• Andrey V. Matetskiy
  • Alessandro Barla
  • Paolo Moras
  • Carlo Carbone
  • Valeria Milotti
  • Carlo Alberto Brondin
  • Zipporah Rini Benher
  • Mariia Holub
  • Philippe Ohresser
  • Edwige Otero
  • Fadi Choueikani
  • Igor A. Shvets
  • Alexey N. Mihalyuk
  • Sergey V. Eremeev
  • Polina M. Sheverdyaeva

Magnetic order engineering in two-dimensional Dirac systems is of great interest for theoretical and technological exploration. Up to now, the experimental advances in this field mostly concerned graphene monolayers. Here, we report a comprehensive study of a monolayer-thick germanene-like sheet in contact with gadolinium atoms. Direct observations supported by first-principles calculations reveal the fingerprints of the Dirac fermions in the electronic structure and noncollinear antiferromagnetism. The hybridization of the germanene layer with Gd atoms leads to a large and tunable gap in the Dirac states that carry a nonzero spin-Berry curvature. We discovered that cesium-induced controlled electron doping can switch the system into a ferromagnetic state and then back to the antiferromagnetism at saturated cesium monolayer limit. We explain these reversible magnetic transitions by the oscillatory behavior of the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida interaction and suggest that this system could find application in magnetoelectronics and spintronics.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)20863-20870
Number of pages8
JournalACS Nano
Volume19
Issue number22
DOIs
StatePublished - 10 Jun 2025

    Research areas

  • 2D materials, ARPES, DFT, germanene, reversible AFM-FM transition

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