ArXiv · 2026
Fe₃GeTe₂ is a quasi-two-dimensional itinerant ferromagnet with a van-der-Waals layered structure that exhibits substantial magnetic anisotropy. In bulk samples, this material becomes magnetically ordered below 220 K, while in thin samples, the gate-tunability of the ferromagnetic moment has attracted significant interest. Alongside high-temperature ferromagnetism, a low-temperature magnetic state occurs whose nature has not been conclusively identified, with some studies suggesting a transition between ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism with temperature. Here we present magnetometry and μSR data that demonstrate that Fe₃GeTe₂ exhibits three-dimenional Ising-like ferromagnetism over the entire temperature range between T_C=220~K and 2 K. The feature at 170 K that has previously been proposed to be a transition to antiferromagnetism is instead likely to represent a domain-freezing transition.
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