Spin-Orbit Coupling’s Effect on the Electronic Properties of Heavy Elements-Based Compounds

Autor: M. Abane, M. Elchikh, S. Bahlouli
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems ISBN: 9783030372064
Popis: The topological insulating is the topic studied in the last days, these compounds have a lot of properties as electronics, optics and till superconducting, among compounds that will be a topological insulating or topological semimetals are: the semi-Heuslers that contain heavy elements of general formula XYZ, this study was about one of them is: ScPdBi. We studied its structural properties to investigate its crystallographic phase: ferromagnetic (FM) or anti-ferromagnetic (AFM), we found that it is an AFM compound and we classified its structural properties parameters. After that, we studied its electronic properties (band structure and DOS) without spin-orbit coupling (SOC) where we found that this compound has a metallic character. Finally, we applied the SOC where we found different results according the electronic properties where the inversion band appeared so the topological non-trivial nature appeared; this compound is from the most important candidate for the superconducting applications found by an external effect about it as hydrostatic pressure. The calculations were by the first principle based in DFT implemented in ELK code; the exchange potential calculated by general gradient approximation (GGA).
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