Layer- and Field-Dependent Magnetic Order in 2D CrSBr Revealed by Pulsed Nanocalorimetry

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Understanding the evolution of magnetic order in the two-dimensional limit remains a central challenge in van der Waals magnets, where thermodynamic measurements are constrained by the femtogram-scale mass of exfoliated flakes. Here, microsecond pulse-heating nanocalorimetry is used to measure the heat capacity and magnetic entropy of CrSBr flakes down to the monolayer limit. The measurements reveal the entropy landscape associated with magnetic ordering, uncovering a decreasing interlayer transition temperature toward the monolayer limit and an entropy-derived effective moment per layer that increases with thickness toward the expected spin-only scale. Thermodynamic anomalies capture a crossover from bulk-like interlayer antiferromagnetism to a regime dominated by intralayer ferromagnetic correlations. A pronounced layer-parity effect further emerges, with odd-layer samples displaying an additional high-temperature contribution associated with uncompensated magnetic layers. Under in-plane magnetic fields applied along the easy axis, antiferromagnetic order is progressively suppressed, allowing extraction of a thickness-dependent characteristic suppression field reflecting weakened interlayer exchange coupling. Entropy analysis further reveals an extended regime of magnetic fluctuations persisting well above the interlayer ordering transition. Together, these results establish nanocalorimetry as a powerful thermodynamic probe of low-dimensional magnetism, providing direct access to magnetic entropy, exchange interactions, and dimensional crossover in atomically thin van der Waals magnets.

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@misc{gomeztorres2026layer,
  title = {{Layer- and Field-Dependent Magnetic Order in 2D CrSBr Revealed by Pulsed Nanocalorimetry}},
  author = {Hugo Gomez-Torres and Roop K. Mech and Alessandra Canetta and Llibertat Abad and Carles Navau and Daniel G. Chica and Xavier Roy and Pascal Gehring and Kenji Watanabe and Takashi Taniguchi and Aitor Lopeandia and Javier Rodriguez-Viejo},
  howpublished = {arXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2607.29395},
  eprint = {2607.29395},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.29395},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
}

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TY  - UNPB
TI  - Layer- and Field-Dependent Magnetic Order in 2D CrSBr Revealed by Pulsed Nanocalorimetry
AU  - Hugo Gomez-Torres
AU  - Roop K. Mech
AU  - Alessandra Canetta
AU  - Llibertat Abad
AU  - Carles Navau
AU  - Daniel G. Chica
AU  - Xavier Roy
AU  - Pascal Gehring
AU  - Kenji Watanabe
AU  - Takashi Taniguchi
AU  - Aitor Lopeandia
AU  - Javier Rodriguez-Viejo
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/09/11
PB  - arXiv
DO  - 10.48550/arxiv.2607.29395
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.29395
AB  - Understanding the evolution of magnetic order in the two-dimensional limit remains a central challenge in van der Waals magnets, where thermodynamic measurements are constrained by the femtogram-scale mass of exfoliated flakes. Here, microsecond pulse-heating nanocalorimetry is used to measure the heat capacity and magnetic entropy of CrSBr flakes down to the monolayer limit. The measurements reveal the entropy landscape associated with magnetic ordering, uncovering a decreasing interlayer transition temperature toward the monolayer limit and an entropy-derived effective moment per layer that increases with thickness toward the expected spin-only scale. Thermodynamic anomalies capture a crossover from bulk-like interlayer antiferromagnetism to a regime dominated by intralayer ferromagnetic correlations. A pronounced layer-parity effect further emerges, with odd-layer samples displaying an additional high-temperature contribution associated with uncompensated magnetic layers. Under in-plane magnetic fields applied along the easy axis, antiferromagnetic order is progressively suppressed, allowing extraction of a thickness-dependent characteristic suppression field reflecting weakened interlayer exchange coupling. Entropy analysis further reveals an extended regime of magnetic fluctuations persisting well above the interlayer ordering transition. Together, these results establish nanocalorimetry as a powerful thermodynamic probe of low-dimensional magnetism, providing direct access to magnetic entropy, exchange interactions, and dimensional crossover in atomically thin van der Waals magnets.
ER  -

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