Weakly first-order or nearly second-order phase transitions occurring in metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), particularly in DMAKCr and perovskite HyFe, are studied under the mean field model by using the observed data from the literature. In this work, mainly thermal and magnetic properties among various physical properties which have been reported in the literature for those MOFs are studied by the mean field theory. By expanding the free energy in terms of the magnetization (order parameter), the excess heat capacity ([Formula: see text]C[Formula: see text]) and entropy ([Formula: see text]S), latent heat (L), magnetization (M) and the inverse susceptibility ([Formula: see text]) are calculated as a function of temperature close to the weakly first-order phase transition within the Landau phenomenological model which is fitted to the experimental data from the literature for C[Formula: see text] (DMAKCr and perovskite HyFe) and for magnetization M (HyFe). Our predictions of the excess heat capacity ([Formula: see text]C[Formula: see text]) and entropy ([Formula: see text]S) agree below T[Formula: see text] with the observed data within the temperature intervals studied for DMAKCr and perovskite HyFe. From our predictions, we find that magnetization decreases continuously whereas the inverse susceptibility decreases linearly with increasing temperature toward the transition temperature in those MOFs as expected for a weakly first-order transition from the mean field model.
Topological signature of first-order phase transitions in a mean-field model