Doctor of physics and mathematics, associate professor, researcher at the Department of Functional Nanosystems and High-Temperature Materials, NUST MISIS, professor at the Condensed Matter Department of the Chelyabinsk State University
Research Interests
Magnetic and thermodynamic properties of alloys and compounds; first-principles calculations of properties of alloys and compounds.
Field of knowledge according to the OECD classifier
1.03 UK — Physics, condensed matter; 2.05 PM Materials science — multidisciplinary.
Doctor of physics and mathematics, researcher at the Department of Functional Nanosystems and High-Temperature Materials, NUST MISIS, professor at the Condensed Matter Department of the Chelyabinsk State University.
2012 — present: researcher at the Department of Functional Nanosystems and High-Temperature Materials, NUST MISIS.
2019 — present: professor at the Condensed Matter Department, Chelyabinsk State University.
2016: doctor of physics and mathematics (Chelyabinsk State University).
2010: PhD in physics and mathematics (Chelyabinsk State University).
Invited researcher (Duisburg-Essen University, Duisburg, Germany) February-March 2013, July-October 2014, September-October 2015, August 2018, November-December 2018, October 2019.
Invited researcher (Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, USA), August 2016.
Invited researcher (Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland), March 2018, October 2018, March 2019, January 2020.
2009: postgraduate fellow DAAD, University of Duisburg — Essen (Germany).
2007: master’s degree majoring in “Physics” (Chelyabinsk State University).
2005: bachelor’s degree majoring in “Physics” (Chelyabinsk State University).
Main Results of Scientific Work
Features of the magnetocaloric effect in the vicinity of phase transitions of the 1st and 2nd order were investigated theoretically.
The compounds with large magnetocaloric effect were predicted.
The impacts of transition metals on structural, magnetic and thermodynamic properties of magnetically ordered shape memory alloys were studied theoretically.
Magnetic, structural and magnetostructural phase transitions in magnetically ordered shape memory alloys were investigated theoretically.
Scopus Hirsch Index — 16.
Number of articles on Scopus — 147.
SPIN RSCI:
ORCID: 0000-0002-5939- 2016.
ResearcherID: C-4608-2011.
Scopus AuthorID: 25825583100.
Significant Research Projects, Grants
- “Fundamental investigations of prospective multifunctional alloys: structure, physico-mechanical and thermophysical properties”, grant of the Russian Science Foundation,
2017-2022. - “Features of the exchange-correlation interaction in halfmetallic ferrimagnetic Mn-based Heusler alloys”, RFBR grant, 2021.
- “Magnetic, magnetoelastic, and magnetocaloric properties of intermetallics exhibiting metamagnetic phase transformation: ab initio and Monte Carlo studies”, Council for Grants of the President of the Russian Federation,
2016-2017. - “Theoretical and experimental investigations of magnetic and magnetocaloric properties quaternary Ni-Mn-X-Y (X = Fe, Cu, Co, Y = Ga, In, Sn, Sb) Heusler alloys in the vicinity of room temperature”, Council for Grants of the President of the Russian Federation,
2012-2013.
Significant publications
- V.D. Buchelnikov, P. Entel, S.V. Taskaev, V.V. Sokolovskiy, A. Hucht, M. Ogura, H. Akai, M.E. Gruner, 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).
- 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, P. Entel, “First-principles and Monte Carlo study of magnetostructural transition and magnetocaloric properties of Ni 2+ x Mn 1− x Ga” Phys. Rev. B 81, 094411 (2010).
- V.V. Sokolovskiy, V.D. Buchelnikov, M.A. Zagrebin, P. Entel, S. Sahoo, M. Ogura, “First-principles investigation of chemical and structural disorder in magnetic Ni 2 Mn 1+ x Sn 1− x Heusler alloys”, Phys. Rev. B 86, 134418 (2012).
- D. Comtesse, M.E. Gruner, M. Ogura, V.V. Sokolovskiy, V.D. Buchelnikov, A. Grünebohm, R. Arróyave, N. Singh, T. Gottschall, O. Gutfleisch, V.A. Chernenko, F. Albertini, S. Fähler, P. Entel, “First-principles calculation of the instability leading to giant inverse magnetocaloric effects”, Phys. Rev. B 89, 184403 (2014).
- V.V. Sokolovskiy, P. Entel, V.D. Buchelnikov, M.E. Gruner, “Achieving large magnetocaloric effects in Co-and Cr-substituted Heusler alloys: Predictions from first-principles and Monte Carlo studies”, Phys. Rev. B 91, 220409® (2015).
- V.D. Buchelnikov, V.V. Sokolovskiy, O.N. Miroshkina, M.A. Zagrebin, J. Nokelainen, A. Pulkkinen, B. Barbiellini, E. Lähderanta, “Correlation effects on ground-state properties of ternary Heusler alloys: First-principles study”, Phys. Rev. B 99, 014426 (2019).
- V.V. Sokolovskiy, M.E. Gruner, P. Entel, M. Acet, A. Çakır, D.R. Baigutlin, V.D. Buchelnikov, “Segregation tendency of Heusler alloys”, Phys. Rev. Materials 3, 084413 (2019).
- A. Pulkkinen, B. Barbiellini, J. Nokelainen, V. Sokolovskiy, D. Baigutlin, O. Miroshkina, M. Zagrebin, V. Buchelnikov, C. Lane, R.S. Markiewicz, A. Bansil, J. Sun, K. Pussi, E. Lähderanta, “Coulomb correlation in noncollinear antiferromagnetic alpha-Mn”, Phys. Rev. B 99, 014426 (2019).
- D.R. Baigutlin, V.V. Sokolovskiy, O.N. Miroshkina, M.A. Zagrebin, J. Nokelainen, A. Pulkkinen, B. Barbiellini, K. Pussi, E. Lähderanta, V.D. Buchelnikov, A.T. Zayak, “Electronic structure beyond the generalized gradient approximation for Ni2MnGa”, Phys. Rev. B 102, 045127 (2020).
- V.D. Buchelnikov, V.V. Sokolovskiy, O.N. Miroshkina, D.R. Baigutlin, M.A. Zagrebin, B. Barbiellini, E. Lähderanta, “Prediction of a Heusler alloy with switchable metal-to-half-metal behavior”, Phys. Rev. B 103, 054414 (2021).
Significant Patents
Program for numerical simulation of the magnetocaloric effect in a Heusler alloy by the Monte Carlo method. Certificate No. 2016662336, registration date 11/07/2016.
Scientific supervision and teaching
O. Miroshkina, “Structural, magnetic, electronic and thermodynamic properties of Ni, Fe and Pd-based Heusler alloys”, PhD in physics and mathematics, specialty 04.01.07 “Condensed matter physics”, 12/18/2020.
K. Erager,
A. Sanosyan,
Teaching
Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education Chelyabinsk State University.
Lectures for bachelor’s and master’s courses:- Physics of phase transformations (area of study “Physics”, master’s program, year 1) (from 2010).
- Physics of strength and mechanical properties of solids (areas of study “Materials”, “Physics”, “Nanoengineering”, year 4) (from 2010).
- Testing of products (area of study “Nanoengineering”, year 4) (from 2015).
- Condensed matter physics (area of study 03.06.01 “Physics and astronomy”, profile 01.04.07 Condensed matter physics, year 3) (from 2020).
- Management of innovative projects (area of study 03.06.01 “Physics and astronomy”, profile 01.04.07 Condensed matter physics, year 1) (from 2020).
- History and methodology of physics (area of study 03.06.01 “Physics and astronomy”, profile 01.04.07 Condensed matter physics, year 1) (from 2020).
Scientific and social activities
Member of the dissertation council D212.296.03 (Chelyabinsk State University).
Guest co-editor of journal “Materials Research Proceedings” (Vol. 9, 2018) adapted from the 3rd International Conference “Shape Memory Alloys”, Chelyabinsk.
Guest co-editor of scientific collection “Phase Transition, Critical and Nonlinear Phenomena in Condensed Matter PTCNPCM 2015” (Trans Tech Publications, Materials Science Forum, Vol. 845, 2015).
Member of the organizing committee of VII Euro-Asian Symposium “Trends in Magnetism EASTMAG-2019”, Ekaterinburg, Russia, 2019.
Member of the organizing committee of International Conference “Phase Transition, Critical and Nonlinear Phenomena in Condensed Matter”, Makhachkala, Russia, 2019.
Chairman of the local committee of the Third International Conference “Shape Memory Alloys”, Chelyabinsk, Russia, 2018.
Member of the organizing committee of the International Conference “Phase Transition, Critical and Nonlinear Phenomena in Condensed Matter”, Makhachkala, Russia, 2017.
Member of the organizing committee of the International Conference “Phase Transition, Critical and Nonlinear Phenomena in Condensed Matter”, Chelyabinsk, Russia, 2015.
