Magnetic Materials and Monte Carlo Simulations
A special issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352). This special issue belongs to the section "Inorganic Crystalline Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 August 2026 | Viewed by 83
Special Issue Editors
Interests: condensed matter physics; materials physics
Interests: computational materials science; first-principles calculations; machine learning for materials design; AI+Materials
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Dear Colleagues,
Magnetic materials currently occupy a strategic position in many technological sectors, including information storage, energy conversion, spintronics, and magnetocaloric cooling. Their performance depends heavily on exchange interactions, anisotropy, crystal defects, and response to external fields. Understanding these phenomena at the microscopic level is therefore a major challenge for the design of innovative materials.
In this context, Monte Carlo simulations are a powerful and indispensable tool for exploring the fundamental mechanisms governing magnetic order, phase transitions, and hysteresis in increasingly realistic model systems. This numerical approach also offers the possibility of investigating the influence of new physical parameters and effectively guiding the engineering of functional materials.
This Special Issue aims to bring together recent contributions to the theoretical and numerical study of magnetism in various materials—such as two-dimensional structures, anti-perovskites, frustrated lattices, and magnetocaloric materials—with a particular focus on Monte Carlo simulations and related methodological developments. This issue will promote the dissemination of the latest advances and stimulate new research perspectives in the field of applied magnetism.
Dr. Mohammed Salama
Dr. Naihua Miao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- magnetic materials
- monte carlo methods
- monte carlo simulation
- hysteresis behavior
- spin systems
- phase transitions
- magnetic nanostructures
- magnetocaloric effect
- Density Functional Theory (DFT)
- ddvanced functional materials
- computational modeling
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