2003
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.91.227201
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Induced Magnetic Ordering by Proton Irradiation in Graphite

Abstract: We provide evidence that proton irradiation of energy 2.25 MeV on highly oriented pyrolytic graphite samples triggers ferro- or ferrimagnetism. Measurements performed with a superconducting quantum interferometer device and magnetic force microscopy reveal that the magnetic ordering is stable at room temperature.

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“…For example, magnetism has experimentally been reported both in nanographene [58,59,60], and in graphite in the presence of disorder [61] or grain boundaries [62], although pristine graphene has not been found to be either magnetic [63] or gapped [64,20]. Theoretically, on-site Coulomb repulsion exceeding U > 3.9t has been found to give an antiferromagnetic state in undoped graphene in quantum Monte Carlo simulations [15,17].…”
Section: Electron Interactions In Graphenementioning
confidence: 99%
“…For example, magnetism has experimentally been reported both in nanographene [58,59,60], and in graphite in the presence of disorder [61] or grain boundaries [62], although pristine graphene has not been found to be either magnetic [63] or gapped [64,20]. Theoretically, on-site Coulomb repulsion exceeding U > 3.9t has been found to give an antiferromagnetic state in undoped graphene in quantum Monte Carlo simulations [15,17].…”
Section: Electron Interactions In Graphenementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Ion irradiation can be used to introduce structural defects in graphene and other carbon allotropes 16 , and provides a versatile tool for manipulating their physical properties 7,[17][18][19][20][21][22] For this purpose, proton irradiation, in particular, attracts much interest due to the observed irradiation-induced magnetism in graphite and graphene [23][24][25][26][27][28][29] , which was attributed to defects, e.g., vacancies and H species 24 . However, an atomic-resolved determination, e.g.…”
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“…It is still unclear whether defects can be generated at a higher proton energy. Moreover, to mimic proton irradiation in various experiments 23,28,29 where fast H + ions with kinetic energy ranging from a few hundred keV to a few MeV were used, it would be very valuable to extend the simulations to that energy range and also explore the effect of the charge state of the projectile.…”
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“…The existence of π-electron magnetism in pure carbon has now been widely accepted (see e.g. [40,41]). On the theoretical side, it is well known that magnetic instabilities exist at specific graphene edges [42,43,44,45], in defective graphene [46] and nanotubes [47].…”
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