title: Critical behavior of the quasi-two-dimensional semiconducting ferromagnet CrSiTe3.
abstract: The semiconducting ferromagnet CrSiTe3 is a promising candidate for two-dimensional magnet simply by exfoliating down to single layers. To understand the magnetic behavior in thin-film samples and the possible applications, it is necessary to establish the nature of the magnetism in the bulk. In this work, the critical behavior at the paramagnetic to ferromagnetic phase transition in single-crystalline CrSiTe3 is investigated by bulk magnetization measurements. We have obtained the critical exponents (β = 0.170 ± 0.008, γ = 1.532 ± 0.001, and δ = 9.917 ± 0.008) and the critical temperature TC = 31.0 K using various techniques such as modified Arrott plot, Kouvel-Fisher plot, and critical isotherm analysis. Our analysis suggests that the determined exponents match well with those calculated from the results of renormalization group approach for a two-dimensional Ising model coupled with long-range interaction.
authors.affiliation: High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, Anhui 230031, China.|University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China.
authors.forename: Bingjie
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, Anhui 230031, China.
authors.forename: Youming
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zou
authors.affiliation: High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, Anhui 230031, China.
authors.forename: Lei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China.
authors.forename: Shiming
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.affiliation: High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, Anhui 230031, China.|University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China.
authors.forename: Zhe
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, Anhui 230031, China.
authors.forename: Weike
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, Anhui 230031, China.
authors.forename: Zhe
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Qu
authors.affiliation: High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, Anhui 230031, China.|Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China.
authors.forename: Yuheng
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang