Mechanism of magnetism in stacked nanographite with open shell electrons

Antiferromagnetism in stacked nanographite is investigated with using the Hubbard-type models. The A–B stacking or the stacking near to that of A–B type is favorable for the hexagonal nanographite with zigzag edges, in order that magnetism appears. Next, we find that the open shell electronic structure can be an origin of the decreasing magnetic moment with the decrease of the inter-graphene distance, as experiments on adsorption of molecules suggest.