Perturbed angular correlation study of the magnetic phase transitions in the rare-earth cobalt Laves phases RCo₂

The order and other properties of the magnetic phase transitions in the rare-earth (R)-cobalt Laves phases RCo₂ have been studied for R=Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Sm, Nd, and Pr by measuring the temperature dependence of the magnetic hyperfine interaction of the nuclear probe ¹¹¹Cd on the cubic R sites usi...

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Autores principales: Forker, M., Müller, Stefan, Presa, P. de la, Pasquevich, Alberto Felipe
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Publicado: 2003
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Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/134056
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topic Física
Magnetic phase boundaries
Effects of internal magnetic fields
Mössbauer effect; other γ-ray spectroscopy
spellingShingle Física
Magnetic phase boundaries
Effects of internal magnetic fields
Mössbauer effect; other γ-ray spectroscopy
Forker, M.
Müller, Stefan
Presa, P. de la
Pasquevich, Alberto Felipe
Perturbed angular correlation study of the magnetic phase transitions in the rare-earth cobalt Laves phases RCo₂
topic_facet Física
Magnetic phase boundaries
Effects of internal magnetic fields
Mössbauer effect; other γ-ray spectroscopy
description The order and other properties of the magnetic phase transitions in the rare-earth (R)-cobalt Laves phases RCo₂ have been studied for R=Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Sm, Nd, and Pr by measuring the temperature dependence of the magnetic hyperfine interaction of the nuclear probe ¹¹¹Cd on the cubic R sites using the perturbed angular correlation technique. Both for heavy and light R constituents the transitions change from second order (Gd, Tb, Sm) to first order (Dy, Ho, Er, Nd, Pr) at order temperatures of 150‐200 K. For heavy R constituents, the order deduced from the hyperfine interaction is in agreement with previous investigations. The observation of first order transitions in NdCo₂ and PrCo₂, however, is unexpected. In earlier studies the transitions in these compounds are usually classified as second order transitions. Both in the heavy and the light RCo₂ the discontinuous jump of the hyperfine interaction at the first order transitions increases with decreasing order temperature. This trend implies that the Co magnetization at the transition increases with decreasing T<sub>C</sub> which can be related to the temperature dependence of the coefficient of the M⁴ term of the free energy in the Wohlfarth-Rhodes-Shimizu theory of itinerant electron magnetism. All compounds investigated presented a spread of the order temperature of ∼ 1–2 K which results in a coexistence of the paramagnetic and the magnetically ordered phase near the transition and causes a critical increase of the relative linewidth of the hyperfine frequency diverging as δ∝(1–T/T<sub>C</sub>)<sup>ε</sup> with ε = –1.0(1).
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Articulo
author Forker, M.
Müller, Stefan
Presa, P. de la
Pasquevich, Alberto Felipe
author_facet Forker, M.
Müller, Stefan
Presa, P. de la
Pasquevich, Alberto Felipe
author_sort Forker, M.
title Perturbed angular correlation study of the magnetic phase transitions in the rare-earth cobalt Laves phases RCo₂
title_short Perturbed angular correlation study of the magnetic phase transitions in the rare-earth cobalt Laves phases RCo₂
title_full Perturbed angular correlation study of the magnetic phase transitions in the rare-earth cobalt Laves phases RCo₂
title_fullStr Perturbed angular correlation study of the magnetic phase transitions in the rare-earth cobalt Laves phases RCo₂
title_full_unstemmed Perturbed angular correlation study of the magnetic phase transitions in the rare-earth cobalt Laves phases RCo₂
title_sort perturbed angular correlation study of the magnetic phase transitions in the rare-earth cobalt laves phases rco₂
publishDate 2003
url http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/134056
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