Instabilities in 2D itinerant ferromagnets

Dmitri Efremov

Technical University Dresden, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Dresden, Germany

We consider an ordered ferromagnet in the vicinity of a T=0 transition into a paramagnet. We show that the free energy and the transverse and longitudinal static susceptibilities contain non-analyticities which prevent a continuous second-order transition and lead to different instabilities. Depending on the parameters, the transition either becomes first-order, or occurs via an intermediate spiral phase.

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