Invar Behavior in Fe-Ni Alloys is Predominantly a Local Moment Effect Arising from the Magnetic Exchange Interactions Between High Moments

I argue that the main models that have been advanced to explain Invar behavior in Fe-Ni alloys (the original, classical, Invar system) can all be shown to be critically deficient, except one: The local moment frustration model of Rancourt and Dang ( Phys. Rev. B , 54 , 12225, 1996). The latter model...

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Published in:Phase transitions 2002-01, Vol.75 (1-2), p.201-209
Main Author: Rancourt, D.G.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anti-Invar
Fe-Ni
Invar
Low-moment
Magnetism
Magnetovolume
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Summary:I argue that the main models that have been advanced to explain Invar behavior in Fe-Ni alloys (the original, classical, Invar system) can all be shown to be critically deficient, except one: The local moment frustration model of Rancourt and Dang ( Phys. Rev. B , 54 , 12225, 1996). The latter model explains all the measured structural, magnetic, and magnetovolume features of the Fe-Ni alloys with 0-65 apc (atomic percent) Fe, based on the assumptions that these systems are predominantly high-moment in character at the temperatures of interest and that the Fe-Fe pairs have large inter-atomic separation dependencies of their magnetic exchange parameters. The large magnetovolume Fe-Fe couplings are understood (based on ab initio electronic structure calculations) as a precursor effect of the low-moment/high-moment (LM/HM) transition that has recently been observed to occur at larger Fe concentrations, as a continuous transition occurring in the range , 65-75 apc Fe (Lagarec, Ph.D. thesis, 2001).
ISSN:0141-1594
1029-0338
DOI:10.1080/01411590290023094