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@ARTICLE{Kashid:156113,
author = {Kashid, Vikas and Schena, Timo and Zimmermann, Bernd and
Mokrousov, Yuriy and Blügel, Stefan and Shah, Vaishali and
Salunke, H. G.},
title = {{D}zyaloshinskii-{M}oriya interaction and chiral magnetism
in 3d − 5d zigzag chains: {T}ight-binding model and ab
initio calculations},
journal = {Physical review / B},
volume = {90},
number = {5},
issn = {1098-0121},
address = {College Park, Md.},
publisher = {APS},
reportid = {FZJ-2014-04987},
pages = {054412},
year = {2014},
abstract = {We investigate the chiral magnetic order in freestanding
planar 3d−5d biatomic metallic chains (3d: Fe, Co; 5d: Ir,
Pt, Au) using first-principles calculations based on density
functional theory. We find that the antisymmetric exchange
interaction, commonly known as the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya
interaction (DMI), contributes significantly to the
energetics of the magnetic structure. For the Fe-Pt and
Co-Pt chains, the DMI can compete with the isotropic
Heisenberg-type exchange interaction and the
magnetocrystalline anisotropy energy, and for both cases a
homogeneous left-rotating cycloidal chiral spin-spiral with
a wavelength of 51 Å and 36 Å, respectively, was found.
The sign of the DMI, which determines the handedness of the
magnetic structure, changes in the sequence of the 5d atoms
Ir(+), Pt(−), Au(+). We use the full-potential linearized
augmented plane wave method and perform self-consistent
calculations of homogeneous spin spirals, calculating the
DMI by treating the effect of spin-orbit interaction in the
basis of the spin-spiral states in first-order perturbation
theory. To gain insight into the DMI results of our ab
initio calculations, we develop a minimal tight-binding
model of three atoms and four orbitals that contains all
essential features: the spin canting between the magnetic 3d
atoms, the spin-orbit interaction at the 5d atoms, and the
structure inversion asymmetry facilitated by the triangular
geometry. We find that spin canting can lead to spin-orbit
active eigenstates that split in energy due to the
spin-orbit interaction at the 5d atom. We show that the sign
and strength of the hybridization, the bonding or
antibonding character between d orbitals of the magnetic and
nonmagnetic sites, the bandwidth, and the energy difference
between occupied and unoccupied states of different spin
projection determine the sign and strength of the DMI. The
key features observed in the trimer model are also found in
the first-principles results.},
cin = {IAS-1 / PGI-1},
ddc = {530},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IAS-1-20090406 / I:(DE-Juel1)PGI-1-20110106},
pnm = {422 - Spin-based and quantum information (POF2-422)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF2-422},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000341266000004},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevB.90.054412},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/156113},
}