title: Controlling magnetism of a complex metallic system using atomic individualism.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: The Ames Laboratory, US Department of Energy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011-3020, USA.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Mudryk
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Paudyal
authors.forename: V K
authors.initials: VK
authors.lastname: Pecharsky
authors.forename: K A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Gschneidner
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Misra
authors.forename: G J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Miller