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Rotating magnetocaloric effect in the ferromagnetic Weyl semi-metal Co$_{3}$Sn$_{2}$S$_{2}$

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2019-10-21 v1 Materials Science

Abstract

The rotating magnetocaloric effect (RMCE) is a recent interest in magnetic refrigeration technique in which the cooling effect is attained by rotating the anisotropic magnetocaloric material from one orientation to the other in a fixed magnetic field. In this work, we report the anisotropic magnetocaloric properties of single crystals of the ferromagnetic Weyl semimetal Co3_{3}Sn2_{2}S2_{2} for magnetic field HcH\parallel c axis and HabH\parallel ab plane. We observed a significant (factor of 22) difference between the magnetocaloric effect measured in both orientations. The rotating magnetocaloric effect has been extracted by taking the difference of the magnetic entropy change (ΔSM\Delta S_{M}) for fields applied in the two crystallographic orientations. In a scaling analysis of ΔSM\Delta S_{M}, the rescaled ΔSM(T,H)\Delta S_{M}(T,H) vs reduced temperature θ\theta curves collapse onto a single universal curve, indicating that the transition from paramagnetic to ferromagnetic phase at 174~K is a second order transition. Furthermore, using the power law dependence of ΔSM\Delta S_{M} and relative cooling power RCP, the critical exponents β\beta and γ\gamma are calculated, which are consistent with the recent critical behavior study on this compound \cite{Yan2018}.

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@article{arxiv.1907.03317,
  title  = {Rotating magnetocaloric effect in the ferromagnetic Weyl semi-metal Co$_{3}$Sn$_{2}$S$_{2}$},
  author = {Anzar Ali and Shama and Yogesh Singh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.03317},
  year   = {2019}
}

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5 pages, 5 figures