Electronic structure and magnetic anisotropy of CrO2
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The problem of importance of strong correlations for the electronic structure, transport, and magnetic properties of half-metallic ferromagnetic CrO2 is addressed by performing density functional electronic structure calculations in the local spin density approximation sLSDAd as well as using the LSDA1U method. It is shown that the corresponding low-temperature experimental data are best fitted without accounting for the Hubbard U corrections. We conclude that the ordered phase of CrO2 is weakly correlated.
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