Magnetic study of intermetallic Ce1-xTbxMn2Ge2(0 ≤ x ≤ 1) compounds

Magnetic circular dichroism in the soft-x-ray absorption spectra of Mn-based magnetic intermetallic compounds

We have investigated the magnetic electronic structures of PtMnSb, NiMnSb, Ni2MnSb,MnSb, MnAlGe, and Mn2Sb by soft-x-ray absorption spectroscopy ~XAS! and magnetic circular dichroism ~MCD! measurements in the Mn 2p core absorption region. Different degrees of the electron itinerancy of the Mn 3d states are discussed. The large orbital angular momentum of the Mn 3d electrons is revealed for MnSb...

Magnetic anisotropy in the cubic Laves REFe2 intermetallic compounds

In the past, the Callen–Callen (1965 Phys. Rev. 139 A455–71; 1966 J. Phys. Chem. Solids 27 1271–85) model has been highly successful in explaining the origin and temperature dependence of the magneto-crystalline anisotropy in many magnetic compounds. Yet, despite their high ordering temperatures of ∼650 K, the Callen–Callen model has proved insufficient for the REFe2 compounds. In this paper, w...

Hydrogen in R2Fe17 intermetallic compounds: Structural, thermodynamic, and magnetic properties

Computational Study of Y NMR Shielding in Intermetallic Yttrium Compounds

Density functional theory (DFT) calculations of the magnetic shielding for solid state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) provide an important contribution for the understanding of experimentally observed signals. In this work, we present calculations of the Y NMR shielding in intermetallic compounds (YMg, YT, YTX, YT2X, YT2X2, Y2TB6, and Y2TSi3 where T represents various transition metals and X ...

Prediction of stable insulating intermetallic compounds

We explore the stability of structure exhibiting hybridization gaps across a broad range of binary and ternary intermetallic compositions by means of band structure and total energy calculations. This search reveals previously unknown metal-based insulators, some with large gaps exceeding 1 eV, such as Al2Fe and Al4IrRe. We confirm large gaps using a hybrid density functional including exact ex...