Local spin density functional investigations of the chemical bonding and magnetism in the CMR pyrochlore compound Tl2Mn2O7
- 1 January 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of Materials Chemistry
- Vol. 7 (8) , 1457-1460
- https://doi.org/10.1039/a700530j
Abstract
The electronic and magnetic structures of the ferromagnetic pyrochlore compound Tl 2 Mn 2 O 7 , exhibiting colossal magnetoresistance (CMR), are self-consistently calculated within the local spin density functional theory using the augmented spherical wave (ASW) method. The influence of mixing between the different l-valence states on the chemical bonding is discussed from the site projected densities of states (DOS) and from the crystal orbital overlap population (COOP). From this a description of the nature of chemical bonding is proposed in relation with the development of the magnetic moment of Mn (2.77 µ B ) which is found in good agreement with experimental results. Besides, from the calculations a new magnetic property of a weakly half-metallic ferromagnet is proposed.Keywords
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