Torque magnetometry study of metamagnetic transitions in single-crystal HoNi2B2C at T\approx 1.9 K

Details Torque magnetometry study of metamagnetic transitions in single-crystal HoNi2B2C at T\approx 1.9 K Torque magnetometry study of metamagnetic transitions in single-crystal HoNi2B2C at T\approx 1.9 K

2007-11-04

arxiv.org/abs/0711.0533v1

Phys. Rev. B, 76 (2007) 224526

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

submitted to Phys. Rev. B, 12 pages, 12 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.76.224526

Metamagnetic transitions in single-crystal rare-earth nickel borocarbide HoNi$_2$B$_2$C have been studied at T\approx 1.9 K with a Quantum Design torque magnetometer. This compound is highly anisotropic with a variety of metamagnetic states at low temperature which includes antiferromagnetic, ferrimagnetic, non-collinear and ferromagnetic-like (saturated paramagnet) states. The critical fields of the transitions depend crucially on the angle $\theta$ between applied field and the easy axis [110]. Measurements of torque along the c-axis have been made while changing the angular direction of the magnetic field (parallel to basal tetragonal $ab$-planes) and with changing field at fixed angle over a wide angular range. Two new phase boundaries in the region of the non-collinear phase have been observed, and the direction of the magnetization in this phase has been precisely determined. At low field the antiferromagnetic phase is observed to be multidomain. In the angular range very close to the hard axis [100] ($-6^{\circ} \lesssim\phi \lesssim 6^{\circ}$, where $\phi$ is the angle between field and the hard axis) the magnetic behavior is found to be ``frustrated'' with a mixture of phases with different directions of the magnetization.

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