The pressure dependence of the ferromagnetic-paramagnetic phase transition temperature T C (p) is of high interest due to its direct technological implications. The theoretical investigations of the Curie temperature T C (p) considered in the ferromagnetic crystals have been studied employing various methods of calculations. The present paper is devoted to its description by means of the pseudoharmonic approximation approach.PACS numbers: 75.30. Kz, 75.50.Cc, 81.40.Vw, 64.30.Ef
IntroductionThe present paper deals with the pressure influence on the Curie temperature in ferromagnets whose effective potential of the lattice is described by the modified Morse potential U (R r − R r ) given in terms of pseudoharmonic approximations [1]. The pressure p is applied in the form of isotropic (hydrostatic) external force to the whole sample and scaled with respect to the normal (atmospheric) pressure p 0 (p 0 = 1.0135 × 10 −4 GPa). Magnetic properties are discussed at the level of the localized spins model. The magnetic moments are situated in the lattice sites whose distance expands or compresses due to the thermal vibrations or the pressure compression. The exchange integral J(R r − R r ) as well as the potential U (R r − R r ) change their values due to the distance R r − R r = R between two localized spins where R is the equilibrium position at a given temperature T under a given pressure p:We assume that the Curie temperature is proportional to the exchange integral J(R) calculated by means of the effective distance between two localized spins situated at r and r . The pressure effect is introduced then by the equation of state R = R(p, T C (p)). The shape of the relation J = J(R) is determined by the analogy to the case when we consider the random distribution of exchange integrals for the samples with the amorphous structure [2].In the methodological context the paper is a continuation of the melting temperature T m (p) calculations [3] while the essential problem is connected with the considerations concerning the Curie temperature and its dependence on the pressure [4,5].