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Session N11: Structural and Magnetic Phase Transitions

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Sponsoring Units: DCMP
Chair: Craig Fennie, Argonne National Laboratory
Room: Colorado Convention Center Korbel 1F


Wednesday, March 7, 2007
8:00AM - 8:12AM

N11.00001: Ti-V alloy phase diagram: DFT-based cluster approach
Michael R. Fellinger , John W. Wilkins , Dallas R. Trinkle

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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
8:12AM - 8:24AM

N11.00002: Phase Transition to Modulated Cubic Phase in AuZn alloy
S. M. Shapiro , J. C. Lashley , W. Ratcliff , D. J. Thoma , J. L. Smith

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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
8:24AM - 8:36AM

N11.00003: Structural Studies on First-Order Phase Transitions inRPd$_{2}$Ga$_{2}$
Robin Macaluso , L. Chapon , E. Goremychkin , R. Osborn , J. Mitchell , B. Rainford

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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
8:36AM - 8:48AM

N11.00004: High pressure phases of alkali ternary borohydrides
Ravhi Kumar , Andrew Cornelius

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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
8:48AM - 9:00AM

N11.00005: First-principles study of the Jahn-Teller distortion in transition metal dihydrides.
Ramiro Quijano , Romeo de Coss

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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
9:00AM - 9:12AM

N11.00006: Phonon-based Mechanisms for Structural Transformations in Pu
Turab Lookman , Avadh Saxena , Robert Albers

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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
9:12AM - 9:24AM

N11.00007: Classical and quantum formalism of mode-based atomic-scale descriptions of lattice distortions
K.H. Ahn , Jichan Moon

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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
9:24AM - 9:36AM

N11.00008: Homogeneous nucleation of Lennard-Jones liquids
Hui Wang , Harvey Gould , W. Klein

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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
9:36AM - 9:48AM

N11.00009: Time-domain thermoreflectance of FeRh across magnetic/structural phase transition
D.A. Walko , J. Wang , D.G. Cahill , J.-U. Thiele , E.E. Fullerton

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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
9:48AM - 10:00AM

N11.00010: Thermodynamic and transport anisotropic properties of RVSb3 crystals
Athena S. Sefat , Sergey L. Bud'ko , Paul C. Canfield

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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
10:00AM - 10:12AM

N11.00011: X-ray resonant magnetic scattering study of the spin-flop transition in Gd$_5$Ge$_4$
Lizhi Tan , Shibabrata Nandi , Andreas Kreyssig , Shuang Jia , Alan Goldman , Robert McQueeney , Paul Canfield , Jonathan Lang , Zahirul Islam , Thomas Lograsso , Deborah Schlagel , Vitalij Pecharsky , Karl Gschneidner

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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
10:12AM - 10:24AM

N11.00012: Pressure-Dependent Magnetization Studies of Two Rare Earth-Based Intermetallic Systems
R.P. Guertin , E.S. Choi , B. Andraka , C.R. Rotundu , W. McCallum , Y. Janssen

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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
10:24AM - 10:36AM

N11.00013: The equivalency between hydrostatic pressure and Si doping in the giant magnetocaloric compound Gd$_{5}$(Si$_{x}$Ge$_{1-x})_{4}$ studied by X-Ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism.
Y.C. Tseng , D. Haskel , J. Lang , S. Sinogeikin , Ya. Mudryk , V.K. Pecharsky , K. Gschneidner Jr.

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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
10:36AM - 10:48AM

N11.00014: Fluctuation induced first-order phase transitions in a dipolar Ising ferromagnetic slab
Rafael M. Fernandes , Harry Westfahl Jr.

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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
10:48AM - 11:00AM

N11.00015: Hidden zero-temperature bicritical point in the 2D anisotropic Heisenberg model: Monte Carlo simulations and novel finite-size scaling
Chenggang Zhou , David Landau , Thomas Schulthess

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