Phase transition from spin glass to long-range magnetic order in semiconductor spinels CuCr1.5+0.5x Sb0.5?0.5x S4 (x=0.34 and 0.4)

Reentrant behavior to a spin glass state is discovered in the solid solution system CuCr_{1.5+0.5x Sb x0.5−0.5 x S 4} with x=0.34 and 0.4. The spin-glass transition temperature _{T f} determined from the kink in the temperature dependence of the initial susceptibility in an alternating magnetic field depends on the measurement frequency ω. It is shown that the frequency dependence _{T f} (ω) is a power-law function 1/ω=(1/ω₀)T _f /( _{T f} − _T *)]^zv with _zv =7.7 for both compositions. For the composition with _x =0.34 a maximum is observed near _T * in the temperature dependence of the resistivity. These facts indicate that the transition from the spin glass to long-range magnetic order is a phase transition. Pis’ma Zh. éksp. Teor. Fiz. 64, No. 4, 265–269 (25 August 1996)