A lattice Monte Carlo simulation of the FePt alloy using a first-principles renormalized four-body interaction

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 128, Issue 23, 2008, Pages

  Misumi, Yuji ^a   Masatsuji, Satoru ^a   Sahara, Ryoji ^b   Ishii, Soh ^a   Ohno, Kaoru ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOYS; ATOMIC PHYSICS; ATOMS; FLOW INTERACTIONS; IRON ALLOYS; LATTICE VIBRATIONS; LITHIUM BATTERIES; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; SOLID STATE PHYSICS; SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS (AIP); BODY INTERACTIONS; FCC LATTICES; FIRST-PRINCIPLES; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATIONS; LATTICE EFFECTS; LATTICE MONTE CARLO (LMC); LATTICE POINTS; LOCAL DISTORTIONS; MAGNETIC (CE); ORDER DISORDER PHASE TRANSITIONS; POTENTIAL RENORMALIZATION; RENORMALIZATION; SUBSTITUTIONAL ALLOYING; TRANSITION TEMPERATURES;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 47249140901     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2938181     Document Type: Article

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