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Powder magnetite was analyzed in situ via Mössbauer with temperatures ranging from 170 K up to 900 K. Hyperfine fields of the tetrahedral and octahedral sites of magnetite as well as the corresponding average field were followed as a function of temperature in order to elucidate the critical behavior of magnetite at around the Curie temperature. Results evidence a progressive collapse of the Mössbauer spectra onto a singlet-type line at a critical temperature of around 870 K characterized by a critical exponent β = 0.28(2) for the hyperfine field. In order to describe such temperature dependence of the hyperfine field, a Monte Carlo-Metropolis simulation based on a stoichiometric magnetite and an Ising model with nearest magnetic neighbor interactions was also carried out. In the model, we have taken into account antiferromagnetic and ferromagnetic interactions depending on the involved ions. A discussion about the critical behavior of magnetite and a comparison between the hyperfine field obtained via Mössbauer and the magnetization obtained via Monte Carlo is finally presented.
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Florez, J.M., Mazo-Zuluaga, J. & Restrepo, J. Ferrimagnetic to Paramagnetic Transition in Magnetite: Mössbauer versus Monte Carlo. Hyperfine Interact 161, 161–169 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10751-005-9178-0
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