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JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER
Volume 15, Issue 2, Pages 159-164Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/15/2/315
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A series of first-principles calculations were performed for ferromagnetic Ni2MnGa using density functional theory and PAW potentials. Theoretically, a tetragonal crystal structure homogeneous lattice-distortive. strain is stabilized around c/a = 0.94 with respect to the L2(1) structure when, in addition, modulation shuffles with a period of five atomic planes are taken into account. This is in agreement with the observed structures in experimental works. The modulation appears to be critically important for stability of the tetragonal structure with c/a < 1. Here, we report a new feature which is related to-the optimum amplitudes of the modulation in different atomic planes. Related to this are systematic changes in the minority spin density of states near the Fermi surface, like in the formalism of a pseudo-gap.
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