Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2008-03-24
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
10 pages, 12 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.78.035101
We present experimental results on thermoelectric power ({\em S}) and electrical resistivity ($\rho $) of pseudobinary alloys Ho(Al$_x$Co$_{1-x}$)$_2$ ($0 \leq x \leq 0.1 $), in the temperature range 4.2 K to 300 K. The work focuses on the effects of static (induced by alloying) and dynamic (induced by temperature) disorder on the magnetic state and electronic transport in a metallic system with itinerant metamagnetic instability. Spatial fluctuations of the local magnetic susceptibility in the alloys lead to a development of a partially ordered magnetic ground state of the itinerant 3d electron system. This results in a strong increase of the residual resistivity and a suppression of the temperature-dependent resistivity. Thermopower exhibits a complex temperature variation in both the magnetically ordered and in the paramagnetic state. This complex temperature variation is referred to the electronic density of states features in vicinity of Fermi energy and to the interplay of magnetic and impurity scattering. Our results indicate that the magnetic enhancement of the Co 3d-band in RCo$_{\rm 2}$--based alloys upon a substitution of Co by non-magnetic elements is mainly related to a progressive localization of the Co -- 3d electrons caused by disorder. We show that the magnitude of the resistivity jump at the Curie temperature for RCo$_{\rm 2}$ compounds exhibiting a first order phase transition is a non-monotonic function of the Curie temperature due to a saturation of the 3d--band spin fluctuation magnitude at high temperatures.
Bauer Eckhard
Burkov A. T.
Gratz E.
Nakama Take
Resel R.
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