Magnetic material and method for producing same

A soft magnetic or semi-hard magnetic material, the magnetic material being comprising:

• a first phase having crystals with a bcc structure containing Fe and an M component, in which M is one or more selected from the group consisting of Zr, Hf, V, Nb, Ta, Cr, Mo, W, Cu, Zn, and Si;
• and
• a second phase having crystals with a bcc structure containing Fe and the M component,
• wherein the first phase and the second phase do not contain Al, Mg and B,
• wherein a content of the M component when a total of Fe and the M component contained in the second phase is 100 atom % is an amount of 1.5 times or more and 105 times or less relative to a content of the M component when a total of Fe and the M component contained in the first phase is 100 atom % and/or is 2 atom % or more and 100 atom % or less, the magnetic material being a form of a powder,
• wherein at least one of the first phase and the second phase is ferromagnetically coupled with an adjacent phase, and
• wherein an average powder particle diameter when the magnetic material is soft magnetic is 10 nm or more and 5 mm or less, and an average powder particle diameter when the magnetic material is semi-hard magnetic is 10 nm or more and 10 μm or less.