Efeitos magnetocalórico e barocalórico em compostos com transição de fase de primeira ordem

• Autor(a) principal: Santana, Rafael Pereira
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/12843
• topic: Magnetocaloric effect; Barocaloric effect; Localized magnetic moments; Spin Hamiltonian; Efeito magnetocalórico; Efeito barocalórico; Momentos magnéticos locais; Hamiltoniano de spins; CNPQ::CIENCIAS EXATAS E DA TERRA::FISICA::FISICA DA MATERIA CONDENSADA

In this thesis we systematically discuss the magnetocaloric and barocaloric effects in physical systems, whose magnetism has a localized character and undergo both second and first order phase transitions. For this purpose, we use a model of interacting localized magnetic moments, including the magnetoelastic coupling. Our calculations show that the ratio between the exchange and magnetoelastic parameters is responsible for the appearance of the first order transition and consequently the thermal and magnetic hysteresis. Our calculations also show that the magnetocaloric quantities exhibit large values when the system undergoes a first order transition. Furthermore, when the hysteresis is not negligible, the magnetocaloric quantities depend on the heating and cooling processes. As far as the barocaloric effect is concerned, our calculations show that the normal barocaloric effect occurs (the system heat up with increasing applied pressure) when the applied pressure increases the magnetic ordering temperature without changing the order of the magnetic phase transition. On the other hand, the inverse barocaloric effect (the system cools down with increasing applied pressure) occurs when the applied pressure reduces the magnetic ordering temperature without changing the order of the magnetic phase transition. Finally, our calculations show that an anomalous barocaloric effect (i.e., change of sign in the barocaloric quantities) occurs in special cases when the applied pressure change the nature of the magnetic phase transition from first to second order and vice-versa.