Markus Eisenbach (Oak Ridge National Lab)
Magnetic Materials at finite Temperatures: thermodynamics and combined spin and molecular dynamics derived from first principles calculations
We will present a unified approach to describe the combined behavior of the atomic and magnetic degrees of freedom in magnetic materials. Using Monte Carlo simulations directly combined with first principles the Curie temperature can be obtained ab initio in good agreement with experimental values. The large scale constrained first principles calculations have been used to construct effective potentials for both the atomic and magnetic degrees of freedom that allow the unified study of influence of phonon-magnon coupling on the thermodynamics and dynamics of magnetic systems. The MC calculations predict the specific heat of iron in near perfect agreement with experimental results from 300K to above Tc and allow the identification of the importance of the magnon-phonon interaction at the phase-transition. Further Molecular Dynamics and Spin Dynamics calculations elucidate the dynamics of this coupling and open the potential for quantitative and predictive descriptions of dynamic structure factors in magnetic materials using first principles derived simulations.
This Work is sponsored by the U.S Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Materials Sciences and Engineering Division, “Center for Defect Physics,” an Energy Frontier Research Center, and by the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research, This research used resources of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility at the ORNL, which is supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725.
References:
– M Eisenbach, D M Nicholson, A Rusanu, G Brown, J. Appl. Phys. 109 (2011), 07E138.
– J Yin, M Eisenbach, D M. Nicholson, A Rusanu, Phys. Rev. B 86 (2012), 214423.
– J Yin, M Eisenbach, D M. Nicholson, A Rusanu, J. Appl. Phys. 113 (2013), 17E112.
– D Perera, D P. Landau, D M. Nicholson, G. Malcolm Stocks, M Eisenbach, J Yin, G Brown, Journal of Applied Physics 115 (2014), 17D124.
-D Perera, D P Landau, D M Nicholson, G M Stocks, M Eisenbach, J Yin, and G Brown, J. Phys.: Conf. Series 487 (2014), 012007