Exchange interactions and critical temperature of bulk and thin films of MnSi: A density functional theory study

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Hortamani, Mahboubeh ^a,b   Sandratskii, Leonid ^b   Kratzer, Peter ^a,c   Mertig, Ingrid ^b,d   Scheffler, Matthias ^a  

^a FRITZ HABER INSTITUT DER MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MICROSTRUCTURE PHYSICS   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^d MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

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EID: 51749095240     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.78.104402     Document Type: Article

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