Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2010-03-25
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
7 pages, 5 figures, to be published in Phys. Rev. B
Scientific paper
We report neutron diffraction studies of TbCo$_2$Zn$_{20}$ and TbFe$_2$Zn$_{20}$, two isostructural compounds which exhibit dramatically different magnetic behavior. In the case of TbCo$_2$Zn$_{20}$, magnetic Bragg peaks corresponding to antiferromagnetic order are observed below $T_N$ $\approx$ 2.5 K with a propagation vector of (0.5 0.5 0.5). On the other hand, TbFe$_2$Zn$_{20}$ undergoes a ferromagnetic transition at temperatures as high as 66 K which shows a high sensitivity to sample-to-sample variations. Two samples of TbFe$_2$Zn$_{20}$ with the same nominal compositions but with substantially different magnetic ordering temperatures ($T_c$ $\approx$ 51 and 66 K) were measured by single crystal neutron diffraction. Structural refinements of the neutron diffraction data find no direct signature of atomic site disorder between the two TbFe$_2$Zn$_{20}$ samples except for subtle differences in the anisotropic thermal parameters. The differences in the anisotropic thermal parameters between the two samples is likely due to very small amounts of disorder. This provides further evidence for the extreme sensitivity of the magnetic properties of TbFe$_2$Zn$_{20}$ to small sample variations, even small amounts of disorder.
Bud'ko Sergey L.
Canfield Paul. C.
Christianson Andrew D.
Jia Suotang
Piccoli P. M. B.
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