Wednesday, November 7, 2012

1211.1199 (J. H. Sun et al.)

Indirect exchange of magnetic impurities in zigzag graphene ribbon    [PDF]

J. H. Sun, F. M. Hu, H. K. Tang, W. Guo, H. Q. Lin
We use quantum Monte Carlo method to study the indirect coupling between two magnetic impurities on the zigzag edge of graphene ribbon, with respect to the chemical potential $\mu$. We find that the spin-spin correlation between two adatoms located on the nearest sites in the zigzag edge are drastically suppressed around the zero-energy. As we switch the system away from half-filling, the antiferromagnetic correlation is first enhanced and then decreased. If the two adatoms are adsorbed on the sites belonging to the same sublattice, we find similar behavior of spin-spin correlation except for a crossover from ferromagnetic to antiferromagentic correlation in the vicinity of zero-energy. We also calculated the weight of different components of d-electron wave function and local magnet moment for various values of parameters, and all the results are consistent with those of spin-spin correlation between two magnetic impurities.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.1199

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