Influence of temperature, doping, and amorphization on the electronic structure and magnetic damping of iron

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Hauptverfasser: Jiang, Zhihao, Hoffmann, Axel, Schleife, André
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author Jiang, Zhihao
Hoffmann, Axel
Schleife, André
author_facet Jiang, Zhihao
Hoffmann, Axel
Schleife, André
contents Hybrid magnonic quantum systems have drawn increased attention in recent years for coherent quantum information processing, but too large magnetic damping is a persistent concern when metallic magnets are used. Their intrinsic damping is largely determined by electron-magnon scattering induced by spin-orbit interactions. In the low scattering limit, damping is dominated by intra-band electronic transitions, which has been theoretically shown to be proportional to the electronic density of states at the Fermi level. In this work, we focus on body-centered-cubic iron as a paradigmatic ferromagnetic material. We comprehensively study its electronic structure using first-principles density functional theory simulations and account for finite lattice temperature, boron (B) doping, and structure amorphization. Our results indicate that temperature induced atomic disorder and amorphous atomic geometries only have a minor influence. Instead, boron doping noticeably decreases the density of states near the Fermi level with an optimal doping level of 6.25%. In addition, we show that this reduction varies significantly for different atomic geometries and report that the highest reduction correlates with a large magnetization of the material. This may suggest materials growth under external magnetic fields as a route to explore in experiment.
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spellingShingle Influence of temperature, doping, and amorphization on the electronic structure and magnetic damping of iron
Jiang, Zhihao
Hoffmann, Axel
Schleife, André
Materials Science
Computational Physics
Hybrid magnonic quantum systems have drawn increased attention in recent years for coherent quantum information processing, but too large magnetic damping is a persistent concern when metallic magnets are used. Their intrinsic damping is largely determined by electron-magnon scattering induced by spin-orbit interactions. In the low scattering limit, damping is dominated by intra-band electronic transitions, which has been theoretically shown to be proportional to the electronic density of states at the Fermi level. In this work, we focus on body-centered-cubic iron as a paradigmatic ferromagnetic material. We comprehensively study its electronic structure using first-principles density functional theory simulations and account for finite lattice temperature, boron (B) doping, and structure amorphization. Our results indicate that temperature induced atomic disorder and amorphous atomic geometries only have a minor influence. Instead, boron doping noticeably decreases the density of states near the Fermi level with an optimal doping level of 6.25%. In addition, we show that this reduction varies significantly for different atomic geometries and report that the highest reduction correlates with a large magnetization of the material. This may suggest materials growth under external magnetic fields as a route to explore in experiment.
title Influence of temperature, doping, and amorphization on the electronic structure and magnetic damping of iron
topic Materials Science
Computational Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.08076