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The Mn effect on magnetic structure of FeMn-B amorphous metals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Yang Wang
Affiliation:
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
D. M. C. Nicholson
Affiliation:
Computational Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831
M. Widom
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
M. Fuentes-Cabrera
Affiliation:
Computational Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
M. Mihalkovic
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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Abstract

Fe-rich Fe-B amorphous metals exhibit approximately collinear magnetic structure. When a certain amount of Fe atoms are replaced with Mn, the magnetic structure of the alloys is found to become non-collinear. We performed electronic structure calculations using the locally self-consistent multiple scattering (LSMS) method for supercell samples generated by ab initio molecular dynamics simulation using the Vienna Ab-initio Simulation Package (VASP). We present the distribution of moment sizes and angular distributions in the FeMn-B amorphous metal samples. We discuss the Mn effect on the magnetic structure of the alloys.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2004

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