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Benchmark for Ab Initio Prediction of Magnetic Structures Based on Cluster-Multipole Theory

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The cluster multipole (CMP) expansion for magnetic structures provides a scheme to systematically generate candidate magnetic structures specifically including noncollinear magnetic configurations adapted to the crystal symmetry of a given… Click to show full abstract

The cluster multipole (CMP) expansion for magnetic structures provides a scheme to systematically generate candidate magnetic structures specifically including noncollinear magnetic configurations adapted to the crystal symmetry of a given material. A comparison with the experimental data collected on MAGNDATA shows that the most stable magnetic configurations in nature are linear combinations of only few CMPs. Furthermore, a high-throughput calculation for all candidate magnetic structures is performed in the framework of spin-density functional theory (SDFT). We benchmark the predictive power of CMP+SDFT with $2935$ calculations, which show that (i) the CMP expansion administers an exhaustive list of candidate magnetic structures, (ii) CMP+SDFT can narrow down the possible magnetic configurations to a handful of computed configurations, and (iii) SDFT reproduces the experimental magnetic configurations with an accuracy of $\pm0.5\,\mu_\text{B}$. For a subset the impact of on-site Coulomb repulsion $U$ is investigated by means of $1545$ CMP+SDFT+U calculations revealing no further improvement on the predictive power.

Keywords: theory; benchmark; magnetic structures; cluster multipole; magnetic configurations

Journal Title: Physical Review X
Year Published: 2021

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