Quantum Phase Transitions in the Itinerant Ferromagnet ZrZn$_2$

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2004-08-19

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0408424v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.256404

We report a study of the ferromagnetism of ZrZn$_{2}$, the most promising material to exhibit ferromagnetic quantum criticality, at low temperatures $T$ as function of pressure $p$. We find that the ordered ferromagnetic moment disappears discontinuously at $p_c$=16.5 kbar. Thus a tricritical point separates a line of first order ferromagnetic transitions from second order (continuous) transitions at higher temperature. We also identify two lines of transitions of the magnetisation isotherms up to 12 T in the $p-T$ plane where the derivative of the magnetization changes rapidly. These quantum phase transitions (QPT) establish a high sensitivity to local minima in the free energy in ZrZn$_{2}$, thus strongly suggesting that QPT in itinerant ferromagnets are always first order.

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