Ho2AlFe14Mn2化合物的负热膨胀性质

利用x射线衍射及磁测量手段研究了Ho2AlFe16-xMnx系列化合物的结构.结果表明，该系列化合物具有Th2Ni17型结构；随着x的增加，化合物的单胞体积呈现非线性的变化，结合磁测量结果分析认为，在化合物的磁相变点附近存在较大的正的本征磁致伸缩.在160—285K温度范围内对Ho2AlFe14Mn2化合物进行的变温x射线衍射研究表明，该化合物在其居里点附近(220—270K)具有负热膨胀性质，其平均热膨胀系数为-14×10-4/K. 关键词： Ho2AlFe16-xMnx化合物 负热膨胀 本征磁致伸缩     

Origin of the large polarization in multiferroic YMnO3 thin films revealed by soft- and hard-X-ray diffraction

We investigated the magnetic structure of an orthorhombic YMnO(3) thin film by resonant soft x-ray and hard x-ray diffraction. We observed a temperature-dependent incommensurate magnetic reflection below 45 K and a commensurate lattice-distortion reflection below 35 K. These results demonstrate that the ground state is composed of coexisting E-type and cycloidal states. Their different ordering temperatures clarify the origin of the large polarization to be caused by the E-type antiferromagnetic states in the orthorhombic YMnO(3) thin film.     

Magnetic order and spin dynamics in ferroelectric HoMnO3

Hexagonal HoMnO3 is a frustrated antiferromagnet (T(N)=72 K) ferroelectric (T(C)=875 K) in which these two order parameters are coupled. Our neutron measurements of the spin-wave dispersion for the S=2 Mn3+ on the layered triangular lattice are well described by a two-dimensional nearest-neighbor Heisenberg exchange J=2.44 meV, and an anisotropy D that is 0.28 meV above the spin-reorientation transition at 40 K and 0.38 meV below. For H parallel c the magnetic structures and phase diagram have been determined, and reveal additional transitions below 8 K where the ferroelectrically displaced Ho3+ ions are ordered magnetically.     

Magnetic ordering in the spin-ice candidate Ho2Ru2O7

Neutron scattering measurements on the spin-ice candidate material Ho2Ru2O7 have revealed two magnetic transitions at T approximately 95 and approximately 1.4 K to long-range ordered states involving the Ru and Ho sublattices, respectively. Between these transitions, the Ho3+ moments form short-ranged ordered spin clusters. The internal field provided by the ordered S=1 Ru4+ moments disrupts the fragile spin-ice state and drives the Ho3+ moments to order. We have directly measured a slight shift in the Ho3+ crystal field levels at 95 K from the Ru ordering.     

Structure and Magnetism of Rare-Earth Ferricyanides and the Role of 4f Electrons

The Pr, Sm, Gd, Dy, and Ho ferricyanides have been prepared. These compounds were characterized structurally and magnetically. It has been shown that their magnetic properties are dominantly associated with the electronic structure of trivalent rare-earth ion. The details of the crystal structure were determined using x-ray diffraction technique by means of the Rietveld structure refinement method. Magnetic properties have been investigated by means of vibrating sample magnetometer in the magnetic fields up to 6 T and temperatures from 4.2 to 100 K.     

Unconventional magnetic correlations in DyB2C and HoB2C

Layered borocarbides RB2C (R=Dy, Ho, and Er) have been studied by powder neutron diffraction at 2-30 K. ErB2C has two-sublattice antiferromagnetic order below T(N)=16.3 K, but DyB2C and HoB2C show a coexistence of a conventional canted k=(000) ferromagnetic structure and unconventional magnetic correlations. The k=(000) phase orders at T(c)=8.5 K (DyB2C) and 7.1 K (HoB2C), but low-Q diffraction peaks from the unconventional correlations appear above T(c) with different critical temperatures for different peaks: at 8, 10.5, and 15.7 K for HoB2C. This scattering is fitted as diffraction from a Warren-type random magnetic layer lattice and may result from quadrupolar interactions between R3+ spins.     

Uncompensated antiferromagnetic structure of Ho2Ni2Pb

We have studied the magnetic structure of the orthorhombic compound Ho2Ni2Pb by means of neutron diffraction in zero field and in magnetic fields up to 4.5 T. Both powder and single-crystalline samples were used. Previous bulk measurements suggest two distinct magnetic phase transitions: one at TN = 7.0 K and the other at 4.8 K. Our neutron diffraction measurements, which were made in the range 1.5-20 K, showed that Ho2Ni2Pb has a collinear magnetic structure with unequal number of up and down Ho moments that are aligned parallel and antiparallel to the c axis. At the lowest temperatures the Ho moments are equal in size, each 8.3 B in agreement with magnetization data. The magnetic structure can be described as having a 5a ×b ×c magnetic unit cell. Below Ts = 3.0 K the structure is squared up. A smooth development of all the magnetic moment magnitudes indicates that the magnetic structure remains in principle the same over the whole temperature range, the phase transition around 4.8 K can be identified as an inflection point in the temperature dependence of one of the Ho moments. With increasing temperature there is a clear development towards a simple transverse sine-wave modulated magnetic structure that is established just below TN.     

Neutron diffraction study of Ho(Rh0.3Ir0.7)4B4

Using powder neutron diffraction techniques, we have examined the magnetic order of the pseudoternary compound Ho(Rh_0.3Ir_0.7)₄B₄ below the Néel temperature T_N=2.7K. The magnetic structure consists of stacked antiferromagnetic basal plane sheets forming a body centered tetragonal unit cell, with a sublattice magnetization corresponding to 9.6±0.6μ_B per Ho³⁺ion at 1.5 K. Magnetic intensity versus temperature measurements indicate that the transition is second order and reveal no anomalous effects when the compound becomes superconducting at T_c=1.34K.     

Magnetic splitting of valence states in ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic lanthanide metals

The magnetic splitting of Delta(2) valence states in the heavy lanthanide metals Gd, Tb, Dy, and Ho was studied in epitaxial films by angle-resolved photoemission, revealing an essentially Stoner-like temperature dependence in all cases. It scales linearly with the 4f spin moment, even in the case of the helical antiferromagnet Ho. Such a behavior can be explained by a substantial localization of the corresponding wave function in the c direction. The helical magnetic structure was confirmed for the thin Ho films by in situ resonant magnetic x-ray diffraction.     

Microscopic evidence of spin state order and spin state phase separation in layered cobaltites RBaCo2O5.5 with R=Y, Tb, Dy, and Ho

We report muon-spin relaxation measurements on the magnetic structures of RBaCo2O(5.5) with R=Y, Tb, Dy, and Ho. Three different phases, one ferrimagnetic and two antiferromagnetic, are identified below 300 K. They consist of different ordered spin state arrangements of high-, intermediate-, and low-spin Co3+ of CoO6 octahedra. Phase separation into well separated regions with different spin state order is observed in the antiferromagnetic phases. The unusual strongly anisotropic magnetoresistance and its onset at the FM-AFM phase boundary is explained.     

Die Reaktion10B(d,α)8Be im Energiebereich von 0,5 bis 2 MeV

The differential magnetic susceptibility X=X′-iX″ of HoCl₃, Ho(Y)Cl₃, and Ho(La)Cl₃ has been measured with a mutual inductance bridge with frequencies from 5.3 c/s to 5.12 kc/s at temperatures between 1.1 and 4.2 °K, and in constant magnetic fields up to 3 kOe. — In monoclinic HoCl₃ a magnetic transition has been observed atT=2.15 °K (maximum of X″). No transition occurs for 0.5 and 5% Ho³⁺ in isomorphic YCl₃. — The results for nominal concentrations of 1, 2, and 5% Ho³⁺ in hexagonal LaCl₃ indicate, that there is a considerable precipitation of monoclinic HoCl₃ during crystal growth. Relaxation measurements on Ho³⁺ in hexagonal sites are interpreted in terms of a phonon-bottleneck in the temperature region 1.1 °K≦T≦2.0⁰K with a hot-phonon equilibration time of about 0.2 μs.     

Co-existence of long- and short-range magnetic correlations in holmium-erbium superlattices

The effect of competing crystal-field anisotropies on magnetic order has been investigated in a series of Ho/Er superlattices using a combination of x-ray and neutron scattering techniques. For temperatures in the interval T_N(Er)≤T≤T_N(Ho) the Ho basal-plane order propagates coherently through the paramagnetic Er over a typical length scale of 1000 Å. At low temperatures the Ho moments retain their bulk-like helical configuration, whereas the magnetic structure in the Er blocks has both basal-plane and c-axis components. Below T_N(Er), the coherence length of the basal-plane order decreases on cooling, while the longitudinal component of the Er moments fails to order across the Ho block. It is argued that these results require an extension of current models of indirect exchange in superlattices to explicitly include the superlattice band structure.     

Optimization of Pr(0.9)Ca(0.1)MnO(3) thin films and observation of coexisting spin-glass and ferromagnetic phases at low temperature

Optimization of thin films of small bandwidth manganite, Pr(1-x)Ca(x)MnO3 (for x = 0.1), and their magnetic properties are investigated. Using different pulsed laser deposition (PLD) conditions, several films were deposited from the stoichiometric target material on SrTiO3 (001) substrate and their thorough structural and magnetic characterizations were carried out using x-ray diffraction, atomic force microscopy, x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), SQUID magnetometry and ac susceptibility measurements. A systematic investigation shows that irrespective of the growth temperature (between 550 and 750?°C), all the as-deposited films have twin boundaries and magnetic double phases. Post-annealing in partial or full oxygen pressure removes the extra phase and the twin boundaries. Zero-field-cooled magnetization data show an antiferromagnetic to paramagnetic transition at around 100 K whereas the field-cooled magnetization data exhibit a paramagnetic to ferromagnetic transition close to 120 K. However, depending on the oxygen treatments, the saturation magnetization and Curie temperature of the films change significantly. Redistribution of oxygen vacancies due to annealing treatments leading to a change in ratio of Mn3+ and Mn4+ in the films is observed from XPS measurements. Low temperature (below 100 K) dc magnetization of these films shows metamagnetic transition, high coercivity and irreversibility magnetizations, indicating the presence of a spin-glass phase at low temperature. The frequency dependent shift in spin-glass freezing temperature from ac susceptibility measurement confirms the coexistence of spin-glass and ferromagnetic phases in these samples at low temperature.     

嵌入化合物Fe0.95PS3(MV)0.11的合成与磁性能研究

利用嵌入反应合成了有机-无机嵌入化合物Fe_0.95PS₃(MV)_{0.1 1}(MV为1,1′- 二甲基-4,4′-联吡啶阳离子)，对其结构和磁性进行了研究.x射线衍射数据表明，此嵌入化 合物的晶体结构仍为单斜晶系，空间群为C2/m，晶胞参数a=0.879 nm, b=0.944 nm, c=1.07 0 nm, β=114.76°.相对于纯FePS₃, 层间距离增大0.33 nm.磁化率研究表明， 从室温降 到4.2 K 关键词： 嵌入化合物 Mssbauer谱 磁相互作用 分子磁体     

Gd3Co29-xCrx新相化合物的结构与磁性

制备出具有室温单轴磁晶各向异性的非间隙型Co基Gd3Co29-xCrx化合物(x=65和70)，x射线衍射和磁性测量表明所有单相化合物均属于单斜晶系，Nd3(Fe,Ti)29型结构和A2/m空间群.Gd3Co29-xCrx化合物的居里温度在x=65时为412 K，x=70时为359 K. Gd3Co29-xCrx化合物在x=65 时磁化强度随温度的变化曲线表明，在居里温度以下的某一温度处有一补偿点，在补偿点处求得晶格分子场系数nRT=33 T f.u./μB. 关键词： Gd3Co29-xCrx化合物 x射线衍射 磁晶各向异性     

Neutron diffraction study of the CeFeSi-type RTiGe compounds (R=Pr,Nd, Tb–Er)

Neutron diffraction experiments were carried out on polycrystalline RTiGe (R=Pr, Nd, Tb–Er) samples. These compounds crystallise with the tetragonal CeFeSi-type structure (space group P4/nmm). This structure is closely related to the ThCr₂Si₂-type and can be described as “BaAl₄ blocks” connected via R–R contacts (“W blocks”). All the compounds are antiferromagnetic. PrTiGe and NdTiGe are characterised by an easy-plane sine-modulated structure characterised by a wave vector k=0,0,q_z=0.242 and 0.334 below 62 and 128 K, respectively. Below 80 K, NdTiGe exhibits a commensurate arrangement, which consists on ferromagnetic (0 0 1) Nd layers coupled antiferromagnetically along the c direction with the sequence ++−−. This commensurate magnetic ordering also occurs in TbTiGe, DyTiGe, HoTiGe and ErTiGe below 312, 185, 124 and 36 K, respectively. In the first three compounds (R=Tb−Ho), the magnetic moment is aligned along the c-axis whereas it is localised in the basal plane in ErTiGe. In all the RTiGe compounds, the magnitude of the ordered moments at 2 K amounts nearly to the free ion magnetic moment (gJ) values for the respective R³⁺ ions.     

A Mossbauer study of the magnetic coupling in iron phosphorous trisulfides

The polycrystalline sample of layered compound FePS_3 has been investigated by using M?ssbauer spectroscopy (12K to 300K), magnetic susceptibility measurements, x-ray diffraction and FTIR spectroscopy. The antiferromagnetic order exists below T_N=120.5±1K. The M?ssbauer spectra below T_N indicate that the magnetization axis is perpendicular to the layer of FePS_3, and the divalent iron cations are in their high spin configurations. By fitting the hyperfine field parameters near the Néel temperature, we obtain information on the nature of magnetic interactions in the material. The results show that the magnetic coupling can be treated by the two-dimensional Ising model, and it can be interpreted on the basis of a crystal-field effect.     

Fragile magnetic ground state in half-doped LaSr2Mn2O7

We investigated the orbital and antiferromagnetic ordering behaviors of the half-doped bilayer manganite La(2-2x)Sr(1+2x)Mn2O7 (x ? 0.5) by using Mn L(2,3)-edge resonant soft x-ray scattering. Resonant soft x-ray scattering reveals the CE-type orbital order below T(oo) ? 220 K, which shows partial melting behavior below T(m) ? 165 K. We also found coexistence CE- and A-type antiferromagnetic orders. Both orders involve the CE-type orbital order with nearly the same orbital character and are coupled with each other. These results manifest that the ground state with the CE-type antiferromagnetic order is easily susceptible to destabilization into the A-type one even with a small fluctuation of the doping level, as suggested by the extremely narrow magnetic phase boundaries at x ? 0.5±0.005.