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The electronic properties and ferromagnetic coupling interactions of Mg-doped cubic boron nitride (BN) have been investigated by using first-principles calculation method. The calculated results show that Mg-doped BN takes ferromagnetic ground state with magnetic moment of 0.565 μ B which mainly comes from the unpaired 2p electron of N atoms around the Mg dopant. The magnetic coupling between Mg dopants induced moments is long-ranged. It also was found that the Mg-doped BN system has high spin polarization near the Fermi level.
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Yan, H., Guo, Y., Song, Q. et al. Electronic Structure and Ferromagnetic Properties of MgDoped Cubic BN from First-Principles Calculation. J Supercond Nov Magn 28, 2425–2430 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10948-015-3044-3
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