Critical behavior and spontaneous magnetization estimation in La0.5Sr0.5MnO3 compound

Abstract We report the critical behavior in La 0.5 Sr 0.5 MnO 3 perovskite oxide manganite using methods including modified Arrott plot, Kouvel–Fisher plot, and critical isotherm analysis. By means of the above techniques around the ferromagnetic–paramagnetic (FM–PM) transition, the magnetic data analyzed shows the sample attending the second-order magnetic phase transition with the critical parameters β = 0.553±0.020 with T C =352.02±0.63 K (from the spontaneous magnetization M S (T) below T C ) and γ =1.169±0.058 with T C =352.49±0.85 K (from the inverse initial susceptibility χ 0 − 1 ( T ) above T C ). The exponent δ =3,216 independently obtained from the critical magnetization isotherm satisfies the Widom scaling relation δ = 1 + β / γ . Moreover, the critical exponents are in the theoretically expected values for mean-field interaction model rather than the other universal theory and also follow the single scaling equation of M ( H , e ) e − β = f ± ( H / e β + γ ) . Furthermore, to estimate the spontaneous magnetization of La 0.5 Sr 0.5 MnO 3 perovskite, we used the magnetic entropy change (−Δ S M ), obtained from isothermal magnetization. The results of this approach are compared to results obtained from classical analysis using Arrott curves.