were larger when the U term was incorporated in the energy functional. In Fe bulk, the value of magnetic moment $2.54{\mu}_B$ for LDA+U larger than $2.25{\mu}_B$ for LDA.
Keywords
Fe; defect; electronic structure; magnetism;
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