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Towards the theory of ferrimagnetism II

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2009-05-08 v1 Materials Science

Abstract

The present paper is a sequel to the paper by Karchev (2008 J.Phys.:Condens.Matter {\bf 20} 325219). A two-sublattice ferrimagnet, with spin-s1s_1 operators S1i\bf{S_{1i}} at the sublattice AA site and spin-s2s_2 operators S2i\bf{S_{2i}} at the sublattice BB site, is considered. Renormalized spin-wave theory, which accounts for the magnon-magnon interaction, and its extension are developed to describe the two ferrimagnetic phases (0,T)(0,T^*) and (T,TN)(T^*,T_N) in the system, and to calculate the magnetization as a function of temperature. The influence of the parameters in the theory on the characteristic temperatures TNT_N and TT^* is studied. It is shown that, increasing the inter-sublattice exchange interaction, the ratio TN/T>1T_N/T^*>1 decreases approaching one, and above some critical value of the exchange constant there is only one phase TN=TT_N = T^*, and the magnetization-temperature curve has the typical Curie-Weiss profile. When the intra-exchange constant of sublattice with stronger intra-exchange interaction increases the NeeˋlNe\grave{e}l temperature increases while TT^* remains unchanged. Finally, when the magnetic order of the sublattice with smaller magnetic order decreases, TT^* decreases. The theoretical predictions are utilize to interpret the experimentally measured magnetization-temperature curves.

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@article{arxiv.0905.1036,
  title  = {Towards the theory of ferrimagnetism II},
  author = {Naoum Karchev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0905.1036},
  year   = {2009}
}

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10 pages, 9 figures