Two-band ferromagnetic Kondo-lattice model for local-moment half-metals
Michael Kreissl and W. Nolting (2008)
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 20(3):035222. ( BibTeX export )
We introduce a two-band Kondo-lattice model to describe
ferromagnetic half-metals with local magnetic moments. In a model study,
the electronic and magnetic properties are presented by
temperature-dependent magnetization curves, bandstructures, spin
polarizations and plasma frequencies. These are obtained from numerically
evaluated equations, based on the single-electron Green functions. We show
that the mutual influence between the itinerant electrons and the local
magnetic moments is responsible for several phase transitions of the
half-metals, namely first and second order magnetic phase transitions, as
well as half-metal to semiconductor and half-metal to semimetal
transitions.