arXiv · 1703.05651
Enhanced magnetocaloric effect due to selective dilution in a triangular Ising antiferromagnet
Abstract
We employ an effective-field theory with correlations in order to study a magnetocaloric effect on a triangular Ising antiferromagnet, which is selectively diluted by non-magnetic impurities on one of the three sublattices. Such a dilution generally relieves massive degeneracy in our system and therefore the ground-state entropy diminishes and the magnetocaloric effect weakens at low temperatures. However, at relatively higher temperatures we can observe significantly enhanced negative isothermal entropy changes for the sublattice concentration $p_{\mathrm{A}} = 0.8$.
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Michal Borovský, Milan Žukovič. 2017-03-16. Enhanced magnetocaloric effect due to selective dilution in a triangular Ising antiferromagnet. https://doi.org/10.12693/aphyspola.131.645
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