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TT: Tiefe Temperaturen

TT 25: Postersitzung III: Pinning und Vortexdynamik, Massive HTSL, Bandleiter, Transporteigenschaften in HTSL, SL dünner Filme, Elektronen und Phononen in HTSL, Tunneln, Borkarbide, Quantenphasen und Metall-Isolator-Überg
änge, Anwendungen, Sonstiges

TT 25.47: Poster

Thursday, March 29, 2001, 14:30–17:00, Rang S\ 3

The quantum phase transition of itinerant helimagnets — •Rastko Sknepnek and Thomas Vojta — Institut für Physik, TU Chemnitz, 09107 Chemnitz

We investigate the quantum phase transition of itinerant electrons from a paramagnet to a state which displays long-period helical structures due to a Dzyaloshinskii instability of the ferromagnetic state. In particular, we study how the self-generated effective long-range interaction recently identified in itinerant quantum ferromagnets is cut-off by the helical ordering. We find that for a sufficiently strong Dzyaloshinskii instability the helimagnetic quantum phase transition is of second order with mean-field exponents. In contrast, for a weak Dzyaloshinskii instability the transition is analogous to that in itinerant quantum ferromagnets, i.e. it is of first order, as has been observed in MnSi.