Cluster Model of Liquid or Amorphous Metal. The Quantum-Statistical Theory. Electrical and Magnetic Properties
O. I. Mitsek, V. M. Pushkar
G.V. Kurdyumov Institute for Metal Physics, NAS of Ukraine, 36 Academician Vernadsky Blvd., UA-03142 Kyiv, Ukraine
Received: 22.04.2014; final version - 06.11.2014. Download: PDF
Magnetoelectric properties of Fe-based amorphous metals (AM) are calculated within both the cluster (Kj) model and the many-electron operator spinors representation. AM are modified by the chemical-bond fluctuations (CBF) and microdiffusion. The wave function of Fe ion consists of wave functions of high-spin (HS, ξ3), low-spin (LS, ξ1), and band (fr) states at the lattice site r. Their amplitudes ξj(T, B) depend on temperature T and magnetic field B. As postulated by the Fe—B example, the ferromagnetic clusters of α-Fe interact (A31>0) through the LS ions within the hj holes. The Curie temperature Tc(ξj) is lowered owing to A31 at the AFM exchange with A11<0 for hj. Ferromagnon exchange hardness, D(T,ξj), depends on the CBF through ξj(T). The AFM phase is stable, if |A11|>A33, and it has two antiferromagnon branches: Ea∝k, E0≅A31 for quasi-momentum k≪1. Cr addition also stabilizes AFM phase owing to the Cr—Cr exchange (Avv<0). Probability of metamagnetic (MM) AFM → FM transition is increased by microdiffusion. The number of the nearest Cr—Cr neighbours within the hj holes is decreasing with the T growing, decreasing Avv(T) at T \rightarrow T_{MM} — 0. The MM transitions either at T_{MM} or in the B_{MM}(T) field at T < T_{MM} are accompanied by giant magnetoresistance with \Delta R \propto \xi_1^2(T)s_T^2(B). Mean spin for LS ion is a part of ‘effective mass defect’ \Delta m^{*}(T, B) at B \rightarrow B_{MM}. The FM effects such as ferromagnetic anisotropy (FMA) and magnetostriction (FMS) are caused by the LS-Fe—B^{+} spin—orbit coupling in condition of deformation u_{ij}. Deformation u_{ij} induces FMA (K_u \ne 0) in the process of AM-ribbon fabrication or after annealing. The curve of magnetic susceptibility \chi(B) depends on K_u and K_1 within the cluster.
Key words: amorphous ferromagnetic or antiferromagnetic, clusters, magnons, magnetic anisotropy, magnetostriction, giant magnetoresistance, exchange, chemical-bond fluctuations, many-electron operator spinors.
URL: http://mfint.imp.kiev.ua/en/abstract/v37/i01/0013.html
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15407/mfint.37.01.0013
PACS: 71.10.Fd, 72.10.Di, 72.15.Cz, 75.30.Kz, 75.30.Mb, 75.47.-m, 75.50.Kj
Citation: O. I. Mitsek and V. M. Pushkar, Cluster Model of Liquid or Amorphous Metal. The Quantum-Statistical Theory. Electrical and Magnetic Properties, Metallofiz. Noveishie Tekhnol., 37, No. 1: 13—36 (2015) (in Russian)