Large magnetocaloric effects in magnetic intermetallics: First-principles and Monte Carlo studies Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • Owned by the authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2015. We have performed ab initio electronic structure calculations and Monte Carlo simulations of frustrated ferroic materials where complex magnetic configurations and chemical disorder lead to rich phase diagrams. With lowering of temperature, we find a ferromagnetic phase which transforms to an antiferromagnetic phase at the magnetostructural (martensitic) phase transition and to a cluster spin glass at still lower temperatures. The Heusler alloys Ni-(Co)-Mn-(Cr)-(Ga, Al, In, Sn, Sb) are of particular interest because of their large inverse magnetocaloric effect associated with the magnetostructural transition and the influence of Co/Cr doping. Besides spin glass features, strain glass behavior has been observed in Ni-Co-Mn-In. The numerical simulations allow a complete characterization of the frustrated ferroic materials including the Fe-Rh-Pd alloys.

published proceedings

  • ESOMAT 2015 - 10TH EUROPEAN SYMPOSIUM ON MARTENSITIC TRANSFORMATIONS

author list (cited authors)

  • Entel, P., Gruner, M. E., Ogura, M., Sokolovskiy, V. V., Buchelnikov, V. D., Gruenebohm, A., ... Cakir, A.

citation count

  • 2

complete list of authors

  • Entel, Peter||Gruner, Markus E||Ogura, Masako||Sokolovskiy, Vladimir V||Buchelnikov, Vasiliy D||Gruenebohm, Anna||Arroyave, Raymundo||Uebayashi, Kazuhiko||Singh, Navdeep||Talapatra, Anjana||Thien, Duong||Acet, Mehmet||Cakir, Asli

editor list (cited editors)

  • Schryvers, N., & Van Humbeeck, J.

publication date

  • January 2015