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Anisotropic magnetic critical behavior of van der Waals room-temperature ferromagnet Fe5GeTe2 identified by magnetocaloric measurements

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: Due to the room-temperature Curie temperature and large saturation moment, Fe5GeTe2 is considered a highly attractive van der Waals ferromagnet. Studying its magnetic critical behavior can provide valuable information about its magnetic phase transition. Notably, compared with the conventional methods for studying magnetic critical behavior, such as the modified Arrott plot, scaling analysis based on isothermal magnetic entropy change ΔSM(T,H) has advantages in dealing with the complex magnetic system Fe5GeTe2. However, studies on its magnetic critical behavior based on this method remain completely lacking. Here, we investigate the magnetic critical behavior of Fe5GeTe2 based on its ΔSM(T,H). Through scaling analysis of its ΔSM(T,H), two sets of reliable critical exponents β, δ, and γ are obtained, which are 0.320(8), 7.99(1), and 2.24(2) for H//ab and 0.494(2), 4.28(4), and 1.62(3) for H//c. The significant difference between H//ab and H//c indicates strong anisotropy in its magnetic critical behavior. Furthermore, the fact that the obtained critical exponents for both H//ab and H//c cannot be simply described by a single universality class reveals a crossover of magnetic interactions in Fe5GeTe2.

Source: Journal of Applied Physics

DOI: 10.1063/5.0232522

Authors: Rui Liang, Liang Zhou, Jiawei Liu, Nujiang Tang

Institutions: Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Nanjing University

Language: English

Topic: Theoretical and Computational Physics

Subfield: Condensed Matter Physics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,500

Funders: National Natural Science Foundation of China, Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province