Electronic structure and x-ray magnetic circular dichroism in the quadruple perovskite CaCu3Re2Fe2O12

Abstract

We have studied the electronic and magnetic properties of the A- and B-site-ordered perovskite CaCu3Re2Fe2O12 within the density-functional theory using the generalized gradient approximation (GGA) with the consideration of strong Coulomb correlations (GGA+U ) in the framework of the fully relativistic spin-polarized Dirac linear muffin-tin orbital band structure method. We have calculated the x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) and x-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) spectra at the Cu, Fe, Re L2,3 and O K edges. The calculated results are in good agreement with experiment. We show that the GGA+U method produces better agreement with the experimental spectra if Hubbard U is applied to Cu and Fe sites.