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PHASE TRANSITIONS
Volume 78, Issue 1-3, Pages 259-266Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/01411590412331316537
Keywords
heusler alloys; modulated structures; density functional calculations
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The different crystal structures of ferromagnetic Ni2MnGa have been calculated using density functional theory (DFT) with special emphasis on the modulated structures 10M and 14M. These are important for understanding the stability of Ni2MnGa martensites and their functionality as shape-memory materials. The modulated structures have been optimized in the calculations and their properties are discussed in relation to the structures without modulation. The occurrence of the modulated structures is related to the soft TA(2) phonon mode observed in Ni2MnGa. The latter is related to the specific nesting behaviour of the Fermi surface in Ni2MnGa. Particular shapes of the modulated structures are stabilized by the covalent interaction mediated by the p-orbitals of Ga and d-orbitals of Ni. The role of this interaction becomes clear when considering the phonon dispersion spectrum of Ni2MnGa, where characteristic anomalies occur in the coupling of acoustical vibrational modes and the optical modes of Ni.
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