Distinguishing local moment versus itinerant ferromagnets: Dynamic magnetic susceptibility

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2008-01-01
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Vannette, Matthew
Bud'ko, Sergey
Prozorov, Ruslan
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Radio-frequency measurements of dynamic magnetic susceptibility of various ferromagnets show striking differences between local-moment ferromagnetism (LFM) and weak itinerant ferromagnetism (IFM) ferromagnetic systems. LFMs show a very sharp peak in susceptibility in the vicinity of the Curie temperatureTC that rapidly decreases in amplitude and shifts to higher temperature with the application of a weak dc bias field. In stark contrast, the generally accepted IFM systems show no peak, but rather a broad maximum well below TC. The temperature of this maximum shifts to lower values and the amplitude is suppressed with an applied dc field.

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The following article appeared in Journal of Applied Physics (2008): 07D302 and may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2832349.

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