ITINERANT MAGNETISM AND SPIN-GLASS STATES OF IRON RICH AMORPHOUS-ALLOYS

We generalize our self-consistent treatment of the itinerant magnetism of disordered or amorphous transition metal alloys, given in a series of recent papers, in such a way that now also itinerant spin glasses can be treated; i.e. not only the local magnitude, as before, also the local polarization direction can now differ from site, due to a subtle interplay between the isotropic intra-atomic Coulomb interaction and the anisotropic hopping terms in the Hamiltonian. Using a realistic approach with all relevant orbitals, this theory is then applied to a detailed numerical study of the magnetism of iron-rich amorphous Fe-Zr alloys, including hydrogenated samples, and of fictitious amorphous Fe at various densities. As a result we find that in the non-hydrogenated Fe-Zr alloys and in amorphous Fe the transverse components, although summing up to zero, can locally be almost comparable to the longitudinal polarization per atom. © 1990.