Controlling magnetism of a complex metallic system using atomic individualism.
When the complexity of a metallic compound reaches a certain level, a specific location in the structure may be critically responsible for a given fundamental property of a material while other locations may not play as much of a role in determining such a property. The first-principles theory has pinpointed a critical location in the framework of a complex intermetallic compound--Gd(5)Ge(4)--that resulted in a controlled alteration of the magnetism of this compound using precise chemical tools.
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The Ames Laboratory, US Department of Energy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011-3020, USA.
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Pecharsky
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Gschneidner
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Miller
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