Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2004-04-22
Phys. Rev. B 71, 094413 (2005)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
6 pages, 4 figures, accepted version
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.71.094413
An adiabatic demagnetization process is studied in Gd2Ti2O7, a geometrically frustrated antiferromagnet on a pyrochlore lattice. In contrast to conventional paramagnetic salts, this compound can exhibit a temperature decrease by a factor of ten in the temperature range below the Curie-Weiss constant. The most efficient cooling is observed in the field interval between 120 and 60 kOe corresponding to a crossover between saturated and spin-liquid phases. This phenomenon indicates that a considerable part of the magnetic entropy survives in the strongly correlated state. According to the theoretical model, this entropy is associated with a macroscopic number of local modes remaining gapless till the saturation field. Monte Carlo simulations on a classical spin model demonstrate good agreement with the experiment. The cooling power of the process is experimentally estimated with a view to possible technical applications. The results for Gd2Ti2O7 are compared to those for Gd3Ga5O12, a well-known material for low temperature magnetic refrigeration.
Balakrishnan Ganesh
Berkutov I. B.
Golov A. I.
Petrenko Oleg A.
Prozorova L. A.
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