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Tomonori Tanaka

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Magnetic reconstruction of the altermagnet α-MnTe(0001) surface driven by ligand holes

We show from first principles that the altermagnet α-MnTe reconstructs its magnetic order at the Te-terminated (0001) surface. The ground state has a ferromagnetic outermost Mn bilayer in place of the bulk-continued stacking. The driver is the holes that the surface leaves on the Te mediating the exchange within that bilayer. The computed constant-energy contours agree with photoemission maps of the surface metal. Filling the holes restores the bulk order: the carrier density can control the strength of the surface coupling and, by reversing its sign, the surface magnetic order itself.

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General spin models from noncollinear spin density functional theory and spin-cluster expansion

We present a data-efficient framework for constructing general classical spin Hamiltonians by combining the spin-cluster expansion (SCE) with fully self-consistent noncollinear spin density functional theory (DFT). The key idea is to fit the SCE model to magnetic torques rather than to total energies. Because torques are site-resolved vectors, each spin configuration provides many informative regression targets, improving conditioning and substantially reducing the number of required DFT calculations, especially for large supercells. Applied to the B20-type chiral magnets ${\rm Mn}_{1-x}{\rm Fe}_{x}{\rm Ge}$ and ${\rm Fe}_{1-y}{\rm Co}_{y}{\rm Ge}$, the resulting SCE models determine full pairwise exchange tensors -- including isotropic exchange, symmetric anisotropic exchange, and the Dzyaloshinskii--Moriya interaction -- and predict the helical spin period via a micromagnetic mapping. The composition trends and the divergence of the period at the chirality sign-change point are well reproduced, in agreement with experiment. Moreover, the systematic nature of SCE enables controlled assessment of interaction order: as the training spin configurations become more disordered, the lowest-order model loses torque accuracy, whereas including higher-order interactions restores predictive power. These advances enable near-DFT-accurate spin models for finite-temperature magnetism and complex spin textures at modest computational cost, providing an extensible route to quantitative first-principles parameterization and predictive materials design. An open-source implementation is available as a Julia package, \textit{Magesty.jl}.

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Impact of electron--spin coupling on exchange coupling parameters: a nonperturbative approach

Exchange coupling parameters $J_{ij}$ in the Heisenberg model are crucial for describing magnetic behavior at the atomic level. In magnetic materials, spin fluctuations can be accompanied by a self-consistent electronic response -- including charge and magnetization redistribution and changes in orbital occupations -- reflecting electron--spin coupling in the sense of electronic feedback to finite spin rotations. However, the quantitative importance of this coupling in extracting reliable $J_{ij}$ has not been fully clarified. Here, using fully self-consistent, nonperturbative evaluations, we show that finite-angle spin rotations induce such electronic feedback and quantify how strongly it renormalizes the extracted $J_{ij}$. We examine systems of both fundamental and practical interest, including perovskite SrMnO$_3$, Nd-based permanent-magnet compounds (Nd$_2$Fe$_{14}$B and Nd$_2$Co$_{14}$B), and elemental $3d$ transition metals.The nonperturbative approach yields exchange couplings that remain consistent over a wide range of rotation angles. Moreover, spin models parameterized in this way give reasonable agreement with experimental magnetic phase-transition temperatures, underscoring the quantitative role of electron--spin coupling. Overall, our results provide a practical route to constructing quantitatively reliable spin models for predictive finite-temperature simulations and magnetic-materials design.

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Efficient first-principles approach to Gibbs free energy with thermal expansion

We propose a method to evaluate the Gibbs free energy from constant-volume first-principles phonon calculations. The volume integral of the pressure is performed by determining the volume and the bulk modulus in equilibrium at finite temperatures, where the pressure and its volume derivative are evaluated utilizing first-principles calculations of the Grüneisen parameter without varying the volume. We validate our method for fcc Al by comparing with the conventional quasiharmonic approximation. Furthermore, we integrate our method with self-consistent phonon theory and apply it to calculations for bcc Ti, hcp Ti, and tetragonal ZrO$_2$. We demonstrate the accuracy and computational efficiency of our method by comparing results with those obtained from directly volume-varied self-consistent phonon calculations. In all cases, our method accurately evaluates the free energy change due to thermal expansion using only constant-volume phonon calculations.

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Prediction of the Curie temperature considering the dependence of the phonon free energy on magnetic states

Prediction of the Curie temperature is of significant importance for the design of ferromagnetic materials. Even though the Curie temperature has been estimated using the Heisenberg model, magnetic exchange coupling parameters widely used is thus far based on first-principles calculations at zero temperature. In the explicit consideration of temperature effects, it is important to minimise the total free energy, because the magnetic and phonon free energies correlate with each other. Here, we propose a first-principles thermodynamic approach to minimise the total free energy considering both the influences of magnetism on phonons and the feedback effect from phonons to magnetism. By applying our scheme to bcc Fe, we find a significant reduction of the Curie temperature due to the feedback effect. This result inevitably enforces us to change our convention as follows: we should use exchange coupling constants for the disordered local moment state, not for the ferromagnetic state, in the prediction of the Curie temperature. Our results not only change the fundamental understanding of finite-temperature magnetism but also provide a general framework to predict the Curie temperature more accurately.

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