Nature Communications (Sep 2017)

Tricritical wings and modulated magnetic phases in LaCrGe3 under pressure

  • Udhara S. Kaluarachchi,
  • Sergey L. Bud’ko,
  • Paul C. Canfield,
  • Valentin Taufour

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00699-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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The study of phase transitions in quantum ferromagnets has shown that the approach to a continuous quantum ferromagnetic transition is typically interrupted by either a tricritical point or a new magnetic phase. Here the authors show that LaCrGe3 exhibits both these features in its phase diagram.