Origin of magnetic frustrations in Fe-Ni Invar alloys

• Pair exchange parameters J(ij) of the classical Heisenberg Hamiltonian for magnetic interactions in the archetypical Invar system, face centered cubic (fcc) Fe-Ni alloys, are calculated from the first principles. The magnetic structure of Fe-Ni alloys in the region of volumes and electron concentrations related to the Invar effect is highly frustrated. However, the origin of such a frustration in concentrated alloys and in the pure fcc Fe are different. While in Fe it is due to the long-range oscillating J(ij), in alloys with high Ni concentration it is mainly the consequence of a huge dispersion of the nearest-neighbor exchange parameters, caused by the local environment effects.

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spin dynamics

exchange interactions

ferromagnetic metals

iron

temperature

transition

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