%0 Journal Article
%A A.S Ogale
%A S.B Ogale
%A Ramamoorthy Ramesh
%A T Venkatesan
%B Applied Physics Letters
%D 1999
%G eng
%I American Institute of Physics Inc.
%P 537-539
%R 10.1063/1.124440
%T Octahedral cation site disorder effects on magnetization in double-perovskite Sr2FeMoO6: Monte Carlo simulation study
%V 75
%X Monte Carlo simulation studies are performed to examine the implications of octahedral cation (Fe, Mo) site disorder for magnetization in the double-perovskite Sr2FeMoO6. Correlations between the near-neighbor cation distributions and the spin distributions are identified to gain insight into the spin arrangement within, and on the periphery of a given transition element cation cluster. It is shown that the drop in the magnetic moment is nearly linear with the increase in the mis-site defect concentration for the case of randomly created defects. Implications of the concomitant presence of mis-site defects and oxygen vacancies are also analyzed. © 1999 American Institute of Physics.