Critical behavior of the van der Waals bonded ferromagnet
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Univ. of Belgrade (Serbia)
The critical properties of the single-crystalline van der Waals bonded ferromagnet Fe3-xGeTe2 were investigated by bulk dc magnetization around the paramagnetic to ferromagnetic (FM) phase transition. The Fe3-xGeTe2 single crystals grown by self-flux method with Fe deficiency x ≈ 0.36 exhibit bulk FM ordering below Tc = 152 K. The Mössbauer spectroscopy was used to provide information on defects and local atomic environment in such crystals. Critical exponents β = 0.372(4) with a critical temperature Tc= 151.25(5) K and γ = 1.265(15) with Tc = 151.17(12) K are obtained by the Kouvel-Fisher method, whereas δ = 4.50 ( 1 ) is obtained by a critical isotherm analysis at Tc = 151 K. These critical exponents obey the Widom scaling relation δ = 1 + γ / β , indicating self-consistency of the obtained values. With these critical exponents the isotherm M(H) curves below and above the critical temperatures collapse into two independent universal branches, obeying the single scaling equation m = f±(h), where m and h are renormalized magnetization and field, respectively. The exponents determined in this study are close to those calculated from the results of the renormalization group approach for a heuristic model of three-dimensional Heisenberg (d = 3,n = 3) spins coupled with the attractive long-range interactions between spins that decay as J(r) ≈ r-(3+σ) with σ = 1.89.
- Research Organization:
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0012704
- OSTI ID:
- 1425051
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 1404741
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-114855-2017-JAAM; PRBMDO; TRN: US1802017
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review B, Vol. 96, Issue 14; ISSN 2469-9950
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
Web of Science
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Hard magnetic properties in nanoflake van der Waals Fe3GeTe2 | text | January 2018 |
Anisotropic magnetocaloric effect in Fe$_{3-x}$GeTe$_2$ | text | January 2019 |
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