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Fe-site-resolved anisotropy energies in NdFeB for atomistic spin dynamics
Veronica T. C. Lai, Christopher E. Patrick
Nd-Fe-B magnets are the most widely used high performance magnets in the world today, and remain the subject of both experimental and computational research aimed at understanding…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Accurate ground state- and quasiparticle energies: beyond the RPA and GW methods with adiabatic exchange-correlation kernels
Thomas Olsen, Christopher E. Patrick, Jefferson E. Bates +2
We review the theory and application of adiabatic exchange-correlation (xc-) kernels for ab initio calculations of ground state energies and quasiparticle excitations within the fr…
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…
First-principles calculations of the magnetocrystalline anisotropy of the prototype 2:17 cell boundary phase Y(CoFeCu)
Christopher E. Patrick, Munehisa Matsumoto, Julie B. Staunton
We present a computational study of the compound Y(CoFeCu) for 0 . This compound was chosen as a prototype for investigating the cell bound…
Field-induced canting of magnetic moments in GdCo5 at finite temperature: first-principles calculations and high-field measurements
Christopher E. Patrick, Santosh Kumar, Kathrin Götze +7
We present calculations and experimental measurements of the temperature-dependent magnetization of a single crystal of GdCo in magnetic fields of order 60 T. At zero temperatu…
Rare-earth/transition-metal magnets at finite temperature: Self-interaction-corrected relativistic density functional theory in the disordered local moment picture
Christopher E. Patrick, Julie B. Staunton
Atomic-scale computational modeling of technologically relevant permanent magnetic materials faces two key challenges. First, a material's magnetic properties depend sensitively on…
Calculating the Magnetic Anisotropy of Rare-Earth-Transition-Metal Ferrimagnets
Christopher E. Patrick, Santosh Kumar, Geetha Balakrishnan +4
Magnetocrystalline anisotropy, the microscopic origin of permanent magnetism, is often explained in terms of ferromagnets. However, the best performing permanent magnets based on r…
Simple vertex correction improves GW band energies of bulk and two-dimensional crystals
Per S. Schmidt, Christopher E. Patrick, Kristian S. Thygesen
The GW self-energy method has long been recognized as the gold standard for quasiparticle (QP) calculations of solids in spite of the fact that the neglect of vertex corrections an…
Rare-earth/transition-metal magnetic interactions in pristine and (Ni,Fe)-doped YCo5 and GdCo5
Christopher E. Patrick, Santosh Kumar, Geetha Balakrishnan +5
We present an investigation into the intrinsic magnetic properties of the compounds YCo5 and GdCo5, members of the RETM5 class of permanent magnets (RE = rare earth, TM = transitio…
Quantitative analysis of valence photoemission spectra and quasiparticle excitations at chromophore-semiconductor interfaces
Christopher E. Patrick, Feliciano Giustino
Investigating quasiparticle excitations of molecules on surfaces through photoemission spectroscopy forms a major part of nanotechnology research. Resolving spectral features at th…
Structure of a Water Monolayer on the Anatase TiO(101) Surface
Christopher E. Patrick, Feliciano Giustino
Titanium dioxide (TiO) plays a central role in the study of artificial photosynthesis, owing to its ability to perform photocatalytic water splitting. Despite over four decades…
Unified theory of electron-phonon renormalization and phonon-assisted optical absorption
Christopher E. Patrick, Feliciano Giustino
We present a theory of electronic excitation energies and optical absorption spectra which incorporates energy-level renormalization and phonon-assisted optical absorption within a…
Hubbard- corrected Hamiltonians for non-self-consistent random-phase approximation total-energy calculations: A study of ZnS, TiO, and NiO
Christopher E. Patrick, Kristian S. Thygesen
In non-self-consistent calculations of the total energy within the random-phase approximation (RPA) for electronic correlation, it is necessary to choose a single-particle Hamilton…
Stochastic approach to phonon-assisted optical absorption
Marios Zacharias, Christopher E. Patrick, Feliciano Giustino
We develop a first-principles theory of phonon-assisted optical absorption in semiconductors and insulators which incorporates the temperature dependence of the electronic structur…
Anharmonic stabilization and band gap renormalization in the perovskite CsSnI
Christopher E. Patrick, Karsten W. Jacobsen, Kristian S. Thygesen
Amongst the X(Sn,Pb)Y perovskites currently under scrutiny for their photovoltaic applications, the cubic B- phase of CsSnI is arguably the best characterized experiment…
Adiabatic-connection fluctuation-dissipation DFT for the structural properties of solids-the renormalized ALDA and electron gas kernels
Christopher E. Patrick, Kristian S. Thygesen
We present calculations of the correlation energies of crystalline solids and isolated systems within the adiabatic-connection fluctuation-dissipation formulation of density-functi…
GW quasiparticle band structures of stibnite, antimonselite, bismuthinite, and guanajuatite
Marina R. Filip, Christopher E. Patrick, Feliciano Giustino
We present first-principles calculations of the quasiparticle band structures of four isostructural semiconducting metal chalcogenides AB (with A = Sb, Bi and B = S, Se) of…