报告题目：Spin orbit coupling contribution to anisotropic magnetic interaction

主讲人：万贤纲教授 南京大学

时间：2023年4月22日（周六）上午9:00-12:00

地点：图书馆1F-9

摘要：Anisotropic magnetic exchange interactions lead to a surprisingly rich variety of the magnetic properties. Considering the spin orbit coupling (SOC) as perturbation, we extract the general expression of a bilinear spin Hamiltonian, including isotropic exchange interaction, antisymmetric Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction and symmetric Γ term. Though it is commonly believed that the magnitude of the DM and Γ interaction correspond to the first and second order of SOC strength respectively, we clarify that the term proportional to λ² also has contribution to DM interaction. Based on combining magnetic force theorem and linear-response approach, we have presented the method of calculating anisotropic magnetic interactions, which now has been implemented in the open source software WienJ. Furthermore, we introduce another method which could calculate the first and second order SOC contribution to the DM interaction separately, and overcome some shortcomings of previous methods. Our methods are successfully applied to several typical weak ferromagnets for 3d, 4d and 5d transition metal oxides. We also predict the conditions where the DM interactions proportional to λ are symmetrically forbidden while the DM interactions proportional to λ² are nonzero, and believe that it is widespread in certain magnetic materials.

报告人介绍：万贤纲，南京大学bat365官网登录入口教授，1990年至2000年在南京大学学习，获得学士、硕士、博士学位。2001起在南京大学历任讲师，副教授，2010年任教授。万贤纲教授提出了新型拓扑量子态—Weyl 半金属，引发了国际上Weyl 半金属的研究热潮；发展了一套计算磁性相互作用的方法并确定多个复杂体系的基态磁构型；基于原子绝缘体基组发展了高效判断拓扑性能的理论方法，并用其对无机材料数据库里面所有非磁材料的拓扑特性进行了分类。万贤纲教授获得2014年度香港大学Daniel Tsui Fellowship；2015年获得国家杰出青年科学基金；2016年被评为教育部长江学者特聘教授；获中国物理学会2018-2019年度叶企孙物理奖；2019年获首届腾讯基金会“科学探索奖”；获2019年南京大学突出贡献奖；2020年获第二届全国创新争先奖。