Half-metallic ferromagnetism in zinc-blende CaC, SrC, and BaC from first principles
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G. Y. Gao,1,* K. L. Yao,1,2,3,† E. Şaşıoğlu,4,‡ L. M. Sandratskii,5 Z. L. Liu,1 and J. L. Jiang1 1Department of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China 2CCAST (World Laboratory), P. O. Box 8730, Beijing 100800, China 3International Center of Materials Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, Shenyang 110015, China 4Institut für Festkörperforschung, Forschungszentrum Jülich, D-52425 Jülich, Germany 5Max-Planck-Institut für Mikrostrukturphysik, Weinberg 2, D-06120 Halle, Germany Received 15 November 2006; revised manuscript received 26 March 2007; published 25 May 2007
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