Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2006-09-10
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Appeared in JPCM (Letters) 18 (2006) L401
Scientific paper
10.1088/0953-8984/18/31/L03
The compound, Nd7Rh3, crystallizing in Th7Fe3-type hexagonal structure, has been shown recently by us to exhibit a signature of magnetic phase-coexistence phenomenon below 10 K after a field cycling, uncharacteristic of stoichiometric intermetallic compounds, bearing a relevance to the trends in the field of electronic phase-separation. In order to characterize this compound further, we have carried out dc magnetic susceptibility (chi), electrical resistivity, magnetoresistance and heat-capacity measurements as a function temperature (T= 1.8 to 300 K). The results reveal that this compound exhibits another unusual finding at the 10K-transition in the sense that the plot of chi(T) shows a sharp increase in the field-cooled cycle, whereas the zero-field-cooled curve shows a downturn below the transition. In addition, the sign of magnetoresistance is negative and the magnitude is large over a wide temperature range in the vicinity of magnetic ordering temperature, with a sharp variation at 10 K. The results indicate that the transition below 10 K is first-order in its character.
Sampathkumaran E. V.
Sengupta Kausik
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