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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
卷 85, 期 24, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.85.245443
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- MICINN of Spain [FIS2009-12712, FIS2010-21883, MAT07-67845, CONSOLIDER CSD2007-00010, CONSOLIDER CSD2007-00050]
The observation of intrinsic magnetic order in graphene and graphene-based materials relies on the formation of magnetic moments and a sufficiently strong mutual interaction. Vacancies are arguably considered the primary source of magnetic moments. Here we present an in-depth density functional theory study of the spin-resolved electronic structure of (monoatomic) vacancies in graphene and bilayer graphene. We use two different methodologies: supercell calculations with the SIESTA code and cluster-embedded calculations with the ALACANT package. Our results are conclusive: The vacancy-induced extended pi magnetic moments, which present long-range interactions and are capable of magnetic ordering, vanish at any experimentally relevant vacancy concentration. This holds for sigma-bond passivated and unpassivated reconstructed vacancies, although, for the unpassivated ones, the disappearance of the pi magnetic moments is accompanied by a very large magnetic susceptibility. Only for the unlikely case of a full sigma-bond passivation, preventing the reconstruction of the vacancy, a full value of 1 mu(B) for the pi extended magnetic moment is recovered for both monolayer and bilayer cases. Our results put on hold claims of vacancy-induced ferromagnetic or antiferromagnetic order in graphene-based systems, while still leaving the door open to sigma-type paramagnetism.
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