Disorder-induced critical phenomena in magnetically glassy Cu-Al-Mn alloys

Measurements of magnetic hysteresis loops in Cu-Al-Mn alloys of different Mn content at low temperatures are presented. The loops are smooth and continuous above a certain temperature, but exhibit a magnetization discontinuity below that temperature. Scaling analysis suggest that this system display...

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Autores: Marcos, Jordi, Vives i Santa-Eulàlia, Eduard, Mañosa, Lluís, Acet, Mehmet, Duman, Eyüp, Morin, Michel, Novák, Václav, Planes Vila, Antoni
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2003
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
OAI Identifier:oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/10539
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/10539
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Histèresi
Transformacions de fase (Física estadística)
Aliatges
Fenòmens crítics (Física)
Materials magnètics
Hysteresis
Phase transformations (Statistical physics)
Alloys
Critical phenomena (Physics)
Magnetic materials
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Sumario:Measurements of magnetic hysteresis loops in Cu-Al-Mn alloys of different Mn content at low temperatures are presented. The loops are smooth and continuous above a certain temperature, but exhibit a magnetization discontinuity below that temperature. Scaling analysis suggest that this system displays a disorder-induced phase transition line. Measurements allow one to determine the critical exponents ß=0.03±0.01 and ß¿=0.4±0.1, which coincide with those reported recently in a different system, thus supporting the existence of universality for disorder-induced critical points.