Nature Communications (Jul 2017)

Local magnetic moments in iron and nickel at ambient and Earth’s core conditions

  • A. Hausoel,
  • M. Karolak,
  • E. Şaşιoğlu,
  • A. Lichtenstein,
  • K. Held,
  • A. Katanin,
  • A. Toschi,
  • G. Sangiovanni

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms16062
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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A first principles understanding of the origins of the Earth's magnetic field requires the study of iron and nickel at high temperatures and pressures. Here, the authors find anomalies in the electronic properties of nickel and iron-nickel alloys, which may be important for the physics of geomagnetism.