Configurações magnéticas colineares e não-colineares em currais de Fe, Cr e Mn sobre a Pt (111)

Abstract

In this study, we investigated the magnetic properties of Fe, Cr and Mn corrals adsorbed on a Pt (111) surface using the first principle RS-LMTO-ASA (Real Space Linear Muffin Tin Orbital – Atomic Sphere Approximation) method, which is based on the Density Functional Theory (DFT), which allows for non-collinear magnetic ordering. We obtained that the Fe atoms posses a large magnetic moment, of the order of 3.5µB / atom, and have a strong ferromagnetic exchange interaction between nearest neighbors. This leads to collinear magnetic arrangements in the corral. For Mn and Cr corrals on Pt (111) we find that the Mn and Cr present large magnetic moments, of the order of 4.51µB / atom and 4.15µB / atom respectively, and have antiferromagnetic interatomic exchange interactions between first neighbor. This leads to collinear magnetic arragements in simple corrals, as well as novel non-collinear ordering, as vortex-like structures (skyrmions), for the case of corrals with particular geometry where antiferromagnetism becomes frustrated.