Magnetic properties of incommensurate antiferromagnet β-KMnCl3

Magnetic properties of orthorhombic incommensurate antiferromagnet β-KMnCl₃ have been studied as a function of temperature down to 0,5K and in magnetic fields up to 70 k0e. The exchange parameters were estimated with molecular-field theory. Magnetic field behaviour of β-KMnCl₃ is in accordance with change of magnetic structure from helical into fan structure and then into induced ferromagnetic state. The Neel temperature decreases with increase magnetic field overage 0,05K on 1 k0e.