Publications

2014

• H. W. Diehl, Daniel Grüneberg, Martin Hasenbusch, Alfred Hucht, Sergei B. Rutkevich, Felix M. Schmidt:
  Large-n approach to thermodynamic Casimir effects in slabs with free surfaces
  Phys. Rev. E 89, 062123 (2014), (Editors' suggestion)
  http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.3510


• Hendrik Hobrecht, Alfred Hucht:
  Direct simulation of critical Casimir forces
  EPL 106, 56005 (2014)
  http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.4088

2012

• Sanjubala Sahoo, Markus E. Gruner, Alfred Hucht, Georg Rollmann, Peter Entel :
  Nucleation, Structure and Magnetism of Transition Metal Clusters from First Principles
  In A. Lorke, M. Winterer, R. Schmechel, and C. Schulz, eds., Nanoparticles from the gas phase p. 77 (2012)


• D. Comtesse, H. C. Herper, A. Hucht and P. Entel:
  A first-principles study aided with Monte Carlo simulations of carbon doped iron-manganese alloys
  Eur. Phys. J. B 85, 343 (2012)
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2012-30321-x


• A. Grünebohm, A. Hucht, R. Meyer, D. Comtesse, and P. Entel:
  Simulation of cluster sintering, dipolar chain formation, and ferroelectric nanoparticulate systems
  In A. Lorke, M. Winterer, R. Schmechel, and C. Schulz, eds., Nanoparticles from the gas phase (2012)


• Mario Siewert, Markus E. Gruner, Alfred Hucht, Heike C. Herper, Antje Dannenberg, Aparna Chakrabarti, Navdeep Singh, Raymundo Arróyave and Peter Entel:
  A First-Principles Investigation of the Compositional Dependent Properties of Magnetic Shape Memory Heusler Alloys
  Advanced Engineering Materials 14, 530–546 (2012)
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adem.201200063


• Sanjubala Sahoo, Alfred Hucht, Shreekantha Sil, and Peter Entel:
  Exact diagonalization study of quantum spin clusters
  AIP Conference Proceedings 1461, 199-204 (2012)
  http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1063/1.4736886


• P. Entel, M. E. Gruner, A. Hucht, A. Dannenberg, M. Siewert, H. C. Herper, T. Kakeshita, T. Fukuda, V. V. Sokolovskiy and V. D. Buchelnikov:
  Phase Diagrams of Conventional and Inverse Functional Magnetic Heusler Alloys: New Theoretical and Experimental Investigations
  in: T. Kakeshita, T. Fukuda, A. Saxena, A. Planes (Eds.), Disorder and Strain-Induced Complexity in Functional Materials, Springer Series in Materials Science 148, 19-47 (2012)
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20943-7_2


• Alfred Hucht and Sebastian Angst:
  Sheared Ising models in three dimensions
  EPL 100, 20003 (2012)
  http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.3970


• Martin P. Magiera, Alfred Hucht, Haye Hinrichsen, Silvio R. Dahmen, and Dietrich E. Wolf:
  Dynamically induced vortices and the influence of domain walls
  EPL 100, 27004 (2012)
  http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.3225


• A. Ganczarczyk, S. Rojek, A. Quindeau, M. Geller, A. Hucht, C. Notthoff, D. Reuter, A. D. Wieck, J. König, and A. Lorke:
  Transverse Rectification in Density-Modulated Two-Dimensional Electron Gases
  Phys. Rev. B 86, 085309 (2012), http://arXiv.org/abs/0804.0689
  http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRB/v86/e085309


• H. W. Diehl, Daniel Grüneberg, Martin Hasenbusch, Alfred Hucht, Sergei B. Rutkevich, and Felix M. Schmidt:
  Exact thermodynamic Casimir forces for an interacting three-dimensional model system in film geometry with free surfaces
  EPL 100, 10004 (2012)
  http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.6613


• Sebastian Angst, Silvio R. Dahmen, Haye Hinrichsen, Alfred Hucht, and Martin P. Magiera:
  Explosive Ising
  J. Stat. Mech. (2012), L06002 (2012)
  http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.5196


• Sebastian Angst, Alfred Hucht, and Dietrich E. Wolf:
  Strongly anisotropic non-equilibrium phase transition in Ising models with friction
  Phys. Rev. E 85, 051120 (2012)
  http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.1998

2011

• Peter Entel, Sanjubala Sahoo, Alfred Hucht, and Markus E. Gruner:
  From Tiny Magnetic Clusters to Functional Magnetic Materials
  in: Proceedings of the INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCES IN CONDENSED AND NANO MATERIALS (ICACNM-2011), AIP Conf. Proc. 1393, 50-53 (2011)
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3653606


• Martin P. Magiera, Sebastian Angst, Alfred Hucht, and Dietrich E. Wolf:
  Magnetic friction: From Stokes to Coulomb behavior
  Phys. Rev. B 84, 212301 (2011)
  http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.2494


• Alfred Hucht, Daniel Grüneberg, and Felix M. Schmidt:
  Aspect-ratio dependence of thermodynamic Casimir forces
  Phys. Rev. E 83, 051101 (2011)
  http://arxiv.org/abs/1012.4399

2010

• V. D. Buchelnikov, V. V. Sokolovskiy, H. C. Herper, H. Ebert, M. E. Gruner, S. V. Taskaev, V. V. Khovaylo, A. Hucht, A. Dannenberg, M. Ogura, H. Akai, M. Acet and P. Entel:
  First-principles and Monte Carlo study of magnetostructural transition and magnetocaloric properties of Ni_2+xMn_1-xGa
  Physical Review B 81, 094411 (2010)
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.81.094411


• M. Siewert, M. E. Gruner, A. Dannenberg, A. Hucht, S. M. Shapiro, G. Xu, D. L. Schlagel, T. A. Lograsso, and P. Entel:
  Electronic structure and lattice dynamics of the magnetic shape-memory alloy Co₂NiGa
  Physical Review B 82, 064420 (2010)
  http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.82.064420


• S. Sahoo, A. Hucht, M. E. Gruner, G. Rollmann, P. Entel, A. Postnikov, J. Ferrer, L. Fernández-Seivane, M. Richter, D. Fritsch, and S. Sil:
  Magnetic properties of small Pt-capped Fe, Co, and Ni clusters: A density functional theory study
  Physical Review B 82, 054418 (2010)
  http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.82.054418


• Markus E. Gruner, Waheed A. Adeagbo, Alexey T. Zayak, Alfred Hucht and Peter Entel:
  Lattice dynamics and structural stability of ordered Fe₃Ni, Fe₃Pd and Fe₃Pt alloys using density functional theory
  Physical Review B 81, 064109 (2010)
  http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.81.064109

2009

• Antje Dannenberg, Markus E. Gruner, Alfred Hucht and Peter Entel:
  Surface energies of stoichiometric FePt and CoPt alloys and their implications for nanoparticle morphologies
  Phys. Rev. B 80, 245438 (2009)
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.245438


• S. K. Nayak, M. Ogura, A. Hucht, H. Akai and P. Entel:
  Monte Carlo simulations of diluted magnetic semiconductors using ab initio exchange parameters
  Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 21, 064238 (2009)
  http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/-search=62711682.2/0953-8984/21/6/064238


• Denis Comtesse, Alfred Hucht, and Daniel Grüneberg:
  Thermodynamic Casimir Effect in the large-n limit
  arXiv:0904.3661 (2009)
  http://arxiv.org/abs/0904.3661


• Alfred Hucht:
  Non-equilibrium phase transition in an exactly solvable driven Ising model with friction
  Phys. Rev. E 80, 061138 (2009)
  http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.0533

2008

• Georg Rollmann, Sanjubala Sahoo, Alfred Hucht, and Peter Entel:
  Magnetism and chemical ordering in binary transition metal clusters
  Phys. Rev. B 78, 134404 (2008)
  http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.78.134404


• V. D. Buchelnikov, P. Entel, S. V. Taskaev, V. V. Sokolovskiy, A. Hucht, M. Ogura, H. Akai, M. E. Gruner and S. K. Nayak:
  Monte Carlo study of the influence of antiferromagnetic exchange interactions on the phase transitions of ferromagnetic Ni-Mn-X alloys (X=In,Sn,Sb)
  Phys. Rev. B 78, 184427 (2008)
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.78.184427


• P. Entel, M. E. Gruner, G. Rollmann, A. Hucht, S. Sahoo, A. T. Zayak, H. C. Herper, A. Dannenberg:
  First-principles investigations of multimetallic transition metal clusters
  Phil. Mag. 88, 2725 (2008)
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14786430802398040


• P. Entel, M. E. Gruner, A. Hucht, R. Meyer, G. Rollmann, S. Sahoo, and S. K. Nayak:
  Simulating structure, magnetism and electronic properties of monoatomic, binary and ternary transition metal nanoclusters
  in: MESOSCOPIC, NANOSCOPIC AND MACROSCOPIC MATERIALS: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Mesoscopic, Nanoscopic and Macroscopic Materials (IWMNMM-2008), AIP Conference Proceedings 1063, 3 (2008)
  http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/confproceed/1063.jsp


• Peter Entel, Markus Ernst Gruner, Alfred Hucht:
  A first-principles study of the martensitic instabilities in magnetic shape memory alloys
  Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 1050E, 1050-BB03-01 (2008)
  http://www.mrs.org/s_mrs/sec_subscribe.asp?CID=11330&DID=216049


• Sanjeev K. Nayak, Masako Ogura, Alfred Hucht, Stephan Buschmann, Hisazumi Akai and Peter Entel:
  Ab initio simulations of diluted magnetic semiconductors: cobalt-doped zinc oxide
  phys. stat. sol.(a) 205, 1839 (2008)
  http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120175097/abstract


• Peter Entel, Vasily D. Buchelnikov, Markus E. Gruner, Alfred Hucht, Vladimir V. Khovailo, Sanjeev K. Nayak, Alexey T. Zayak:
  Shape Memory Alloys: A Summary of Recent Achievements
  Mater. Sci. Forum 583, 21 (2008)
  http://www.scientific.net/0-87849-381-6/21


• M. E. Gruner, W. A. Adeagbo, A. T. Zayak, A. Hucht, S. Buschmann and P. Entel:
  Influence of magnetism on the structural stability of cubic L2₁ Ni₂MnGa
  Eur. Phys. J.: Special Topics 158, 193 (2008)
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2008-00675-1


• Markus E. Gruner, Georg Rollmann, Alfred Hucht and Peter Entel:
  Structural and Magnetic Properties of Transition Metal Nanoparticles from First Principles
  in: Advances in Solid State Physics, Vol. 47, ed. R. Haug, Springer, Berlin, 117 (2008)
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74325-5_10


• Dirk Kadau, Alfred Hucht, and Dietrich E. Wolf:
  Magnetic Friction in Ising Spin Systems
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 137205 (2008)
  http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v101/e137205

2007

• Georg Rollmann, Markus E. Gruner, Alfred Hucht, Ralf Meyer, Peter Entel, Murilo Tiago, and James R. Chelikowsky:
  Shell-wise Mackay transformation in iron nano-clusters
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 083402 (2007)
  http://www.thp.uni-due.de/Paper/ralf/mackay.pdf


• A. Hucht, S. Buschmann and P. Entel:
  Molecular dynamics simulations of the dipolar-induced formation of magnetic nanochains and nanorings
  Europhys. Lett. 77, 57003 (2007)
  http://www.thp.uni-due.de/Paper/fred/200701-Dipol.pdf


• Alfred Hucht:
  Thermodynamic Casimir effect in ⁴He films near T_λ: Monte Carlo results
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 185301 (2007)
  http://arxiv.org/abs/0706.3458

2006

• M. E. Gruner, G. Rollmann, A. Hucht, P. Entel:
  Massively Parallel Density Functional Theory Calculations of Large Transition Metal Clusters
  Lecture Series on Computer and Computational Sciences 7, 173 (2006)
  http://www.thp.uni-due.de/Paper/me/Gruner-LSCCS-7-173.pdf


• M. E. Gruner, A. Hucht, P. Entel, M. Farle:
  Verfahren zum Öffnen von Hohlstrukturen aus magnetischen Nanopartikeln
  PCT-Patentanmeldung WO 2006/119957 A2, (2006)


• V. Salgueiriño-Maceira, M. A. Correa-Duarte, A. Hucht and M. Farle:
  One-dimensional assemblies of silica-coated cobalt nanoparticles: Magnetic pearl-necklaces
  J Magn. Magn. Mater. 303, 163 (2006)
  http://www.thp.uni-due.de/Paper/fred/200608-JMMM.pdf

2004

• D. Grüneberg and A. Hucht:
  Universal finite-size scaling analysis of Ising models with long-range interactions at the upper critical dimensionality: Isotropic case
  Phys. Rev. E 69, 036104 (2004)
  http://www.thp.uni-due.de/Paper/fred/200301-PRE.pdf

2002

• S. Lübeck and A. Hucht:
  Mean-field scaling function of the universality class of absorbing phase transitions with a conserved field
  J. Phys. A 35, 4853 (2002)
  http://www.thp.uni-due.de/Paper/sven/preprint_2002_02.ps.gz


• K. D. Usadel and A. Hucht:
  Anisotropy of ultra-thin ferromagnetic films and the spin reorientation transition
  Phys. Rev. B 66, 024419 (2002)
  http://www.thp.uni-due.de/Paper/fred/200109-PRB.pdf


• A. Hucht:
  On the symmetry of universal finite-size scaling functions in anisotropic systems
  J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 35, L481 (2002)
  http://www.thp.uni-due.de/Paper/fred/200108-PRL.ps

2001

• S. Lübeck and A. Hucht:
  Absorbing phase transition in a conserved lattice gas with random neighbor particle hopping
  Journal of Physics A 34, L577 (2001)
  http://www.thp.uni-due.de/Paper/sven/preprint_2001_02.ps.gz

2000

• A. Hucht and K. D. Usadel:
  Influence of magnetic fields on the spin reorientation transition in ultrathin films
  Phil. Mag. B 80, 275 (2000)
  http://www.thp.uni-due.de/Paper/fred/9810-Isomes.ps


• L. Roters, A. Hucht, S. Lübeck, U. Nowak, and K.D. Usadel:
  Dynamics of driven interfaces in heterogenous magnetic systems
  in Structure and Dynamics of Heterogenous Systems, ed. by P. Entel and D. E. Wolf, (World Scientific, Singapore) 338 (2000)
  http://www.thp.Uni-Duisburg.DE/~lars/Paper/sdhs-paper.ps.gz

1999

• L. Roters, A. Hucht, S. Lübeck, U. Nowak, and K. D. Usadel:
  Depinning transition and thermal fluctuations in the random field Ising model
  Physical Review E 60, 5202 (1999)
  http://www.thp.uni-due.de/Paper/lars/pre-200599.ps.gz


• A. Hucht and K. D. Usadel:
  On the spin reorientation transition in ultra-thin Ni/Cu(001) films
  J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 198-199, 491 (1999)
  http://www.thp.uni-due.de/Paper/fred/9806-Vancouver.ps


• A. Hucht and K. D. Usadel:
  Theory of the spin reorientation transition in ultra-thin ferromagnetic films
  J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 203, 88 (1999)
  http://www.thp.uni-due.de/Paper/fred/9805-SanSebastian.ps

1998

• P. Bödeker, A. Hucht, A. Schreyer, J. Borchers, F. Güthoff, H. Zabel:
  Reorientation of Spin Density Waves in Cr(001) Films Induced by Fe(001) Cap Layers
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 914 (1998)
  http://www.thp.uni-due.de/Paper/fred/9708-FeCr.ps

1997

• A. Hucht and K. D. Usadel:
  Reorientation Transition of Ultra-Thin Ferromagnetic Films
  Physical Review B 55, 12309 (1997)
  http://www.thp.uni-due.de/Paper/fred/9608-pap.ps

1996

• A. Hucht and K. D. Usadel:
  Characterization of the reorientation transition in classical Heisenberg models with dipole interaction
  J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 156, 423 (1996)
  http://www.thp.uni-due.de/Paper/fred/9509-mmml.ps

1995

• A. Hucht, A. Moschel and K. D. Usadel:
  Monte-Carlo study of the reorientation transition in Heisenberg models with dipolar interaction
  J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 148, 32 (1995)
  http://www.thp.uni-due.de/Paper/fred/9408-icm.ps

1994

• U. Nowak and A. Hucht:
  Monte Carlo simulation of Ising models with dipole interaction
  J. Appl. Phys. 76 (10), 6341 (1994)

1993

• A. Moschel, K. D. Usadel and A. Hucht:
  Magnetization of ferromagnetic-antiferromagnetic double layers
  Physical Review B 47, 8676 (1993)

1992

• A. Hucht:
  Nonanalytic correlation length in Ising systems with one surface defect line
  Physica A 183, 223 (1992)
  http://www.thp.uni-due.de/Paper/fred/9205-Paper.pdf

PhD Theses

• Alfred Hucht:
  Temperaturabhängigkeit magnetischer Anisotropien in ultradünnen Filmen
  (1999-08-16)

Diploma and Master Theses

• Alfred Hucht:
  Defektlinien in Isingsystemen
  (1992-04-01)

Habilitations

• Alfred Hucht:
  Fluctuation-induced forces near continuous phase transitions in and out of equilibrium
  (2012-07-19)