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Formation of -ordered - precipitates in ternary Cu-Ni-Al alloys modelled using an ab initio concentration wave theory and atomistic simulations
Christopher D. Woodgate, Hubert J. Naguszewski, Samuel L. Deacon +4
Precipitation-strengthened Cu-Ni-Al alloys are of interest for technological applications because coherent, -ordered - precipitates can…
Emergent B2 chemical orderings in the AlTiVNb and AlTiCrMo refractory high-entropy superalloys studied via first-principles theory and atomistic modelling
Christopher D. Woodgate, Hubert J. Naguszewski, David Redka +3
We study the thermodynamics and phase stability of the AlTiVNb and AlTiCrMo refractory high-entropy superalloys using a combination of \textit{ab initio} electronic structure theor…
Structure, short-range order, and phase stability of the AlCrFeCoNi high-entropy alloy: Insights from a perturbative, DFT-based analysis
Christopher D. Woodgate, George A. Marchant, Livia B. Pártay +1
We study the phase behaviour of the AlCrFeCoNi high-entropy alloy. Our approach is based on a perturbative analysis of the internal energy of the paramagnetic solid solution as…
First Principles Validation of Energy Barriers in NiAl
Adam Fisher, Julie B. Staunton, Huan Wu +1
Precipitates in Nickel-based superalloys form during heat treatment on a time scale inaccessible to direct molecular dynamics simulation, but could be studied using kinetic Monte C…
Competition between phase ordering and phase segregation in the TiNbMoTaW and TiVNbMoTaW refractory high-entropy alloys
Christopher D. Woodgate, Julie B. Staunton
Refractory high-entropy alloys are under consideration for applications where materials are subjected to high temperatures and levels of radiation, such as in the fusion power sect…
Integrated ab initio modelling of atomic order and magnetic anisotropy for rare-earth-free magnet design: effects of alloying additions in FeNi
Christopher D. Woodgate, Laura H. Lewis, Julie B. Staunton
We describe an integrated modelling approach to accelerate the search for novel, single-phase, multicomponent materials with high magnetocrystalline anisotropy (MCA). For a given s…
Origin of Incommensurate Magnetic Order in Rare-Earth Magnetic Weyl Semimetals
Juba Bouaziz, Gustav Bihlmayer, Christopher E. Patrick +2
We investigate rare-earth magnetic Weyl semimetals through first-principles simulations, analyzing the connection between incommensurate magnetic order and the presence of Weyl nod…
A collinear-spin machine learned interatomic potential for FeCrNi alloy
Lakshmi Shenoy, Christopher D. Woodgate, Julie B. Staunton +4
We have developed a new machine learned interatomic potential for the prototypical austenitic steel FeCrNi, using the Gaussian approximation potential (GAP) framework.…
Theory of defect-induced crystal field perturbations in rare earth magnets
Christopher E. Patrick, Yixuan Huang, Laura H. Lewis +1
We present a theory describing the single-ion anisotropy of rare earth (RE) magnets in the presence of point defects. Taking the RE-lean 1:12 magnet class as a prototype, we use fi…
Revisiting Néel 60 years on: the magnetic anisotropy of FeNi (tetrataenite)
Christopher D. Woodgate, Christopher E. Patrick, Laura H. Lewis +1
The magnetocrystalline anisotropy energy of atomically ordered FeNi (the meteoritic mineral tetrataenite) is studied within a first-principles electronic structure…
Interplay between magnetism and short-range order in medium- and high-entropy alloys: CrCoNi, CrFeCoNi, and CrMnFeCoNi
Christopher D. Woodgate, Daniel Hedlund, L. H. Lewis +1
The impact of magnetism on predicted atomic short-range order in three medium- and high-entropy alloys is studied using a first-principles, all-electron, Landau-type linear respons…
Quantification of electronic and magnetoelastic mechanisms of first-order magnetic phase transitions from first principles: application to caloric effects in La(FeSi)
Eduardo Mendive Tapia, Christopher E. Patrick, Tilmann Hickel +2
La(FeSi) and derived quaternary compounds are well-known for their giant, tunable, magneto- and barocaloric responses around a first-order paramagnetic-ferromagn…
Crucial role of Fe in determining the hard magnetic properties of NdFeB
Juba Bouaziz, Christopher E. Patrick, Julie B. Staunton
NdFeB's unsurpassed, hard magnetic properties for a wide range of temperatures result from a combination of a large volume magnetization from Fe and a strong single-ion…
Compositional phase stability in medium-entropy and high-entropy Cantor-Wu alloys from an ab initio all-electron, Landau-type theory and atomistic modelling
Christopher D. Woodgate, Julie B. Staunton
We describe implementation and analysis of a first-principles theory, derived in an earlier work, for the leading terms in an expansion of a Gibbs free energy of a multi-component…
Short-range order and compositional phase stability in refractory high-entropy alloys via first principles theory and atomistic modelling: NbMoTa, NbMoTaW and VNbMoTaW
Christopher D. Woodgate, Julie B. Staunton
Using an all-electron, first principles, Landau-type theory, we study the nature of short-range order and compositional phase stability in equiatomic refractory high entropy alloys…
Fermi-surface origin of skyrmion lattices in centrosymmetric rare-earth intermetallics
Juba Bouaziz, Eduardo Mendive-Tapia, Stefan Blügel +1
We show from first-principles that barrel-shaped structures within the Fermi surface of the centrosymmetric intermetallic compounds GdRuSi and GdPdSi give rise to F…
Real-space visualization of short-range antiferromagnetic correlations in a magnetically enhanced thermoelectric
Raju Baral, Jacob Christensen, Parker Hamilton +10
Short-range magnetic correlations can significantly increase the thermopower of magnetic semiconductors, representing a noteworthy development in the decades-long effort to develop…
Short period magnetization texture of B20-MnGe explained by thermally fluctuating local moments
Eduardo Mendive-Tapia, Manuel dos Santos Dias, Sergii Grytsiuk +3
B20-type compounds, such as MnSi and FeGe, host helimagnetic and skyrmion phases at the mesoscale, which are canonically explained by the combination of ferromagnetic isotropic int…
Spin orientation and magnetostriction of TbDyFe from first principles
Christopher E. Patrick, George A. Marchant, Julie B. Staunton
The optimal amount of dysprosium in the highly magnetostrictive rare-earth compounds TbDyFe for room temperature applications has long been known to be =0.73 (Te…
Caloric effects around phase transitions in magnetic materials described by ab initio theory: The electronic glue and fluctuating local moments
Eduardo Mendive-Tapia, Julie B. Staunton
We describe magneto-, baro- and elastocaloric effects (MCEs, BCEs and eCEs) in materials which possess both discontinuous (first-order) and continuous (second-order) magnetic phase…
First-order ferromagnetic transitions of lanthanide local moments in divalent compounds: An itinerant electron positive feedback mechanism and Fermi surface topological change
Eduardo Mendive-Tapia, Durga Paudyal, Leon Petit +1
Around discontinuous (first-order) magnetic phase transitions the strong caloric response of materials to the application of small fields is widely studied for the development of s…
Temperature-dependent magnetocrystalline anisotropy of rare earth/transition metal permanent magnets from first principles: The light RCo (R=Y, La-Gd) intermetallics
Christopher E. Patrick, Julie B. Staunton
Computational design of more efficient rare earth/transition metal (RE-TM) permanent magnets requires accurately calculating the magnetocrystalline anisotropy (MCA) at finite tempe…
Crystal field coefficients for yttrium analogues of rare-earth/transition-metal magnets using density-functional theory in the projector-augmented wave formalism
Christopher E. Patrick, Julie B. Staunton
We present a method of calculating crystal field coefficients of rare-earth/transition-metal (RE-TM) magnets within density-functional theory (DFT). The principal idea of the metho…
Structural and magnetic properties of GdCoNi
Amy L. Tedstone, Christopher E. Patrick, Santosh Kumar +4
GdCo may be considered as two sublattices - one of Gd and one of Co - whose magnetizations are in antiparallel alignment, forming a ferrimagnet. Substitution of nickel in the c…