Magnetic interactions in a proposed diluted magnetic semiconductor (Ba1−xKx)(Zn1−yMny)2P2*

Project supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2017YFA0302903), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11774422 and 11774424), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, and the Research Funds of Renmin University of China (Grant Nos. 14XNLQ03 and 16XNLQ01).

Yang Huan-Cheng, Liu Kai, Lu Zhong-Yi
       

(color online) (a) The schematic diagram of the BaZn2P2 supercell. (b) The substitution sites of Mn atoms in the same Zn layer. Two Mn atoms are arranged as 0–1, 0–2, 0–3, 0–4, and 0–6 pairs, while the integers represent the sequences of Mn neighbors.