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TT: Fachverband Tiefe Temperaturen
TT 20: 2D Materials: Electronic Structure and Exitations I (joint session O/HL/TT)
TT 20.9: Talk
Tuesday, March 18, 2025, 12:30–12:45, H8
Orbital mixing as key mechanism for ferromagnetism in van der Waals CrI3 — •Alessandro De Vita1,2, Srdjan Stavrič3, Roberto Sant4, Nicholas B. Brookes4, Giancarlo Panaccione5, Silvia Picozzi3, Ralph Ernstorfer1,2, and Tommaso Pincelli1,2 — 1Institut für Optik und Atomare Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Straße des 17 Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, Germany — 2Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany — 3Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche CNR-SPIN, c/o Università degli Studi G. D'Annunzio, 66100 Chieti, Italy — 4ESRF, The European Synchrotron, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, CS40220, 38043 Grenoble Cedex 9, France — 5Istituto Officina dei Materiali (IOM)-CNR, Laboratorio TASC, in Area Science Park, S.S.14, km 163.5, I-34149 Trieste, Italy
Van der Waals ferromagnets constitute a versatile platform where exotic quantum states can be realized; among them, CrI3 is a prototypical and widely studied 2D ferromagnet, with promising applications in spin- and orbitronics. Despite that, key information on its electronic occupation and stabilization of the magnetic configuration are missing. By means of complementary absorption and photoemission spectroscopies, and density functional theory calculations, we give a description of the orbital character of bulk CrI3, and demonstrate that the emergence of ferromagnetism in this material is underpinned by the orbital mixing between I p and Cr eg states. Our results have clear impact on the understanding of how microscopic interactions at the orbital level stabilize ordered states in van der Waals ferromagnets.
Keywords: Van der Waals materials; Electronic structure; ARPES