First principles description of the insulator-metal transition in europium monoxide
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ArticleKAUST Department
Computational Physics and Materials Science (CPMS)Material Science and Engineering Program
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
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2012-02Permanent link to this record
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Europium monoxide, EuO, is a ferromagnetic insulator. Its electronic structure under pressure and doping is investigated by means of density functional theory. We employ spin polarized electronic structure calculations including onsite electron-electron interaction for the localized Eu 4f and 5d electrons. Our results show that under pressure the ferromagnetism is stable, both for hydrostatic and uniaxial pressure, while the compound undergoes an insulator-metal transition. The insulator-metal transition in O deficient and Gd doped EuO is reproduced for an impurity concentration of 6.25%. A 10 monolayer thick EuO(1 0 0) thin film is predicted to be an insulator with a narrow band gap of 0.08 eV. © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Citation
Wang, H., Schuster, C., & Schwingenschlögl, U. (2012). First principles description of the insulator–metal transition in europium monoxide. Chemical Physics Letters, 524, 68–72. doi:10.1016/j.cplett.2011.12.034Sponsors
We thank N. Jutong, S. Nazir, N. Singh, and Z.Y. Zhu for helpful suggestions, and KAUST Research Computing for providing computational resources. Financial support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (TRR 80) is acknowledged.Publisher
Elsevier BVJournal
Chemical Physics Lettersae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1016/j.cplett.2011.12.034