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Panjun Feng1, Xiaohui Zhang2, Shuo Zhang1
1College of Physics and Engineering, Qufu Normal University, Qufu, Shandong273165, China.
Abstract:
The MnSn monolayer synthesized recently is a novel two-dimensional ferromagnetic material with a hexagonal lattice, in which three Mn atoms come together to form a trimer, making it remarkably different from other magnetic two-dimensional materials. Most impressively, there occurs a sharp increase of the Curie temperature from 54 to 225 K when the number of layers increases from 1 to 3. However, no quantitative explanation has been reported in previous studies. Herein, by means of the first-principles calculation method and the Monte Carlo method, we demonstrate that strong interlayer ferromagnetic coupling plays an essential role in enhancing its critical temperature, which acts as a magnetic field to stabilize the ferromagnetism in MnSn multilayers. Our work not only explains the sharp increase of the Curie temperature of the MnSn film in experiments but also reveals that the interlayer coupling is a new routine to achieve high-temperature ferromagnetism in two-dimensional materials.
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