Robust half-metallicity and magnetic phase transition in Sr2CrReO6 via strain engineering

Abstract Using ab-initio calculations, the electronic and magnetic properties of double perovskite oxide $${\text{Sr}}_2 {\text{CrReO}}_6$$ Sr 2 CrReO 6 with two type of strains: biaxial (along the [110]-direction) and hydrostatic (along [111]-direction) are investigated. The ground state of the uns...

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Autores principales: Qurat-Ul Ain, Shahnila Naseem, Safdar Nazir
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Publicado: Nature Portfolio 2020
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Sumario:Abstract Using ab-initio calculations, the electronic and magnetic properties of double perovskite oxide $${\text{Sr}}_2 {\text{CrReO}}_6$$ Sr 2 CrReO 6 with two type of strains: biaxial (along the [110]-direction) and hydrostatic (along [111]-direction) are investigated. The ground state of the unstrained system is half-metallic ferrimagnetic, due to a strong antiferromagnetic (AFM) coupling between Cr and Re atoms within both (GGA and GGA+U) exchange-correlation potentials. It is demonstrated that the robustness of half-metallicity can be preserved under the influence of both biaxial and hydrostatic strains. Interestingly, a transition from ferri-to-ferromagnetic is established due to Re spin flipping to that of the Cr ion (i.e. Cr and Re spin becomes parallel) within the GGA+U method for both biaxial and hydrostatic tensile strains of $$\ge +2\%$$ ≥ + 2 % . The strong confinement of orbitals due to tensile strain results in the decrease of electron hopping which further reduced the AFM coupling strength between Cr and Re atoms, this leads to a ferri-to-ferromagnetic transition. However, the GGA scheme holds the ferrimagnetic state with both kinds of strains. This work shows that tensile strain is a feasible way to optimize the magnetic properties of perovskite oxides, which are presumed to be beneficial for spintronic technology.