First-principles calculation of the instability leading to giant inverse magnetocaloric efects

Denis Comtesse, Markus E. Gruner, Vladimir V. Sokolovskiy +10

The structural and magnetic properties of functional Ni-Mn-Z (Z = Ga, In, Sn) Heusler alloys are studied by first-principles and Monte Carlo methods. The \textit{ab initio} calcula…