Critical behavior and magnetocaloric effect in <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:msub><mml:mi>VI</mml:mi><mml:mn>3</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:math>
Yu Liu, Milinda Abeykoon, C. Petrovic
Abstract
The authors experimentally study the critical behavior and magnetocaloric effect of bulk VI3, a low dimensional ferromagnetic semiconductor, around the ferromagnetic transition and show that it is of second-order and is situated close to a three- to two-dimensional critical point.
Topics & Concepts
Magnetic refrigerationFerromagnetismCondensed matter physicsMaterials scienceCritical exponentPhase transitionCritical phenomenaPhysicsSituatedThermodynamicsTopological Materials and Phenomena2D Materials and ApplicationsAdvanced Condensed Matter Physics