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Surface Relaxation Effect on the Magnetism of Fe Overlayer on Cr (001)

Journal of Magnetics, Volume 1, Number 1, 30 Jun 1996, Pages 9-13
I.G. Kim(Department of Physics, Inha University), J.I. Lee(Department of Physics, Inha University), Y.R. Jang(Department of Physics, University of Inchon), S.C. Hong(Department of Physics, Univeristy of Ulsan)
Abstract
The effects of surface relaxation on surface and interface magnetism in Fe/Cr (001) are investigated using the highly precise all-electron total-energy full-potential linearized augmented plane wave method. The Fe-Cr interlayer spacing is deter-mined by total-energy calculation and it is found to be relaxed downward by 18%. For the relaxed system, the magnetic moment of surface Fe is highly suppressed to be 1.72μΒ compared to the unrelaxed case (2.39μΒ). This reduction of magnetic moment is considered as a result of the enhanced hybridization between Fe-d and Cr-d states, which can be seen from the calculated density of states. This work suggests the importance of effect of relaxation to the surface and interface magnetism in Fe/Cr system.
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