Magnetic refrigeration relies on a substantial entropy change in a magnetocaloric material
when a magnetic field is applied. Such entropy changes are present at first‐order …

Ferromagnetic shape memory alloys (FSMA) constitute a subgroup of shape memory alloys
(SMA) that also exhibit a ferromagnetic behavior. Due to the unique combination of large …

Several classes of materials manifest displacive phase transitions, including shape memory
alloys, many electronically correlated materials, superconductors, and ferroelectrics. Each of …

An ab initio based framework for quantitatively assessing the phonon contribution due to
magnon-phonon interactions and lattice expansion is developed. The theoretical results for …

In this review, we consider state-of-the-art density functional theory (DFT) investigations of
strongly correlated systems performed with the meta-generalized gradient approximation …

We have performed a combined experimental and theoretical investigation of the vibrational
properties of Ni 2 Mn Sn Heusler alloys. Sn-partial vibrational density of states (VDOS) of Sn …

Despite the importance of martensitic transformations of Ni-Mn-Ga Heusler alloys for their
magnetocaloric and shape-memory properties, the martensitic part of their phase diagrams …

Ferroic materials on the verge of forming ferroic glasses exhibit heightened functionality that
is often attributed to competing long-and short-range correlations. However, the physics …

The influence of Co and Cu doping on Ni-Mn-Ga Heusler alloy is investigated using the first-
principles exact muffin-tin orbital method in combination with the coherent-potential …

Heusler alloys exhibiting magnetic and martensitic transitions enable applications like
magnetocaloric refrigeration and actuation based on the magnetic shape memory effect …