Magnetic order and phase diagram of magnetic alloy system: MgxNi1–xO alloy

The antiferromagnetic phase diagram of MgxNi1−xO alloy was reexamined theoretically by multicomponent cluster expansion method. It predicts antiferromagnetic state in the alloy with high Mg content, instead of a mixture of antiferromagnetic and paramagnetic states, which was deduced previously from neutron diffraction results. The theoretically found intermediate antiferromagnetic ground states at Mg contents of xMg = 0.25 and 0.75 exhibit very low neutron diffraction intensities, which leads to confusion with paramagnetic state. Our approach here reduced remarkably the computation time in searching the intermediate ground states as well as calculating the magnetic phase diagram.

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