Large effect of metal substrate on magnetic anisotropy of Co on hexagonal boron nitride

We combine x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS), x-raymagnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) and x-ray magnetic linear dichroism (XMLD) data with first principles density functional theory (DFT) calculations and amultiorbital many-body Hamiltonian approach to understand the electronic and magnetic proper...

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Autores: Gallardo Arrieta, Iker, Arnau Pino, Andrés, Delgado Acosta, Fernando, Baltic, Romana, Singha, Aparajita, Donati, Fabio, Wackerlin, Christian, Dreiser, Jan, Rusponi, Stefano, Brune, Harald
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universidad del País Vasco
Repositorio:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigación
OAI Identifier:oai:addi.ehu.eus:10810/41891
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10810/41891
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:magnetic anisotropic energy
x-ray absorption
density functional theory
multiplet calculations
total-energy calculations
ray circular-dichroism
magnetocrystalline anisotropy
driven
field
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Sumario:We combine x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS), x-raymagnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) and x-ray magnetic linear dichroism (XMLD) data with first principles density functional theory (DFT) calculations and amultiorbital many-body Hamiltonian approach to understand the electronic and magnetic properties of Co atoms adsorbed on h-BN/Ru(0001) and h-BN/Ir(111). The XAS line shape reveals, for both substrates, an electronic configuration close to 3d(8), corresponding to a spin S = 1 Magnetic field dependent XMCD data show large (14 meV) out-of-plane anisotropy on h-BN/Ru(0001), while it is almost isotropic (tens of mu eV) on h-BN/Ir(111). XMLD data together with both DFT calculations and the results of the multiorbital Hubbard model suggest that the dissimilar magnetic anisotropy originates from different Co adsorption sites, namely atop Non h-BN/Ru(0001) and 6-fold hollow on h-BN/Ir(111).