Phase transitions in FeBO3 under pressure: DFT+DMFT study
A. A. Dyachenko+, A. O. Shorikov+* 1), V. I. Anisimov+*
+M.N. Miheev Institute of Metal Physics of Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, 620990 Yekaterinburg, Russia
*Ural Federal University, 620002 Ekaterinburg, Russia
Abstract
We present a theoretical study of spectral, magnetic, and structural
properties of the iron borate FeBO3. Within the DFT+DMFT method
combining density functional theory with dynamical mean-field theory
FeBO3 was investigated under pressures up to 70 GPa at 300 K. We found
that FeBO3 is an insulator with a gap of 2.0 eV with antiferromagnetic
ordering at ambient pressure in agreement with experiments. In our
calculations we showed that Fe ions in FeBO3 undergo a high-spin to
low-spin transition under pressure with change from antiferromagnetic to
paramagnetic state, and demonstrate that the spin and magnetic transitions
occur simultaneously with an isostructural transition at 50.4 GPa with the
volume collapse of 13 %.