Half-metallic ferromagnetism in the CsSe compound by density functional theory

The ferromagnetic ground state of the CsSe compound is the most stable with CsCl-type structure with a total magnetic moment of 1 μB/f.u. although this compound does not include transition metal atoms. The CsSe compound is half-metallic ferromagnet with a half-metallic band gap of 3.75 eV. The half-metallicity is also found to be robust with respect to the lattice distortion in the CsCl-type structure. The Curie temperature is estimated to be 390 K in the mean field approximation (MFA).144