• 文献标题:   A Model Study of Substrate Effect on the Neutron-Scattering Spectra of Ferromagnetic Ordered Graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   SAHU S, PANDA SK, ROUT GC
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, tightbinding calculation, ferromagnetic spinsusceptibility, neutron scattering
  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NOVEL MAGNETISM
  • ISSN:   1557-1939 EI 1557-1947
  • 通讯作者地址:   Condensed Matter Phys Grp
  • 被引频次:   1
  • DOI:   10.1007/s10948-017-4158-6
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

Graphene as a possible new magnetic material has stimulated research interest for application in spintronic devices. Pristine graphene does not show magnetism due to equivalence of the two sub-lattices of carbon atoms. It is predicted that impurity effects, substrate-induced gap, and defects, are expected to produce in-equivalence in two carbon sub-lattices leading to magnetism. The spins on the same sub-lattices are found to exhibit ferromagnetic order and spins of different sub-lattices are found to exhibit anti-ferromagnetic order. We consider here impurity and substrate effects as the cause of generation of magnetism in graphene. We report here a microscopic tight-binding study of frequency-dependent neutron scattering spectra for ferromagnetic ordering in the graphene systems. The tight-binding Hamiltonian consists of electron hoppings upto third nearest neighbors and substrate and impurity effects in the presence of Coulomb interaction of electrons separately at two in-equivalent A and B sub-lattices of graphene. We calculate the two-particle electron Green's functions by using Zubarev's Green's function technique. The frequency-dependent scattering intensity of the system is computed numerically. The spectra displays a sharp peak at the neutron momentum transfer energy at low energies and another higher-energy peak appearing at substrate-induced gap.