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Group of studies of pressure effects on magnetic properties

 

Head of group  Svechkarev I.V. e-mail:svechkarev@ilt.kharkov.ua

Doctors of Sciences,  Professor

Experimentally there was observed the general trend for increase of the exchange-correlation coupling between the conduction electrons in metals with decreasing of the atomic volume.

A large magnitude of the magnetovolume effect was observed in Ce and Yb based compounds in the intermediate valence state in the vicinity of a half-integer valence values.

Studies of non-collinear magnetic structures.

Identification of magnetic field induced structural phase transitions in manganese oxides.

Detection of giant diamagnetic peculiarities in orbital susceptibility of metals and intermetallic compounds under electronic topological transitions in band structure.

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Head of group Pluzhnikov V.B. e-mail:pluzhnikov@ilt.kharkov.ua

Candidates of Sciences (Ph.D.),  Senior researcher.

Detection and investigation of the de Haas - van Alphen effect in intermetallic transition metal compounds МеВ₂, and in magnetically ordered rare-earth compounds RB₁₂ и RGa₃, the later ones are also studied under pressure up to 6000 atm.

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Group of theoretical studies of electronic structure and magnetic properties

Head of group Grechnev G.E. e-mail: grechnev@ilt.kharkov.ua

Doctors of Sciences,  Senior researcher

Giant orbital diamagnetism was discovered in metals and compounds, related to topological FS transitions.

Anisotropic magnetic susceptibility of HCP transition metals was calculated ab initio.

Theoretically studied anisotropic magnetic properties of HCP iron in the Earth inner core, and its possible relation to the seismic anisotropy of Earth.

Theoretical investigations of electronic structure, stability, magnetic and electro-chemical properties of potential lithium batteries based on Mn oxides.

Analysis of elastic properties of super hard materials, such as transition metals dioxides and dodecaborides.

The study of nature of strong magnetovolume effects in highly enhanced itinerant paramagnets and weak ferromagnets, based on 3d-elements, rare-earths and actinides.

Detailed calculations of electronic structures, elastic and magnetic properties of rare-earth hexaborides and dodecaborides have been performed.

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Principal research group of Academician V. V. Eremenko

Studies of structures and magnetoelastic properties of low-dimensional systems in the region of low temperature phase transitions 

Head of group Sirenko V.A. e-mail:sirenko@ilt.kharkov.ua

Doctors of Sciences,  Professor.

Identification and investigation of quantum magnetization and magnetostriction oscillations in the mixed state of superconductors.

Revealing of the twining structure appearance under formation of the antiferromagnetic dielectric phase in  Nd_0.5Sr_0.5MnO₃ manganite.

Detection and explanation of the negative thermal expansion in EuBaCuO compounds along the C crystal axis, substantially below the Debye temperature.

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