Phase diagram of diluted Ising ferromagnet LiHoxY1-xF4
We present a systematic study of the phase diagram of LiHoxY1-xF4 (0.25 <= x <= 1) Ising ferromagnets obtained from neutron scattering measurements and mean-field calculations. We show that while the thermal phase transition decreases linearly with dilution, as predicted by mean-field theory, the critical transverse field at the quantum critical point is suppressed much faster. This behavior is related to competition between off-diagonal dipolar coupling and quantum fluctuations that are tuned by doping and applied field, respectively. In this paper, we quantify the deviation of the experimental results from mean-field predictions, with the aim that this analysis can be used in future theoretical efforts towards a quantitative description.
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Babkevich, P., Nikseresht, N., Kovacevic, I., Piatek, J. O., Dalla Piazza, B., Kraemer, C., Kramer, K. W., Prokes, K., Mat’As, S., Jensen, J., & Rønnow, H. M. (2016). Phase diagram of diluted Ising ferromagnet LiHoxY1-xF4. Physical Review B, 94(17), Article 174443. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.94.174443
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