Tricritical point and the doping dependence of the order of the ferromagnetic phase transition of La1-xCaxMnO3

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 22, 2002, Pages 2272021-2272024

  Kim, D ^a   Revaz, B ^a   Zink, B L ^a   Hellman, F ^a   Rhyne, J J ^b   Mitchell, J F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOSSAL MAGNETORESISTANCE; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ENTROPY; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; GIBBS FREE ENERGY; GROUND STATE; MAGNETIZATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SPECIFIC HEAT; STOICHIOMETRY; THERMAL EXPANSION; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

TRICRITICAL POINTS;

LANTHANUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 0037175916     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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