Modeling of magnetic and chemical ordering in binary alloys

Abstract
The equilibrium properties of a model fcc binary alloy with two magnetic components are investigated using the tetrahedron approximation of the cluster-variation method. Temperature-composition phase diagrams are calculated for ordering alloys with both ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic nearest-neighbor interactions. The interplay between magnetic and chemical long-range order is pronounced, affecting both the equilibrium phase diagram and the magnetic structure of the ordered states. The effect of chemical short-range order on the magnetic transitions is also analyzed.