First-principles analysis of the effect of magnetic states on the oxygen vacancy formation energy in doped La$_{0.5}$Sr$_{0.5}$CoO$_3$ perovskite

Andreas Zienert; Florian Fuchs; J\"org Schuster; Wei Wei; Xiao Hu

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First-principles analysis of the effect of magnetic states on the oxygen vacancy formation energy in doped La$_{0.5}$Sr$_{0.5}$CoO$_3$ perovskite

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Pith's one-line read This paper establishes that oxygen-vacancy formation energies in doped La0.5Sr0.5CoO3 depend on the magnetic state, and that ferromagnetic-only models can mislead dopant screening.

desk verdict Systematic DFT+U study showing magnetic state matters for oxygen vacancy formation in doped cobaltite, but the 20-configuration PM sampling needs a convergence check. read the letter →

arxiv 2507.07614 v1 pith:H2IF53CG submitted 2025-07-10 cond-mat.mtrl-sci

Wei Wei , Florian Fuchs , Andreas Zienert , Xiao Hu , Jörg Schuster This is my paper · ORCID

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keywords oxygenvacancyformationenergyparamagneticstateferromagneticdoubleexchangeperovskiteLa0.5Sr0.5CoO3transition-metaldopingDFT+U

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The reading

Oxygen vacancies are the working defects of fast-ion-conducting perovskite cathodes, and their formation energies decide which dopants improve performance. This paper asks whether the magnetic state of the host, La0.5Sr0.5CoO3, changes that decision. It claims that the paramagnetic state relevant at operating temperatures yields a different trend of vacancy formation energies across 3d dopants (Mn, Fe, Ni, Cu) than the ferromagnetic ground state, and that ferromagnetic-only calculations can therefore be misleading. The difference is traced to double exchange: the magnetic bridge that an oxygen forms between two cobalt ions is obstructed to different degrees by each dopant and by the vacancy itself.

What carries the argument

The argument is carried by two complementary tools. First, the paramagnetic state is modelled by the magnetic sampling method: an average of 20 collinear spin configurations, each with zero total magnetic moment, in a 40-atom supercell. Second, the double exchange interaction, the coupling of two cation spins through a shared oxygen ion, is the physical mechanism invoked to explain the results: in the ferromagnetic state the oxygen between two cobalt ions bridges their spins, and removing that oxygen (or replacing a cobalt with a low-spin Ni or Cu) interrupts the bridge, changing the energetics of vacancy formation. The analysis is condensed into a band-center descriptor, the energy difference between the occupied O 2p and TM 3d band centers, whose FM–PM shift correlates linearly with the FM–PM shift in vacancy formation energy.

What would settle it

Repeat the vacancy-energy calculation for a doped system, such as Fe-doped La0.5Sr0.5CoO3, using a magnetic ensemble shown to converge (e.g., hundreds of collinear configurations or a CPA-based disordered-local-moment model), and compare the paramagnetic vacancy formation energies with the ferromagnetic ones; if the FM–PM differences of 0.3–0.4 eV vanish or reverse for either vacancy site, the central claim fails.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

The paper claims that the oxygen-vacancy formation energy in La0.5Sr0.5CoO3 doped with 3d transition metals cannot be reliably predicted from the ferromagnetic ground state alone. When a paramagnetic state is modelled by averaging collinear spin configurations, the vacancy formation energy is generally lowered relative to the ferromagnetic state, but by amounts that depend on both the dopant and the vacancy site: about 0.6 eV in undoped LSC, 0.3–0.4 eV for Mn and Fe dopants, and near zero at the nearest-neighbour vacancy for Ni and Cu. The ordering of vacancy formation energies across dopants changes between the two magnetic states, which is why ferromagnetic-only screening is misleading. The paper attributes these magnetic-state effects to double exchange: the oxygen between two cobalt ions acts as a magnetic bridge, and dopants or vacancies obstruct that bridge to different degrees. A linear correlation between the FM–PM shift in the O 2p / TM 3d band-center separation and the shift in vacancy formation energy supports this mechanism.

Load-bearing premise

The paramagnetic state is represented by an average of only 20 collinear spin configurations with zero net total moment, and the paper provides no convergence test showing that this sample captures the true magnetic ensemble.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

Ferromagnetic-only computational screening of doped cobaltite cathodes can rank dopants incorrectly, because the paramagnetic state changes the ordering of vacancy formation energies for Mn, Fe, Ni, and Cu.
In the paramagnetic state, which is relevant at operating temperatures, vacancy formation energies are generally lower than in the ferromagnetic state, with the largest reduction (about 0.6 eV) in undoped LSC and 0.3–0.4 eV in Mn- and Fe-doped systems.
For Ni and Cu dopants, the nearest-neighbour vacancy formation energy is nearly unchanged between the two magnetic states, because these low-spin dopants already interrupt double exchange, while the 2NN vacancy is still lowered by about 0.2 eV.
Oxygen vacancies reduce the energy difference between the ferromagnetic and paramagnetic states, which links vacancy formation to the experimentally observed lowering of the magnetic ordering temperature.
The shift in the O 2p / TM 3d band-center separation between the two magnetic states correlates linearly with the shift in vacancy formation energy, providing a descriptor for which dopants will show strong magnetic-state effects.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

The paper implies but does not state that for Mn and Fe dopants, oxygen vacancies become easier to form at the high temperatures where the paramagnetic state prevails, which would make those dopants more favorable for fast ionic transport in operating fuel cells than ground-state screening would suggest.
A practical extension is to use the linear band-center/vacancy-energy correlation as a high-throughput screening criterion: estimate the FM–PM band-center shift from a cheap electronic-structure calculation to flag dopants whose vacancy behavior is strongly magnetic-state dependent.
By the same double-exchange logic, other low-spin B-site substituents beyond Ni and Cu should also mute the magnetic-state dependence of vacancy formation, so the need to model magnetic disorder may be weakest precisely for the dopants that most strongly suppress double exchange.

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Editorial analysis

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Desk Editor's Note

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Dear colleague,

The paper makes a clear, useful point: for doped La0.5Sr0.5CoO3, oxygen vacancy formation energies depend on the magnetic state in a dopant-specific way, and screening with only the ferromagnetic ground state can miss this. The systematic comparison of Mn, Fe, Ni, and Cu under FM and PM states goes beyond the earlier Fe-only study of Jia et al., and the treatment of Jahn-Teller distortions is careful. The double-exchange explanation for the dopant dependence is plausible and consistent with the computed densities of states.

The main soft spot is the paramagnetic state. The authors represent it with 20 collinear spin configurations, zero total moment, and no convergence check. For defect systems with small FM–PM energy differences (0.2–0.6 eV), a biased sample could shift or even reverse the reported trends. The stress-test note is on point here. A simple convergence test with, say, 30–50 configurations for one or two dopants would go a long way. Also, the spin configurations are not listed, so the PM average is not reproducible as reported.

The band-center correlation in Fig. 9 is a nice descriptive device, but calling it a "confirms" is an overreach. It is a 10-point linear fit that restates the FM–PM shifts; it does not independently validate the PM representation. The structure-property relationship it suggests is worth discussing, but the language should be tempered.

These are issues of evidence and presentation, not fundamental errors. The central argument—that magnetic disorder matters for defect energetics in cobaltites—holds up and is not circular: the vacancy formation energies are direct DFT outputs, and the band-center shifts are computed from pristine crystals. The paper is honest about its structural model and cites the relevant prior work, including the MSM validation.

For me, this is a paper that belongs in the literature after revision. I would send it to peer review and ask for a convergence check on the PM sampling, accession of the spin configurations or at least the statistical spread, and a softer interpretation of Fig. 9. The core finding is timely for anyone doing DFT-based screening of SOFC cathodes, and the paper deserves serious referee time.

Referee Report

3 major / 4 minor

Summary. The paper presents DFT+U calculations of oxygen vacancy formation energies in doped La0.5Sr0.5CoO3 (LSC) perovskite, comparing ferromagnetic (FM) and paramagnetic (PM) states. The PM state is modeled by averaging over 20 collinear spin configurations with zero total moment (MSM). The authors find that the vacancy formation energy depends on both the dopant (Mn, Fe, Ni, Cu) and the magnetic state, with FM-PM differences ranging from below 0.1 eV to about 0.6 eV. They attribute this magnetic-state dependence to the double exchange interaction and argue that screening based only on the FM ground state can yield misleading doping trends. A correlation between FM-PM shifts of the band-center separation and shifts of the vacancy formation energy is presented as support.

Significance. If the results hold, the work is significant for computational screening of perovskite oxide cathodes, since it challenges the common practice of evaluating defect energetics only in the magnetic ground state. The structural-distortion analysis is careful, the vacancy formation energies are direct DFT outputs, and the band-center analysis offers a potential descriptor. However, the central claim rests on a PM sampling approximation whose convergence is not demonstrated, and the correlation in Fig. 9 is overinterpreted. The study is therefore a useful contribution with a sound methodological core, but its quantitative conclusions need additional support.

major comments (3)

[§II.B, Figs. 2 and 6-7] The PM state is represented by averaging exactly 20 collinear spin configurations with zero total magnetic moment, but no convergence test is provided: there is no check that 20 configurations are sufficient for a 40-atom supercell containing a dopant and an oxygen vacancy, no estimate of the statistical spread of individual-configuration energies, and no comparison with an independent method such as DLM-CPA for this specific system. Since the reported FM-PM differences in oxygen vacancy formation energy are 0.2-0.6 eV for most cases and below 0.1 eV for Ni/Cu at the 1NN site, even a small sampling bias could change the ordering or the qualitative trend that drives the paper's central claim. Please add convergence tests (e.g., energy vs. number of configurations, standard deviation over the ensemble, or a DLM-CPA benchmark) for at least pristine LSC and one or two doped systems.
[§IV, Fig. 9] The statement that the linear relationship in Fig. 9 'confirms' the double-exchange hypothesis overstates the evidence. The figure contains 10 points derived from five compositions and two vacancy sites, but these points are not independent: both axes are computed from the same set of DFT calculations, and the band-center shifts are obtained from pristine crystals without vacancies. The correlation is suggestive but cannot by itself confirm a mechanistic explanation. Please rephrase this as a hypothesis and, if possible, provide additional validation (e.g., direct calculation of exchange interactions or a test on an additional dopant) and report error bars or scatter of the band-center values.
[§III.B, Fig. 6] Several of the FM-PM differences in vacancy formation energy are small (0.2-0.6 eV, and below 0.1 eV for Ni and Cu at the 1NN site) and are comparable to typical DFT numerical uncertainties. The paper reports total-energy convergence criteria but does not provide an uncertainty estimate for the averaged PM energy, nor a sensitivity analysis with respect to the Hubbard U parameters taken from Ref. [42]. Since the qualitative conclusion of a dopant-specific magnetic-state effect depends on these small differences, a sensitivity analysis or a discussion of numerical uncertainty is needed.

minor comments (4)

[Eq. (1)] The doping-energy formula appears to contain a sign error: the chemical potential term should be y(E_metal,M - E_metal,Co), not y(E_metal,M + E_metal,Co), since substituting one Co by M adds M and removes Co. With the plus sign the doping energy would be unphysically large. Please check and correct.
[Fig. 3 and §II.B] The axis label in Fig. 3 is missing the degree symbol ('B-O-B angle distortion ( )'), and in §II.B the phrase 'a certain mount' should be 'a certain number'.
[§III.C] The phrase 'the band center, as the famous effective electronic descriptor' is informal; consider replacing 'famous' with 'widely used'.
[Fig. 9] The deliberate omission of element labels in Fig. 9 makes it difficult to assess which points correspond to which dopants; please add labels or a corresponding table.

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No circularity found: the oxygen vacancy formation energies are direct DFT outputs, and the band-center correlation is an independent diagnostic rather than a fitted input.

full rationale

The central claim that FM and PM states give dopant-specific oxygen vacancy formation energies is computed directly from Eq. (2) as total-energy differences of independently relaxed DFT supercells; no parameter in that equation is fitted to the vacancy data it is used to explain. The PM representation via 20 collinear spin configurations (Sec. II.B) is a modeling approximation with a real convergence concern, which the paper does not address, but that is a robustness limitation, not a circular reduction: the FM-PM energy differences are direct DFT outputs, not re-expressions of the assumed spin sample. Figure 9 plots the band-center shift, computed from pristine vacancy-free pDOS in Sec. III.C, against the E_V shift from Sec. III.B; both are independent DFT observables, and the linear fit is used only as interpretive evidence for the double-exchange narrative, not as an input that forces the reported trends. The MSM method is cited to external references [32-35], and no load-bearing step reduces to a self-citation or to a uniqueness claim by the authors. The absence of a convergence test for the 20-configuration PM sample is explicitly acknowledged in the manuscript's methodology and is weighed here as a correctness risk, but it does not make the derivation circular.

Assumptions & free parameters 4 free parameters · 4 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The paper introduces no new physical entities. The key inputs from outside are the empirical Hubbard U values and the MSM sampling set. The central results depend on these choices and on the structural and magnetic modeling assumptions listed above.

free parameters (4)

Hubbard U for Co = 3.3 eV
Chosen from Ref [42]; controls the strength of on-site Coulomb interaction and affects the computed energetics and magnetic moments.
Hubbard U for Mn, Fe, Cu = 4.0 eV
Chosen from Ref [42] for each element; these values are empirical inputs that influence the electronic structure and vacancy formation energies.
Hubbard U for Ni = 6.4 eV
Chosen from Ref [42]; the larger U for Ni reflects its stronger correlation and affects the dopant's magnetic behavior.
Number of MSM spin configurations = 20
The paper states 'generating 20 distinct collinear spin configurations' without a convergence test; the paramagnetic average depends on this arbitrary number.

assumptions (4)

domain assumption DFT+U with PBE approximates the electronic structure of La0.5Sr0.5CoO3 accurately enough for qualitative defect energy trends.
Standard practice for correlated oxides, but the accuracy of PBE+U for these specific defect energetics is not benchmarked against experiment or higher-level theory in the paper.
ad hoc to paper The paramagnetic state is representable by an average of 20 collinear spin configurations with zero total magnetic moment (MSM).
Section II.B. This is the paper's central modeling choice; no convergence test is provided, and non-collinear fluctuations are neglected.
domain assumption A single ordered La/Sr configuration is representative of the disordered A-site cation arrangement.
Section II.A cites Refs [20,21] that different La/Sr configurations have close energies; the paper uses one ordered arrangement.
domain assumption The Jahn-Teller distorted pseudo-cubic structure is the correct structural reference for defect calculations.
Section III.A shows the cubic phase is a local maximum; the paper uses the distorted minima as the reference for all subsequent calculations.

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abstract

Oxygen vacancies are critical for determining the electrochemical performance of fast oxygen ion conductors. The perovskite La$_{0.5}$Sr$_{0.5}$CoO$_3$, known for its excellent mixed ionic-electronic conduction, has attracted significant attention due to its favorable vacancy characteristics. In this study, we employ first-principles calculations to systematically investigate the impact of 3$d$ transition-metal doping on the oxygen vacancy formation energies in the perovskite. Two magnetic states, namely the ferromagnetic and paramagnetic states, are considered in our models to capture the influence of magnetic effects on oxygen vacancy energetics. Our results reveal that the oxygen vacancy formation energies are strongly dependent on both the dopant species and the magnetic state. Notably, the magnetic states alter the vacancy formation energy in a dopant-specific manner due to double exchange interactions, indicating that relying solely on the ferromagnetic ground state may result in misleading trends in doping behavior. These findings emphasise the importance of accounting for magnetic effects when investigating oxygen vacancy properties in perovskite oxides.

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**Figure 2.** FIG. 2: Magnetic configurations of LSC: (a) the FM [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_2.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** FIG. 4: Energy analysis of vacancy-containing LSC [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_4.png] view at source ↗

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**Figure 6.** Figure 6: FIG. 6: Oxygen vacancy formation energy (a) at the 1NN [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_6.png]

**Figure 7.** Figure 7: FIG. 7: Energy difference between PM and FM states [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_7.png]

**Figure 8.** Figure 8: FIG. 8: Projected density of states for doped LSC of (a) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_8.png]

**Figure 9.** Figure 9: FIG. 9: Scatter plot of the energy difference between O [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_9.png]

**Figure 8.** Figure 8: In this figure, we provide data for two magnetic [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_8.png]

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