Quantum tricritical point in the temperature-pressure-magnetic field phase diagram of CeTiGe3

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2018-01-15
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Kaluarachchi, Udhara
Taufor, Valentin
Bud’ko, Sergey
Canfield, Paul
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We report the temperature-pressure-magnetic-field phase diagram of the ferromagnetic Kondo-lattice CeTiGe 3 determined by means of electrical resistivity measurements. Measurements up to ∼ 5.8 GPa reveal a rich phase diagram with multiple phase transitions. At ambient pressure, CeTiGe 3 orders ferromagnetically at T C = 14 K. Application of pressure suppresses T C , but a pressure-induced ferromagnetic quantum criticality is avoided by the appearance of two new successive transitions for p > 4.1 GPa that are probably antiferromagnetic in nature. These two transitions are suppressed under pressure, with the lower-temperature phase being fully suppressed above 5.3 GPa. The critical pressures for the presumed quantum phase transitions are p 1 ≅ 4.1 GPa and p 2 ≅ 5.3 GPa. Above 4.1 GPa, application of magnetic field shows a tricritical point evolving into a wing-structure phase with a quantum tricritical point at 2.8 T at 5.4 GPa, where the first-order antiferromagnetic-ferromagnetic transition changes into the second-order antiferromagnetic-ferromagnetic transition.

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