Material:

NiSe

ID:

MMD-1609

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Compounds with the same formula: NiSe (3 entries found)
Compounds with the same elements: Ni-Se (11 entries found)
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Space group:

Crystal system

tetragonal

Space group number

129

Hermann-Mauguin

P4/nmm

Hall

P 4ab 2ab -1ab

Point group

4/mmm

Structure data:

Normalized formula

NiSe

The number of formula units per unit cell

2

The total number of atoms per unit cell

4

The number of inequivalent sites per unit cell

2

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Lattice parameters:

a (Å)

3.6544

b (Å)

3.6544

c (Å)

5.4302

α (deg.)

90.000

β (deg.)

90.000

γ (deg.)

90.000

Volume (Å3)

72.517

Density (g/cm3)

6.304

Crystal structure visualization:

Thermodynamic properties:

DFT calculations (details)

Formation energy (vs. elemental phases)

-224.4 meV/atom

Formation energy above hull

53.7 meV/atom

Phase diagram:

Phase diagram

Related structures:

Compounds with the same formula: NiSe

3 entries found

Compounds with the same elements: Ni-Se

11 entries found

Magnetic properties:

DFT calculations (details)

Magnetic ordering

Ferromagnetic

Total magnetic moment

0.29 μB/cell

Averaged magnetic moment

0.07 μB/atom

Magnetic polarization, Js = μ0Ms

0.05 T (= 39.8 emu/cm3)
LMTO-GF calculations (details)

Curie temperature, TC

DFT calculations (details)

Magnetic easy axis

Magnetic hardness parameter, κ

Atomic positions (fractional coordinates) and site-specific magnetic data:

index species w x y z m (μB) Esoc100 (meV) Esoc001 (meV)
1 Ni 2a 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.12 . .
2 Ni 2a 0.500000 0.500000 0.000000 0.12 . .
3 Se 2c 0.500000 0.000000 0.723815 0.01 . .
4 Se 2c 0.000000 0.500000 0.276185 0.01 . .
w: site multiplicity (the number of equivalent positions) and Wyckoff letter (a label for site symmetry)
m: local magnetic moment
Esoc100 (001): Spin-orbit coupling energy for the magnetization oriented along the crystallographic a (c) axis
(Individual Esoc values are temporarily not available while we perform maintenance.)
Terms and conditions

Site-resolved magnetic moments:

Local magnetic moments

Pair-wise magnetic data:

site i site j distance (Å) Jij (meV)
1 Ni 2a 2 Ni 2a 2.58 .
1 Ni 2a 3 Se 2c 2.36 .
1 Ni 2a 4 Se 2c 2.36 .
2 Ni 2a 3 Se 2c 2.36 .
2 Ni 2a 4 Se 2c 2.36 .
3 Se 2c 4 Se 2c 3.55 .
Jij: magnetic exchange parameter between site i and j (Individual Jij values are temporarily not available while we perform maintenance.)
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Terms and conditions

Pair-resolved magnetic exchange parameters:


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Individual exchange parameters:


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Methods:

DFT calculations

  • exchange-correlation energy functional: GGA-PBE
  • pseudopotential type: PAW
  • cutoff energy: 65.0 Ry
  • k-point grid: (kx, ky, kz) = (None, None, None) for magnetic anisotropy calculations
  • package: QE (v6.3)

LMTO-GF calculations

  • k-point grid: (kx, ky, kz) =
  • energy mesh: 41 points on an elliptical contour
  • package: Questaal (v7)

References:

References

Materials Project: mp-571033
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