Magnetocaloric effect and magnetic cooling near a field-induced quantum-critical point

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 6862-6866

  Wolf, Bernd ^a   Tsui, Yeekin ^a,e   Jaiswal Nagar, Deepshikha ^a   Tutsch, Ulrich ^a   Honecker, Andreas ^b   Remović Langer, Katarina ^a   Hofmann, Georg ^a   Prokofiev, Andrey ^c   Assmus, Wolf ^a   Donath, Guido ^d   Lang, Michael ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL PHYSICS OF SOLIDS   (Germany)

^e DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Low dimensional spin systems; Magnetothermal effect; Quantum criticality; Quantum magnetism

Indexed keywords

POLYMER;

ARTICLE; COOLING; ENTROPY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETISM; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 79954486053     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1017047108     Document Type: Article

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