Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2010-01-25
Phys. Rev. B 81, 024413 (2010)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.81.024413
In this paper, specific features of Sm magnetism in an intermetallic compound have been studied. For this purpose, a high-quality single crystal of SmPd2Al3 was grown and subjected to detailed measurements of specific heat, magnetization, ac susceptibility, and electrical resistivity with respect to temperature and a magnetic field applied along the principal crystallographic directions. SmPd2Al3 magnetism was found to be strongly anisotropic with the easy-magnetization direction along the c axis where the main magnetic features are concentrated. The a-axis response remains weak, paramagneticlike, even in the magnetically ordered state. Ferromagnetism with TC=12.4 K has been indicated by all the measured physical properties. At lower temperatures, three successive order-order phase transitions have been observed on the temperature dependence of the specific heat as three anomalies: at 3.4, 3.9, and 4.4 K, respectively. The low-temperature magnetization data can be understood within a scenario that considers the antiferromagnetic ground state as being gradually destroyed through a series of four metamagnetic transitions at 0.03, 0.35, 0.5, and 0.75 T, as detected in the 1.8 K magnetization data. The experimental data are discussed together with the results of electronic-structure and crystal-field calculations from first principles, which were performed as an important part of the study for comprehension and explanation of the observed behavior of the SmPd2Al3 compound.
Divis M.
Kratochvilova M.
Pospisil Jan
Prokleska Jan
Sechovsky Vladimir
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