Hysteresis features of the transition-metal dichalcogenides VX$_2$ (X=S, Se, and Te)

TL;DR

This study uses Monte Carlo simulations to analyze the hysteresis behavior of VX$_2$ monolayers, revealing temperature-dependent changes in magnetic properties relevant for nanoelectronic and spintronic applications.

Contribution

It provides a systematic investigation of hysteresis features in VX$_2$ monolayers across a wide temperature range using Monte Carlo simulations.

Findings

Remanence and coercivity decrease with temperature.

Hysteresis curves evolve from rectangular to S-shaped as temperature increases.

Magnetic properties are temperature-dependent up to 600 K.

Abstract

Very recently, it has been shown that vanadium dichalcogenides (VX$_2$, X=S, Se and Te) monolayers show intrinsic ferromagnetism, and their critical temperatures are nearly to or beyond room temperature. Hence, they would have wide potential applications in next-generation nanoelectronic and spintronic devices. In this work, being inspired by a recent study we systematically perform Monte Carlo simulations based on single-site update Metropolis algorithm to investigate the hysteresis features of VX$_2$ monolayers for a wide range of temperatures up to 600 K. Our simulation results indicate that, both remanence and coercivity values tend to decrease with increasing temperature. Furthermore, it is found that hysteresis curves start to evolve from rectangular at the lower temperature regions to nearly S-shaped with increasing temperature.