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- Sangeetha, N. S., et al.
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Antiferromagnetism in semiconducting SrMn2Sb2 and BaMn2Sb2 single crystals
- 2018
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Ingår i: Physical Review B. - 2469-9950 .- 2469-9969. ; 97:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Crystals of SrMn2Sb2 and BaMn2Sb2 were grown using Sn flux and characterized by powder and single-crystal x-ray diffraction, respectively, and by single-crystal electrical resistivity rho, heat capacity C-p, and magnetic susceptibility chi measurements versus temperature T, and magnetization versus field M(H) isotherm measurements. SrMn2Sb2 adopts the trigonal CaAl2Si2-type structure whereas BaMn2Sb2 crystallizes in the tetragonal ThCr2Si2-type structure. The rho(T) data indicate semiconducting behaviors for both compounds with activation energies of greater than or similar to 0.35 eV for SrMn2Sb2 and 0.16 eV for BaMn2Sb2. The chi(T) and C-p(T) data reveal antiferromagnetic (AFM) ordering at T-N = 110 K for SrMn2Sb2 and 450 K for BaMn2Sb2. The anisotropic chi(T <= T-N) data also show that the ordered moments in SrMn2Sb2 are aligned in the hexagonal ab plane whereas the ordered moments in BaMn2Sb2 are aligned collinearly along the tetragonal c axis. The ab-plane M(H) data for SrMn2Sb2 exhibit a continuous metamagnetic transition at low fields 0 < H less than or similar to 1 T, whereas BaMn2Sb2 exhibits no metamagnetic transitions up to 5.5 T. The chi(T) and C-p(T) data for SrMn2Sb2 and BaMn2Sb2 indicate strong dynamic short-range AFM correlations above their respective TN up to at least 900 K within a local-moment picture, corresponding to quasi-two-dimensional magnetic behavior. The present results and a survey of the literature for Mn pnictides with the CaAl2Si2 and ThCr2Si2 crystal structures show that the T-N values for the CaAl2Si2-type compounds are much smaller than those for the ThCr2Si2-type materials.
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- Sangeetha, N. S., et al.
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Enhanced moments of Eu in single crystals of the metallic helical antiferromagnet EuCo2-yAs2
- 2018
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Ingår i: Physical Review B. - 2469-9950 .- 2469-9969. ; 97:14
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The compound EuCo2-yAs2 with the tetragonal ThCr2Si2 structure is known to contain Eu+2 ions with spin S = 7/2 that order below a temperature T-N approximate to 47 K into an antiferromagnetic (AFM) proper helical structure with the ordered moments aligned in the tetragonal ab plane, perpendicular to the helix axis along the c axis, with no contribution from the Co atoms. Here we carry out a detailed investigation of the properties of single crystals. We consistently find about 5% vacancies on the Co site from energy-dispersive x-ray analysis and x-ray diffraction refinements. Enhanced ordered and effective moments of the Eu spins are found in most of our crystals. Electronic structure calculations indicate that the enhanced moments arise from polarization of the d bands, as occurs in ferromagnetic Gd metal. Electrical resistivity measurements indicate metallic behavior. The low-field in-plane magnetic susceptibilities x(ab) (T < T-N) for several crystals are reported that are fitted well by unified molecular field theory (MFT), and the Eu-Eu exchange interactions J(ij) are extracted from the fits. High-field magnetization M data for magnetic fields H parallel to ab reveal what appears to be a first-order spin-flop transition followed at higher field by a second-order metamagnetic transition of unknown origin, and then by another second-order transition to the paramagnetic (PM) state. For H parallel to c, the magnetization shows only a second-order transition from the canted AFM to the PM state, as expected. The critical fields for the AFM to PM transition are in approximate agreement with the predictions of MFT. Heat capacity C-p measurements in zero and high H are reported. Phase diagrams for H parallel to c and H parallel to ab versus T are constructed from the high-field M(H, T) and C-p(H, T) measurements. The magnetic part C-mag(T, H = 0) of C-p(T, H = 0) is extracted and is fitted rather well below T-N by MFT, although dynamic short-range AFM order is apparent in Cmag(T) up to about 70 K, where the molar entropy attains its high-T limit of R ln 8.
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