Weak itinerant ferromagnetism in Heusler type Fe2VAl0.95

Details Weak itinerant ferromagnetism in Heusler type Fe2VAl0.95 Weak itinerant ferromagnetism in Heusler type Fe2VAl0.95

2010-11-26

arxiv.org/abs/1011.5704v1

Phys. Rev. B, 82, 104408 (2010)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

27 pages, 9 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.82.104408

We report measurements of the magnetic, transport and thermal properties of the Heusler type compound Fe2VAl0.95. We show that while stoichiometric Fe2VAl is a non-magnetic semi-metal a 5% substitution on the Al-site with the 3d elements Fe and V atoms leads to a ferromagnetic ground state with a Curie temperature TC = 33+-3 K and a small ordered moment ms = 0.12 mB/Fe in Fe2VAl0.95. The reduced value of the ratio ms/mp = 0.08, where mp = 1.4 mB/Fe is the effective Curie-Weiss moment, together with the analysis of the magnetization data M(H,T), show magnetism is of itinerant nature. The specific heat shows an unusual temperature variation at low temperatures with an enhanced Sommerfeld coefficient, g = 12 mJK-2mol-1. The resistivity, r(T), is metallic and follows a power law behavior r(T) = r0+AT^n with n = 1.5 below TC. With applying pressure, TC decreases with the rate of (1/TC)(dTC /dP) = -0.061 GPa-1. We conclude substitution on the Al-site with Fe and V atoms results in itinerant ferromagnetism with a low carrier density.

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