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Chin. Phys. B, 2023, Vol. 32(2): 027103    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/ac9e96
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Magnetic ground state of plutonium dioxide: DFT+U calculations

Yue-Fei Hou(侯跃飞)1, Wei Jiang(江伟)1, Shu-Jing Li(李淑静)2, Zhen-Guo Fu(付振国)1, and Ping Zhang(张平)1,3,†
1 Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100088, China;
2 Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China;
3 School of Physics and Physical Engineering, Qufu Normal University, Qufu 273165, China
Abstract  The magnetic states of the strongly correlated system plutonium dioxide (PuO2) are studied based on the density functional theory (DFT) plus Hubbard U (DFT+U) method with spin-orbit coupling (SOC) included. A series of typical magnetic structures including the multiple-k types are simulated and compared in the aspect of atomic structure and total energy. We test LDA, PBE, and SCAN exchange-correlation functionals on PuO2 and a longitudinal 3k antiferromagnetic (AFM) ground state is theoretically determined. This magnetic structure has been identified to be the most stable one by the former computational work using the hybrid functional. Our DFT+U+SOC calculations for the longitudinal 3k AFM ground state suggest a direct gap which is in good agreement with the experimental value. In addition, a genetic algorithm is employed and proved to be effective in predicting magnetic ground state of PuO2. Finally, a comparison between the results of two extensively used DFT+U approaches to this system is made.
Keywords:  strongly correlated system      magnetic ground state      noncollinear      MagGene  
Received:  23 August 2022      Revised:  28 October 2022      Accepted manuscript online:  31 October 2022
PACS:  71.27.+a (Strongly correlated electron systems; heavy fermions)  
  71.15.Mb (Density functional theory, local density approximation, gradient and other corrections)  
  75.10.Dg (Crystal-field theory and spin Hamiltonians)  
Fund: Project supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China, (Grant No. 12104034).
Corresponding Authors:  Ping Zhang     E-mail:  zhang_ping@iapcm.ac.cn

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Yue-Fei Hou(侯跃飞), Wei Jiang(江伟), Shu-Jing Li(李淑静), Zhen-Guo Fu(付振国), and Ping Zhang(张平) Magnetic ground state of plutonium dioxide: DFT+U calculations 2023 Chin. Phys. B 32 027103

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