U.S.-Austria Cooperative Research on the Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Quasicrystalline and Amorphous Alloys

该奖项支持教授S.S. Jaswal和D. J. 内布拉斯加大学的Sellmyer合作 与J>rgen教授一起研究凝聚态物理 维也纳技术大学的哈夫纳说。 他们的 两个研究小组对金属有着共同的兴趣， 眼镜，并提出共同努力，在一个研究 非晶和准晶过渡金属合金。 该合作将汇集理论上的 奥地利集团在原子结构方面的专门知识， 液态和非晶态金属与实验和 美国专家组的理论专长 电子结构和磁性。在 此外，欧洲其他几个研究小组和 美国将参与合作， 特别需要的才能。 至少有一个年轻的美国人。 科学家，可能在博士后水平，将是 参与合作。 该项目涉及该领域的主流问题， 的磁性材料，并侧重于一些特定的 积极、重要和有益的主题。 的 理论与实验相结合， 有助于更好地了解短距离 3d-5d跃迁的有序性和电子性质 金属眼镜 准晶体比 理论上很难研究，因为他们的非- 周期性长程有序 尽管如此， 将无定形系统的理论扩展到 简单金属准晶的性质 很有可能提供有价值的新见解。

This award supports Professors S.S. Jaswal and D. J. Sellmyer of the University of Nebraska to collaborate in condensed matter physics with Professor J>rgen Hafner of the Technical University of Vienna. Their two research groups share an interest in metallic glasses and propose to work together in a study of amorphous and quasicrystalline transition-metal alloys. The collaboration will bring together the theoretical expertise of the Austrian group in atomic structure of liquid and amorphous metals with the experimental and theoretical expertise of the U.S. group in the electronic structure and magnetic properties. In addition, several other research groups in Europe and the U.S. will be brought into the collaboration for particular necessary talents. At least one young U.S. scientist, probably on the postdoctoral level, will be involved in the collaboration. This project addresses mainstream issues in the field of magnetic materials, and focuses on some particular active, important and rewarding topics. The combination of theoretical and experimental work should contribute to a better understanding of the short-range order and electronic properties of 3d-5d transition metal glasses. The quasicrystals are much more difficult to study theoretically because of their non- periodic long-range order. Still, this effort to extend the theory on amorphous systems to the properties of quasicrystals made up of simple metals has a good chance of providing valuable new insights.