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@ARTICLE{Sasioglu:8915,
author = {Sasioglu, E. and Schindlmayr, A. and Friedrich, C. and
Freimuth, F. and Blügel, S.},
title = {{W}annier-function approach to spin excitations in solids},
journal = {Physical review / B},
volume = {81},
number = {5},
issn = {1098-0121},
address = {College Park, Md.},
publisher = {APS},
reportid = {PreJuSER-8915},
pages = {054434},
year = {2010},
note = {Fruitful discussions with Y. Mokrousov, G. Bihlmayer, M.
Niesert, A. Gierlich, T. Miyake, and F. Aryasetiawan are
gratefully acknowledged. This work was funded in part by the
EU through the Nanoquanta Network of Excellence (Grant No.
NMP4-CT-2004-500198), the European Theoretical Spectroscopy
Facility e-I3 (Grant No. INFRA-2007-211956), and by the
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft through the Priority
Programme 1145.},
abstract = {We present a computational scheme to study spin excitations
in magnetic materials from first principles. The central
quantity is the transverse spin susceptibility, from which
the complete excitation spectrum, including single-particle
spin-flip Stoner excitations and collective spin-wave modes,
can be obtained. The susceptibility is derived from
many-body perturbation theory and includes dynamic
correlation through a summation over ladder diagrams that
describe the coupling of electrons and holes with opposite
spins. In contrast to earlier studies, we do not use a model
potential with adjustable parameters for the electron-hole
interaction but employ the random-phase approximation. To
reduce the numerical cost for the calculation of the
four-point scattering matrix we perform a projection onto
maximally localized Wannier functions, which allows us to
truncate the matrix efficiently by exploiting the short
spatial range of electronic correlation in the partially
filled d or f orbitals. Our implementation is based on the
full-potential linearized augmented-plane-wave method.
Starting from a ground-state calculation within the
local-spin-density approximation (LSDA), we first analyze
the matrix elements of the screened Coulomb potential in the
Wannier basis for the 3d transition-metal series. In
particular, we discuss the differences between a constrained
nonmagnetic and a proper spin-polarized treatment for the
ferromagnets Fe, Co, and Ni. The spectrum of single-particle
and collective spin excitations in fcc Ni is then studied in
detail. The calculated spin-wave dispersion is in good
overall agreement with experimental data and contains both
an acoustic and an optical branch for intermediate wave
vectors along the [1 0 0] direction. In addition, we find
evidence for a similar double-peak structure in the spectral
function along the [1 1 1] direction. To investigate the
influence of static correlation we finally consider LSDA+U
as an alternative starting point and show that, together
with an improved description of the Fermi surface, it yields
a more accurate quantitative value for the spin-wave
stiffness constant, which is overestimated in the LSDA.},
keywords = {J (WoSType)},
cin = {IFF-1 / IAS-1 / JARA-FIT / JARA-HPC},
ddc = {530},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)VDB781 / I:(DE-Juel1)IAS-1-20090406 /
$I:(DE-82)080009_20140620$ / I:(DE-Juel1)VDB1346},
pnm = {Grundlagen für zukünftige Informationstechnologien / ETSF
- European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility I3 (211956)},
pid = {G:(DE-Juel1)FUEK412 / G:(EU-Grant)211956},
shelfmark = {Physics, Condensed Matter},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000274998000084},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevB.81.054434},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/8915},
}