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First-Principles Study on the Electronic Structures of α-SrMnO3

ZHANG Shi-Jing1,2, LI Guang-Hua2, HUA Jia2, SHI Zhan2, ZHANG Gang-Hua2, YUAN Hong-Ming2, YAO Bin1, FENG Shou-Hua2*   

    1. College of Physics,
    2. State Key Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
  • Received:2008-07-09 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2009-02-10 Published:2009-02-10
  • Contact: FENG Shou-Hua

Abstract: The electronic structures of hexagonal α-SrMnO3 were studied by first-principles calculations within plane wave pseudopotential method. The calculated results indicate that the α-SrMnO3 is antiferromagnetic(AFM) magnetic insulator at 0 K, and the band gap is about 1.6 eV. The most stable magnetic ground state of hexagonal layed SrMnO3 displays the spin configuration of AFM coupling both within the face-sharing Mn2O9 dimer entity and between the corner-sharing octahedron. There are very strong hybridizations between the Mn3d and O2p states around Fermi level. α-SrMnO3 belongs to covalent insulator, and these strong covalent interactions lead to the deviation from the ideal spin magnetic moment of the Mn4+. The spin exchange coupling constants are fit within the Noodleman's broken symmetry methods through the calculated total energy for the various spin ordered states of α-SrMnO3. The local microstructures(Mn—O—Mn) of α-SrMnO3 determine the special magnetic exchange interaction. There are AFM exchange interactions both within the Mn2O9 entities and between the Mn ions in the corner-sharing octahedron of α-SrMnO3, and the latter AFM exchange interaction is stronger than the former one.

Key words: α-SrMnO3, First-principles calculation, Covalent insulator

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