Critical Behavior near the Ferromagnetic to Paramagnetic Phase Transition in Y8Co62B30 Amorphous Alloy |
| Z. Śniadeckia, J. Marcin b and B. Idzikowski a
aInstitute of Molecular Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, M. Smoluchowskiego 17, 60-179 Poznań, Poland bInstitute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Watsonova 47, 040 01 Košice, Slovakia |
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| The Y8Co62B30 amorphous alloy is a collinear ferromagnet. The Arrott plot, the Kouvel-Fisher method, critical isotherm analysis and magnetic field dependence of maximum magnetic entropy changes were the main analytical tools used to determine the nature of the ferromagnetic/paramagnetic phase transition. Values of critical exponents (β, γ, and δ) were calculated and were convergent with those characteristic for mean-field model. It suggests that long range ferromagnetic interactions are playing main role in investigated alloy and the phase transition was confirmed to be of a second order according to the Banerjee criterion. |
DOI: 10.12693/APhysPolA.131.967 PACS numbers: 75.40.Cx, 75.50.Kj, 75.30.Sg |