Eur. Phys. J. B 23, 455-461 (2001)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s100510170037

Electronic structure and magnetism of disordered bcc Fe alloys

¹ S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata 700091, India
² Department of Physics, Uppsala University, Uppsala 75121, Sweden

Corresponding author: ^a subhra@physics.rutgers.edu

Received: 10 April 2001
Revised: 15 August 2001
Published online: 15 October 2001

Abstract

We study the electronic structure and magnetic properties of disordered bcc Co_xFe, Cr_xFe and Mn_xFe alloys in their ferromagnetic phases using the Augmented Space Recursion (ASR) technique coupled with the tight-binding linearized muffin tin orbital (TB-LMTO) method. We calculate the density of states and magnetic moment of these alloys to show the variation upon alloying Fe with the other neighbouring 3d transition metals using arguments based on charge transfer, exchange splitting and hybridization effects.