Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2009-04-11
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Phys. Rev. B (Rapid Communications), in press
Scientific paper
We report that the major features in the temperature dependence of dc and ac magnetization of a well-known spin-chain compound, Ca3Co2O6, which has been known to exhibit two complex magnetic transitions due to geometrical frustration (one near 24 K and the other near 10 K), are found to be qualitatively unaffected in its nano form synthesized by high-energy ball-milling. However, the multiple steps in isothermal magnetization - a topic of current interest in low-dimensional systems - known for the bulk form well below 10 K is absent in the nano particles. We believe that this finding will be useful to the understanding of the 'step' magnetization behavior of such spin-chain systems.
Chalke B. A.
Das Sitikantha D.
Iyer Kartik K.
Mohapatra Niharika
Purandare S. C.
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