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Temperature variations of the amplitude of zero-point and thermal spin fluctuations in a helicoidal ferromagnetic (MnSi) are characterized using the electronic structure model that follows from ab initio LDA + U + SO calculations. It is found that a drastic reduction in the amplitude of zero-point spin fluctuations at temperature T S (in the vicinity of the magnetic phase transition) leads to ferromagnetic solution instability (a change in the sign of the intermode interaction parameter). The observed magnetovolume effect and a sharp change in the radius of spin correlations have the same underlying cause. The results of calculation of the volumetric coefficient of thermal expansion agree well with the observed anomaly in the region of the magnetic phase transition.
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Original Russian Text © A.A. Povzner, A.G. Volkov, T.A. Nogovitsyna, 2017, published in Fizika Tverdogo Tela, 2017, Vol. 59, No. 7, pp. 1261–1266.
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Povzner, A.A., Volkov, A.G. & Nogovitsyna, T.A. Electronic structure and magnetic phase transition in MnSi. Phys. Solid State 59, 1285–1290 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063783417070186
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