Magnetic Ordering and Superconductivity in the RE$_2$Ir$_3$Ge$_5$ (RE = Y, La-Tm, Lu) System

Details Magnetic Ordering and Superconductivity in the RE$_2$Ir$_3$Ge$_5$ (RE = Y, La-Tm, Lu) System Magnetic Ordering and Superconductivity in the RE$_2$Ir$_3$Ge$_5$ (RE = Y, La-Tm, Lu) System

2003-11-19

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311441v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

25 pages, 16 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.69.174423

We find that the compounds for RE = Y, La-Dy, crystallize in the tetragonal Ibam (U$_2$Co$_3$Si$_5$ type) structure whereas the compounds for RE = Er-Lu, crystallize in a new orthorhombic structure with a space group Pmmn. Samples of Ho$_2$Ir$_3$Ge$_5$ were always found to be multiphase. The compounds for RE = Y to Dy which adopt the Ibam type structure show a metallic resistivity whereas the compounds with RE = Er, Tm and Lu show an anomalous behavior in the resistivity with a semiconducting increase in $\rho$ as we go down in temperature from 300K. Interestingly we had earlier found a positive temperature coefficient of resistivity for the Yb sample in the same temperature range. We will compare this behavior with similar observations in the compounds RE$_3$Ru$_4$Ge$_{13}$ and REBiPt. La$_2$Ir$_3$Ge$_5$ and Y$_2$Ir$_3$Ge$_5$ show bulk superconductivity below 1.8K and 2.5K respectively. Our results confirm that Ce$_2$Ir$_3$Ge$_5$ shows a Kondo lattice behavior and undergoes antiferromagnetic ordering below 8.5K. Most of the other compounds containing magnetic rare-earth elements undergo a single antiferromagnetic transition at low temperatures (T$\leq$12K) while Gd$_2$Ir$_3$Ge$_5$, Dy$_2$Ir$_3$Ge$_5$ and Nd$_2$Ir$_3$Ge$_5$ show multiple transitions. The T$_N$'s for most of the compounds roughly scale with the de Gennes factor. which suggests that the chief mechanism of interaction leading to the magnetic ordering of the magnetic moments may be the RKKY interaction.

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