Nature Communications (Jul 2018)

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

  • Jia Yan Law,
  • Victorino Franco,
  • Luis Miguel Moreno-Ramírez,
  • Alejandro Conde,
  • Dmitriy Y. Karpenkov,
  • Iliya Radulov,
  • Konstantin P. Skokov,
  • Oliver Gutfleisch

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05111-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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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.