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We present first principles calculations of the exchange interactions between magnetic impurities deposited on (001), (110) and (111) surfaces of Cu and Au and analyze them, in particular, in the asymptotic regime. For the (110) and the (111) surfaces we demonstrate that the interaction shows an oscillatory behavior as a function of the distance, R, of the impurities and that the amplitude of the oscillations decays as 1/R^2. Furthermore, the frequency of the oscillations is closely related to the length of the Fermi vector of the surface states existing on these surfaces. Due to the asymmetry of the the surface states dispersion, the frequency of the oscillations becomes also asymmetric on the (110) surfaces, while on the Au(111) surface two distinct frequencies are found in the oscillations as a consequence of the Bychkov-Rashba splitting of the surface states. Remarkably, no long range oscillations of the exchange interaction are observed for the (001) surfaces where the surface states are unoccupied. When burying the impurities beneath the surface layer, oscillations mediated by the bulk states become visible.
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The effective spin exchange coupling between impurities (adatoms) on graphene mediated by conduction electrons is studied as a function of the strength of the potential part of the on-site energy $U$ of the electron-adatom interaction. With increasing $U$, the exchange coupling becomes long-range, determined largely by the impurity levels with energies close to the Dirac points. When adatoms reside on opposite sublattices, their exchange coupling, normally antiferromagnetic, becomes ferromagnetic and resonantly enhanced at a specific distance where an impurity level crosses the Dirac point.
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Matic Poberv{z}nik
, Anton Kokalj (Department of Physical andn Organic Chemistry
, Jov{z}ef Stefan Institute
2020
Even something as conceptually simple as adsorption of electronegative adatoms on metal surfaces, where repulsive lateral interactions are expected for obvious reasons, can lead to unanticipated behavior. In this context, we explain the origin of surprising lateral interactions between electronegative adatoms observed on some metal surfaces by means of density functional theory calculations of four electronegative atoms (N, O, F, Cl) on 70 surfaces of 44 pristine metals. Four different scenarios for lateral interactions are identified, some of them being unexpected: (i) they are repulsive, which is the typical case and occurs on almost all transition metals. (ii,iii) They are atypical, being either attractive or negligible, which occurs on p-block metals and Mg, and (iv) surface reconstruction stabilizes the low-coverage configuration, preventing atypical lateral interactions. The last case occurs predominantly on s-block metals.
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