{
  "id": "cond-mat/9812420",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "1998-12-30T00:20:30.000Z",
  "updated": "1999-08-31T01:34:34.000Z",
  "title": "First order transitions and multicritical points in weak itinerant ferromagnets",
  "authors": [
    "D. Belitz",
    "T. R. Kirkpatrick",
    "Thomas Vojta"
  ],
  "comment": "4 pp., REVTeX, epsf, 3 eps figs, final version as published",
  "journal": "Phys. Rev. Lett. vol. 82, pp. 4707-4710 (1999)",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.4707",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "cond-mat.str-el"
  ],
  "abstract": "It is shown that the phase transition in low-T_c clean itinerant ferromagnets is generically of first order, due to correlation effects that lead to a nonanalytic term in the free energy. A tricritical point separates the line of first order transitions from Heisenberg critical behavior at higher temperatures. Sufficiently strong quenched disorder suppresses the first order transition via the appearance of a critical endpoint. A semi-quantitative discussion is given in terms of recent experiments on MnSi, and predictions for other experiments are made.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "1999-08-31T01:34:34.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "first order transition",
      "weak itinerant ferromagnets",
      "multicritical points",
      "sufficiently strong quenched disorder suppresses",
      "clean itinerant ferromagnets"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Phys. Rev. Lett."
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "RevTeX",
      "pages": 4,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}