Peculiarities of the Magnetocaloric Effect in an Isotropic Antiferromagnet

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It is shown that the magnetocaloric effects are absent in the spin-flop phase of an isotropic antiferromagnet at the T<TN (TN the Neel temperature) and appear only when an applied magnetic field exceeds the critical field of the spin-flip transition. It is displayed as well that the direct magnetocaloric effects in an antiferromagnet above TN are much less that the analogous effects in a ferromagnet above the Curie point TC.

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Solid State Phenomena (Volume 215)

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66-70

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April 2014

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