RNDr. Vaclav Drchal, CSc


Senior Research Fellow
Institute of Physics, AS CR
Na Slovance 2, 182 21 Prague 8,
Czech Republic
Tel:+420-266052926
Fax:+420-286890527
Email: drchal@fzu.cz

 


Research interests:

·  Solids, Surfaces, Interfaces, Multilayers, and Nanostructures

·  Ab Initio Electronic Structure

·  Relativistic Effects

·  Alloy Phase Stability

·  Magnetic Properties: Exchange Interactions and Curie Temperatures

·  Electron Transport


Monograph:

·  I. Turek, V. Drchal, J. Kudrnovsky, M. Sob, and P. Weinberger: Electronic Structure of Disordered Alloys, Surfaces, and Interfaces, Kluwer Academic, Boston (1997).


Selected publications:

          · M. Ondráček, O. Bengone, J. Kudrnovský, V. Drchal, F. Máca,, and I. Turek: Magnetic phase stability of monolayeres: Fe on TaxW1-x random alloy as a case study, Phys. Rev. 81 (2010) 064410.

          · V. Drchal, M. Ondráček, J. Kudrnovský, O. Bengone, I. Turek, and F. Máca: Exchange interactions in the bcc Fe/TaW(001) system, e-Journal of Surface Science and Technology 8 (2010) 157.

            ·  S.K. Bose, J. Kudrnovský, V. Drchal, and I. Turek: Magnetism of mixed quaternary Heusler alloys: (Ni,T)2MnSn (T=Cu,Pd) as a case study, Phys. Rev. B 82 (2010) 174402.
 
             · V. Drchal, M. Ondráček, J. Kudrnovský, O. Bengone, I. Turek, and F. Máca: Exchange interactions in the bcc Fe/TaW(001) system, e-Journal of Surface Science and Nanotechnology  8 (2010), 157-160.
 
             · F. Máca, V. Drchal, I. Turek, O. Bengone, J. Redinger, and J. Kudrnovský:  Antiferromagnetic ordering in the Fe (001) monolayer mediated by the Ir substrate,  e-Journal of Surface Science and Nanotechnology  8  
                             (2010), 152-156.
 
             · J. Kamarád, J. Kudrnovský, Z.Arnold, V. Drchal, and I. Turek: Pressure effect on magnetic moments in ordered Ni3Mn and disordered Ni100-xMnx alloys - ab initio calculation and experiment, High Pressure Research 31 
                            (2011) 116-120.
 
             · J. Kudrnovský, V. Drchal, S. Khmelevskyi, and I. Turek: Effects of atomic and magnetic order on electronic transport in Pd-rich Pd-Fe alloys,  Phys. Rev. B 84 (2011) 214436.
 
             · S.K. Bose, J. Kudrnovský, and V. Drchal: Magnetism and electronic transport in (Ni,Cu)2MnSn Heusler alloys under ambient and elevated pressures,  World Journal of Engineering  9  (2012), 13-22.
 
             · J.K. Glasbrenner, K.D. Belaschchenko, J. Kudrnovský, V. Drchal, S. Khmelevskyi, and I. Turek: First principles study of spin-disorder resistivity of heavy rare-earth metals from: Gd-Tm series, Phys. Rev. B 85 (2012)       
                           174422.
 
             · J. Kudrnovský, V. Drchal, I. Turek, S. Khmelevskyi, J.K. Glasbrenner, and K.D. Belaschchenko:  Spin-disorder resistivity of ferromagnetic metals: the disordered local moment approach,  Phys. Rev. B 86 (2012)  
                           144423.
 
             · P. Středa and V. Drchal: Real-space distribution of the Hall current densities and their spin polarization  in nonmagnetic zinc-blende semiconductors, Phys. Rev. B 86 (2012) 195204.
 
             · I. Turek, J. Kudrnovský, and V. Drchal:  Ab initio theory of galvanomagnetic phenomena in ferromagnetic metals and disordered alloys, Phys. Rev. B  86 (2012) 014405.
 
             · V. Drchal, J. Kudrnovský, and I. Turek: Effective magnetic Hamiltonians, J. Supercond. Nov. Magn. 26 (2013) 1997-2000.
 
             · V. Drchal, J. Kudrnovský, and I. Turek: Effective magnetic Hamiltonians  from first-principles, EPJ Web of Conferences 40 (2013) 11001.
 
             · J. Kudrnovský, V. Drchal, and I. Turek:  Magnetotransport in Pd-Rich PdFe Alloys, J. Supercond. Nov. Magn. 26 (2013) 1749 - 1752.
 
             · J. Kudrnovský, V. Drchal, I. Turek, S. Khmelevskyi, J.K. Glasbrenner, and K.D. Belaschchenko: The disordered local moment approach to the spin-disorder resistivity of metallic ferromagnets, EPJ Web of 
                             Conferences  40 (2013) 12001.
 
             · M. Mašín, L. Bergqvist, J. Kudrnovský, M. Kotrla, and V. Drchal: The first-principles study of thermodynamical properties of random magnetic overlayers  on fcc-Cu(001) substrate,  Phys. Rev. B  87 (2013) 075452. 
 
             · M. Mašín, L. Bergqvist, J. Kudrnovský, M. Kotrla, and V. Drchal: Critical Temperatures of Random Iron-Cobalt Overlayers on the fcc-Cu(001) substrate, J. Supercond. Nov. Magn.  26 (2013) 809-812.
 
             · P. Středa and V. Drchal: Spin polarization of Bloch states and Hall currents in GaAs quantum wells,  EPJ Web of Conferences  40 (2013) 12003.
 
             · J. Kudrnovský, I. Turek, and V. Drchal: Anomalous Hall effect in stoichiometric Heusler alloys with native disorder: the first principles study, submitted to PRB


Presentations:

         - DPG-Spring-Meeting 2012 Berlin, Germany, 25.-30.3.2012, Pressure dependence of Curie temperature and resistivity of complex Heusler alloys pdf-file

         - 3rd International Conference on Superconductivity and Magnetism 2012, Istanbul, Turkey, 29.4.-4.5.2012 Effective magnetic Hamiltonians: ab initio determination pdf-file

         - JEMS 2012, Parma, Italy 9.-14.9.2012, Effective magnetic Hamiltonians from first principles pdf-file

         - 520. WE-Heraeus-Seminar on Spin-orbit-driven transverse transport phenomena, Bad Honnef, Germany, 3.-6.12.2012,

              Real-space distribution of the Hall current densities and their spin polarization in non- magnetic zinc-blende semiconductors pdf-file