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1Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, United States of America.
Abstract:
Low temperature magnetization of CrI3, CrSiTe3and CrGeTe3single crystals were systematically studied. Based on the temperature dependence of extrapolated spontaneous magnetization from magnetic isotherms measured at different temperatures, the spin stiffness constant (D) and spin excitation gap (Δ) were extracted according to Bloch's law. For spin stiffness,Dis estimated to be 27 ± 6 meV Å2, 20 ± 3 meV Å2and 38 ± 7 meV Å2for CrI3, CrSiTe3and CrGeTe3respectively. Spin excitation gaps determined via Bloch's formulation have larger error bars yielding 0.59 ± 0.34 meV (CrI3), 0.37 ± 0.22 meV (CrSiTe3) and 0.28 ± 0.19 meV (CrGeTe3). Among all three studied compounds, larger spin stiffness value leads to higher ferromagnetic transition temperature.
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