The Condon domain phase diagram for beryllium is determined in magnetic fields up to 10 T and at temperatures down to 1.3 K using a standard ac pick-up coil method to measure the de Haas-van Alphen (dHvA) effect. The detection of the transition point from the homogeneous state to the Condon domain state (CDS) is based on the extremely non-linear response to the modulation field resulting from a small irreversibility in the dHvA magnetization. The experimental results are compared with theoretical predictions calculated from the Fermi surface (FS) of beryllium. The width h_m of the hysteresis loop in the CDS is measured in a wide temperature and field region. A model for the hysteresis size is proposed and numerically calculated for the whole phase diagram.
@article{arxiv.1005.2047,
title = {Condon Domain Phase Diagram and Hysteresis Size for Beryllium},
author = {R. B. G. Kramer and V. S. Egorov and A. G. M. Jansen and W. Joss},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1005.2047},
year = {2012}
}