Magnetic poly-functional materials - new access of theory and experiment

The present very effective experimental tools and theoretical methods make possible an active search for magnetic materials manifesting the pronounced poly-functional effects and the accessible ranges of magnetic and electric fields, temperatures and pressures create real preconditions for their future exploitation. Within the project, we will concentrate our activity on the detailed experimental and theoretical study of a role of an entanglement of crystalline and magnetic order in the magneto-transport, the magneto-caloric and the magneto-optic effects. From a large family of poly-functional magnetic materials, the Mn-based alloys, dominantly the Heusler alloys of type T2MnX and RMn2X2 (T = d-electron elements, R = rare earths and X = p-electron elements), will be selected. The concerted effort of two teams (Faculty of Mathematics and Physics CU and Institute of Physics ASCR, v.v.i.) will be based on their long termed successful scientific cooperation within the joint laboratories and within the education of post-gradual students.