`ISRN ThermodynamicsVolume 2012 (2012), Article ID 917836, 11 pageshttp://dx.doi.org/10.5402/2012/917836`
Research Article

## Thermodynamics of f.c.c.-Ni–Fe Alloys in a Static Applied Magnetic Field

1Department of Theoretical Physics, Institute for Applied Physics, N.A.S. of Ukraine, 58 Petropavlivska Street, 40030 Sumy, Ukraine
2Department of Solid State Theory, G. V. Kurdyumov Institute for Metal Physics, N.A.S. of Ukraine, 36 Academician Vernadsky Boulevard, 03680 Kyyiv-142, Ukraine
3Department of Materials Design and Technology, Institute for Advanced Materials Science and Innovative Technologies, 15 Sauletekio Avenue, 10224 Vilnius, Lithuania
4Department of Partial Differential Equations, Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann, UMR 5224 CNRS, Tour IRMA, rue des Mathématiques 51, P.O. Box 53, 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France

Received 10 February 2012; Accepted 27 February 2012

Academic Editors: N. S. Ananikian, G. Maurin, B. Merinov, and S. Yulin

Copyright © 2012 I. V. Vernyhora et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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