[Pw_forum] antiferromagnetism in thin films

[Giuseppe Mattioli]

Dear Mohnish
changing the subject will not produce automatically an answer... I suspect 
that you are asking something that deserves itself a full investigation. Let 
us know the results.
Yours
Giuseppe

On Tuesday 26 July 2011 12:03:57 mohnish pandey wrote:
> Dear QE users,
>
> I want to do calculations of thin films of antiferromagnetic oxide like
> CoO. The CoO has rocksalt structure and magnetization along (111)
> direction. Suppose we take 3 layers and 4 layers for of CoO along (111),
> then my doubt is that will the magnetization oscillate i.e. in even number
> of layers it will be zero and odd number of layers will have some finite
> value? Or wil the film will show antiferrromagnetism in plane i.e. every
> layers of CoO will be antiferromagnetic? And what about other directions
> like (001) or (10-10) in wurtzite structure.
>
> Thanks a lot in advance for help..



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