First principles calculations of the structural, electronic, magnetic, and thermodynamic properties of the Nd2MgGe2 and Gd2MgGe2 intermetallic compounds

S. Menouer; O. Miloud Abid; A. Benzair; A. Yakoubi; H. Khachai; Udo Schwingenschlögl

doi:10.1038/s41598-021-89042-5

First principles calculations of the structural, electronic, magnetic, and thermodynamic properties of the Nd2MgGe2 and Gd2MgGe2 intermetallic compounds

S. Menouer, O. Miloud Abid, A. Benzair, A. Yakoubi, H. Khachai, Udo Schwingenschlögl

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AbstractIn recent years the intermetallic ternary RE2MgGe2 (RE = rare earth) compounds attract interest in a variety of technological areas. We therefore investigate in the present work the structural, electronic, magnetic, and thermodynamic properties of Nd2MgGe2 and Gd2MgGe2. Spin–orbit coupling is found to play an essential role in realizing the antiferromagnetic ground state observed in experiments. Both materials show metallicity and application of a Debye-Slater model demonstrates low thermal conductivity and little effects of the RE atom on the thermodynamic behavior.

Original language	English (US)
Journal	Scientific Reports
Volume	11
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-89042-5
State	Published - May 25 2021

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First principles calculations of the structural, electronic, magnetic, and thermodynamic properties of the Nd2MgGe2 and Gd2MgGe2 intermetallic compounds

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