Anomalous Scaling and Magnetization Temperature Dependence in Cubic Ferromagnetic Crystals

Recent developments in spintronics have drawn renewed attention to the spin dynamics of cubic ferromagnetic crystals EuO and EuS. These ferromagnets have the simplest possible magnetic structure, making them the most suitable systems for testing various theoretical models of magnetic materials. A commonly used Wess mean-field approximation (MFA) provides only a qualitative description of magnetization temperature dependence \(M(T)\). We develop a consistent theory for \(M(T)\), based on the perturbation diagrammatic technique for spin operators, leading to an excellent quantitative agreement with the experimental dependence of \(M(T)\) for EuO and EuS throughout the entire temperature range from \(T=0\) to Curie temperature \(T_C\). In particular, our theoretical dependence \(M(T)\) demonstrates an anomalous scaling behavior \(M(T) \propto (T_C-T)^\beta\) with the scaling index \(\beta \approx 1/3\) in a wide range of temperatures, in agreement with the experimentally observed scaling in EuO and EuS. This scaling index is principally different from the scaling index \(\beta = 1/2\) predicted by the MFA.