Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2011-11-28
J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 22 (2010) 295603
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
The magnetic behavior of the quaternary compounds, RCr2Si2C (R = La, Ce), has been investigated by magnetization (M) and heat-capacity (C) measurements (1.8-300 K) in the bulk polycrystals and nano forms (<1 {\mu}m) obtained by high-energy balling. Our finding is that Cr appears to exhibit magnetic ordering of an itinerant type at low temperatures (<20 K) in the bulk form, as inferred from a combined look at all the data. The magnetic ordering gets gradually suppressed with increasing milling time. Evidence for a mixed-valence state of Ce for the bulk form is obtained from the tendency of magnetic susceptibility to exhibit a maximum above 300 K. However, this feature vanishes in the nano form, which exhibits a Curie-Weiss behavior above 200 K as though Ce tends towards trivalency in these fine particles; in addition, there is a weak upturn in C/T below 10 K in the bulk, which becomes very prominent in the milled Ce-based specimens at lower temperatures, as though heavy-fermion behavior gets stronger in smaller particles.
Iyer Kartik K.
Mukherjee Kaustav
Sampathkumaran E. V.
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