A method is developed which allows to determine the first-order and thesecond-order magnetoelastic coefficients of a magnetic bulk material from theab-initio calculation of the magnetocrystalline anisotropy energy as functionof a prestrain. Excplicit results are given for bcc Fe, and they agree wellwith experimental data obtained from the magnetostrictive stress measurementsfor epitaxial Fe films.
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