磁矩
凝聚态物理
金属间化合物
磁化
三元运算
反向
材料科学
放松(心理学)
相(物质)
晶界
物理
磁场
量子力学
几何学
微观结构
合金
程序设计语言
冶金
复合材料
社会心理学
计算机科学
数学
心理学
作者
Daniel F. Urban,Wolfgang Körner,Christian Elsässer
出处
期刊:Physical review
日期:2023-07-18
卷期号:108 (2)
标识
DOI:10.1103/physrevb.108.024415
摘要
We investigate grain boundaries (GBs) in the cubic inverse Heusler phase ${\mathrm{Fe}}_{2}\mathrm{CoGa}$ by means of first-principles calculations based on density functional theory. Besides the energetic stability, the analysis focuses on the magnetic properties of a set of 16 GB structures in this intermetallic phase. We determine the integrated excess magnetization across the GB and analyze it in terms of the projected local magnetic moments of the atoms and their local Voronoi volumes. The results are systematically compared to those of corresponding GBs in body-centered-cubic (bcc) Fe. The studied GBs in ${\mathrm{Fe}}_{2}\mathrm{CoGa}$ may have a considerably increased magnetization at the GB, up to more than twice as much as in bcc Fe, depending on the GB type, while geometrical quantities such as GB widening or local GB excess volume distributions are similar for both phases. We explain this difference by the higher flexibility of the ternary ${\mathrm{Fe}}_{2}\mathrm{CoGa}$ phase in compensating the disturbance of a crystal defect by structural relaxation. The GB structures therefore have a lower energy accompanied by increased local magnetic moments of the Co and half of the Fe atoms within a distance of a few $\text{\AA{}}$ around the GB plane.
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