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Published on: June 7, 2018
Signatures of a quantum Griffiths phase in a d-metal alloy close to its ferromagnetic quantum critical point
Almut Schroeder1, Sara Ubaid-Kassis, Thomas Vojta
1Department of Physics, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA.
Abstract:
We report magnetization measurements close to the ferromagnetic quantum phase transition of the d-metal alloy Ni(1 - x)V(x) at a vanadium concentration of x(c)≈11.4%. In the diluted regime (x > x(c)), the temperature (T) and magnetic field (H) dependences of the magnetization are characterized by nonuniversal power laws and display H/T scaling in a wide temperature and field range. The exponents vary strongly with x and follow the predictions of a quantum Griffiths phase. We also discuss the deviations and limits of the quantum Griffiths phase as well as the phase boundaries due to bulk and cluster physics.
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