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

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jia Yan Law, Victorino Franco, Luis Miguel Moreno-Ramírez, Alejandro Conde, Dmitriy Y. Karpenkov, Iliya Radulov, Konstantin P. Skokov, Oliver Gutfleisch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05111-w
Description
Summary: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.
ISSN:2041-1723