Magnetic properties of doped GdI<Subscript>2</Subscript>

Motivated by the recent experimental studies on layered ferromagnetic metallic system GdI<Subscript>2</Subscript>  and its doped variant GdI<Subscript>2</Subscript>H<Subscript>x</Subscript> we develop a model to understand their ground state magnetic phase diagram. Based on first principle electronic structure calculations we write down a phenomenological model and solve it under certain approximations to obtain the ground state energy. In the process we work out the phase diagram of the correlated double exchange model on a triangular lattice for the specific band structure at hand. Copyright EDP Sciences/Società Italiana di Fisica/Springer-Verlag 2006