A quantitative criterion for determining the order of magnetic phase transitions using the magnetocaloric effect

Autor: Jia Yan Law, Victorino Franco, Luis Miguel Moreno-Ramírez, Alejandro Conde, Dmitriy Y. Karpenkov, Iliya Radulov, Konstantin P. Skokov, Oliver Gutfleisch
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2018)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-05111-w
Popis: Magnetocaloric materials often perform best when their magnetic transitions are at the boundary between first- and second-order behavior. Here the authors propose a simple criterion to determine the order of a transition, which may accelerate future magnetocaloric material searches.
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