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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.