Electronic Structure and Phase Transitions (G04)

• Subject Area: Experimental Condensed Matter Physics
• Term: from 2014 to 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 107745057

In intermetallic compounds, the realized materials properties are governed by the actual atomic arrangements. We will study the effect of disorder by correlating mainly neutron diffraction experiments with measurements of macroscopic parameters and derive pertinent microscopic models. This will be done specifically in Ni2Mn-based Heusler systems, which display functional potentials including, e.g., large ferromagnetic shape-memory and magnetocaloric effects as well as ferromagnetic half-metallicity.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 80: From Electronic Correlations to Functionality
• Applicant Institution: Universität Augsburg
• Co-Applicant Institution: Technische Universität München (TUM)
• Project Heads: Dr. Michael Leitner; Professor Dr. Winfried Petry, until 12/2017