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Double exchange-driven spin pairing at the (001) surface of manganites

Alessio Filippetti, Warren E. Pickett

cond-mat.mtrl-sciarXiv:cond-mat/0001373

Abstract

The (001) surface of La1-xCaxMnO3 system in various magnetic orderings is studied by first principle calculations. A general occurrence is that z2 dangling bond charge -- which is ``invisible'' in the formal valence picture -- is promoted to the bulk gap/Fermi level region. This drives a double-exchange-like process that serves to align the surface Mn spin with its subsurface neighbor, regardless of the bulk magnetic order. For heavy doping, the locally ``ferromagnetic'' coupling is very strong and the moment enhanced by as much as 30% over the bulk value.

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