Abstract
The electronic properties of the disordered partly metastable alloy Cu xRh 1−x are studied by band theory assuming five ordered structures. The calculated total energies yield the heats of formation from which metastability is deduced in a certain range of composition in agreement with experiment. Using the fixed spin moment method the spin susceptibility is calculated. The experimentally observed maximum in the susceptibility as a function of composition can be explained by the present results. It is caused by a band filling connected with covalent interactions between Rh and Cu.
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