Computational design of axion insulators based on 5d spinel compounds.

Phys Rev Lett

National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures and Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China.

Published: April 2012

Based on density functional calculation using the local density approximation+U method, we predict that osmium compounds such as CaOs(2)O(4) and SrOs(2)O(4) can be stabilized in the geometrically frustrated spinel crystal structure. They show ferromagnetic order in a reasonable range of the on-site Coulomb correlation U and exotic electronic properties, in particular, a large magnetoelectric coupling characteristic of axion electrodynamics. Depending on U, other electronic phases including a 3D Weyl semimetal and Mott insulator are also shown to occur.

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