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Spin dynamics and spin freezing at ferromagnetic quantum phase transitions

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We report selected experimental results on the spin dynamics and spin freezing at ferromagnetic quantum phase transitions to illustrate some of the most prominent escape routes by which ferromagnetic quantum criticality is avoided in real materials. In the transition metal Heusler compound Fe2TiSn we observe evidence for incipient ferromagnetic quantum criticality. High pressure studies in MnSi reveal empirical evidence for a topological non-Fermi liquid state without quantum criticality. Single crystals of the hexagonal Laves phase compound Nb1−y Fe2+y provide evidence of a ferromagnetic to spin density wave transition as a function of slight compositional changes. Last but not least, neutron depolarisation imaging in CePd1−x Rh x underscore evidence taken from the bulk properties of the formation of a Kondo cluster glass.

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  1. Physik-Department, Technische Universität München, 85748, Garching, Germany

    P. Schmakat, M. Wagner, R. Ritz, A. Bauer, C. Duvinage, C. Franz, M. Hirschberger, A. Neubauer, M. Schulz, P. Böni & C. Pfleiderer

  2. Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum, Technische Universität München, 85748, Garching, Germany

    P. Schmakat, C. Franz, K. Hradil, M. Schulz, A. Senyshyn & B. Pedersen

  3. Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, 01187, Dresden, Germany

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  4. Department of Physics, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, TW20 0EX, UK

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  5. Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0HE, UK

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  6. Departments of Physics and Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA

    M. Hirschberger

  7. Röntgenzentrum, Technische Universität Wien, 1060, Vienna, Austria

    K. Hradil

  8. RWTH Aachen, Institut für Kristallographie and Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, JCNS at Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum, 85748, Garching, Germany

    M. Meven

  9. Institute of Condensed Matter Physics, Technische Universität Braunschweig, 38106, Braunschweig, Germany

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Schmakat, P., Wagner, M., Ritz, R. et al. Spin dynamics and spin freezing at ferromagnetic quantum phase transitions. Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top. 224, 1041–1060 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2015-02445-4

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