https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2006-00090-4
Magnetic properties of doped GdI2
1
Institut für Theoretische Physik, J.W. Goethe Universität, Max-von-Laue-Strasse 1, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2
Max Planck Institut für Physik Komplexer Systeme, Nöthnitzer strasse 38, 01187 Dresden, Germany
3
Department of Physics and Centre for Theoretical Studies, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, 721302, India
Corresponding authors: a maitra@itp.uni-frankfurt.de - b yaresko@mpipks-dresden.mpg.de
Received:
14
November
2005
Published online:
31
March
2006
Motivated by the recent experimental studies on layered ferromagnetic metallic system GdI2 and its doped variant GdI2Hx we develop a model to understand their ground state magnetic phase diagram. Based on first principle electronic structure calculations we write down a phenomenological model and solve it under certain approximations to obtain the ground state energy. In the process we work out the phase diagram of the correlated double exchange model on a triangular lattice for the specific band structure at hand.
PACS: 75.47.Gk – Colossal magnetoresistance / 75.30.Et – Exchange and superexchange interactions
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