An anomalous butterfly-shaped magnetoresistance loop in an alloy, Tb4LuSi3

Details An anomalous butterfly-shaped magnetoresistance loop in an alloy, Tb4LuSi3 An anomalous butterfly-shaped magnetoresistance loop in an alloy, Tb4LuSi3

2010-01-27

arxiv.org/abs/1001.4942v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

Submitted for publication on 16 Dec 2009

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Magnetic-field (H) induced first-order magnetic transition and the assiciated electronic phase-separation phenomena are active topics of research in magnetism. Magnetoresistance (MR) is a key property to probe these phenomena and, in literature, a butterfly-shaped MR loop has been noted while cycling the field, with the envelope curve lying below the virgin curve in MR versus H plots of such materials. Here, we report an opposite behavior of MR loop for an alloy, Tb4LuSi3, at low temperatures (<<20 K) in the magnetically ordered state. Such an anomalous curve reveals unexpected domination of higher resistive high-field phase in electronic conduction, unlike in other materials where conducion is naturally by low-resistive high-field phase that follows first-order transition. The observed features reveal an unusual electronic phase separation, namely involving high-resistive high-field phase and low-resistive virgin phase.

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