Describing Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya spirals from first principles

Physica B: Condensed Matter

Volumn 404, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 2678-2683

  Heide, M ^a   Bihlmayer, G ^a   Blugel S ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dzyaloshinskii Moriya interaction; First principles calculations; Spiral spin density waves

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; DIFFERENT ORDER; DZYALOSHINSKII-MORIYA; DZYALOSHINSKII-MORIYA INTERACTION; FIRST-PRINCIPLES; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATIONS; INTERACTION PARAMETERS; MAGNETIC SYSTEM; PERTURBATIVE APPROACH; SPATIAL INVERSION SYMMETRY; SPIRAL SPIN-DENSITY WAVES; THIN FE FILMS;

DENSITY (OPTICAL); LITHIUM BATTERIES; MAGNETIC STRUCTURE; SOLID STATE PHYSICS; SPIN DYNAMICS;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EID: 69249203506     PISSN: 09214526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physb.2009.06.070     Document Type: Article

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