Wurtzite vs rock-salt MnSe epitaxy: electronic and altermagnetic properties
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| author | Grzybowski, Michał J. Autieri, Carmine Domagała, Jarosław Krasucki, Cezary Kaleta, Anna Kret, Sławomir Gas, Katarzyna Sawicki, Maciej Bożek, Rafał Suffczyński, Jan Pacuski, Wojciech |
| author_facet | Grzybowski, Michał J. Autieri, Carmine Domagała, Jarosław Krasucki, Cezary Kaleta, Anna Kret, Sławomir Gas, Katarzyna Sawicki, Maciej Bożek, Rafał Suffczyński, Jan Pacuski, Wojciech |
| contents | Newly discovered altermagnets are magnetic materials exhibiting both compensated magnetic order, similar to antiferromagnets, and simultaneous non-relativistic spin-splitting of the bands, akin to ferromagnets. This characteristic arises from the specific symmetry operations that connect the spin sublattices. In this report, we show with ab initio calculations that the semiconductive MnSe exhibits altermagnetic spin-splitting in the wurtzite phase as well as a critical temperature well above room temperature. It is the first material from such space group identified to possess altermagnetic properties. Furthermore, we demonstrate experimentally through structural characterization techniques that it is possible to obtain thin films of both the intriguing wurtzite phase of MnSe and the more common rock-salt MnSe using molecular beam epitaxy on GaAs substrates. The choice of buffer layers plays a crucial role in determining the resulting phase and consequently extends the array of materials available for the physics of altermagnetism. |
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| spellingShingle | Wurtzite vs rock-salt MnSe epitaxy: electronic and altermagnetic properties Grzybowski, Michał J. Autieri, Carmine Domagała, Jarosław Krasucki, Cezary Kaleta, Anna Kret, Sławomir Gas, Katarzyna Sawicki, Maciej Bożek, Rafał Suffczyński, Jan Pacuski, Wojciech Materials Science Newly discovered altermagnets are magnetic materials exhibiting both compensated magnetic order, similar to antiferromagnets, and simultaneous non-relativistic spin-splitting of the bands, akin to ferromagnets. This characteristic arises from the specific symmetry operations that connect the spin sublattices. In this report, we show with ab initio calculations that the semiconductive MnSe exhibits altermagnetic spin-splitting in the wurtzite phase as well as a critical temperature well above room temperature. It is the first material from such space group identified to possess altermagnetic properties. Furthermore, we demonstrate experimentally through structural characterization techniques that it is possible to obtain thin films of both the intriguing wurtzite phase of MnSe and the more common rock-salt MnSe using molecular beam epitaxy on GaAs substrates. The choice of buffer layers plays a crucial role in determining the resulting phase and consequently extends the array of materials available for the physics of altermagnetism. |
| title | Wurtzite vs rock-salt MnSe epitaxy: electronic and altermagnetic properties |
| topic | Materials Science |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.06422 |