Evolution of magnetic phase transition in intermetallic borocarbide Pr1− xDyxCo2B2C

M El Massalami, EF Chagas, RE Rapp - Journal of magnetism and …, 2001 - Elsevier
M El Massalami, EF Chagas, RE Rapp
Journal of magnetism and magnetic materials, 2001Elsevier
The recently reported magnetic phase diagram (TN versus de Gennes factor deG) of the
body-centered tetragonal RCo2B2C series indicates that compounds with R= Pr orders at a
higher temperature (TN≈ 10.2 K) than that of the isomorphs R= Nd (TN= 3.0 K), Er (TN= 4.0
K), Sm (TN= 6.0 K), Ho (TN= 5.4 K), Dy (TN= 7.8 K)(Rapp, El Massalami, Phys. Rev. B 60
(1999) 3355; El Massalami et al., Phys. Rev. B, submitted). Since the deG of the latter
compounds are higher than that of Pr compound, then such non-monotonic evolution of TN …
The recently reported magnetic phase diagram (TN versus de Gennes factor deG) of the body-centered tetragonal RCo2B2C series indicates that compounds with R=Pr orders at a higher temperature (TN≈10.2K) than that of the isomorphs R=Nd (TN=3.0K), Er (TN=4.0 K), Sm (TN=6.0K), Ho (TN=5.4K), Dy (TN=7.8K) (Rapp, El Massalami, Phys. Rev. B 60 (1999) 3355; El Massalami et al., Phys. Rev. B, submitted). Since the deG of the latter compounds are higher than that of Pr compound, then such non-monotonic evolution of TN with deG deserves further investigations. In that direction, we synthesized and investigated the magnetic phase diagram of the series Pr1−xDyxCo2B2C (x=0.0, 0.09, 0.13, 0.345, 0.797, 1.0) wherein deG spans the interval from 0.8 (x=0) to 7.0819 (x=1). The obtained unit-cell parameters are in excellent agreement with the Vegard's law, demonstrating that the Pr and Dy atoms substitute each other randomly. Magnetic measurements reveal that the saturated magnetic moment (at 2K and 90kOe) increases linearly with x (∂μ/∂x≈4.7(5)μB). Furthermore, for x<0.17, TN(x) decreases sharply with x (∂TN/∂x≈−36(1) K), while for x⩾ 0.17, TN(x) increases as ∂TN/∂x≈5.8(1) K. The overall evolution of TN with deG reproduces satisfactorily the behavior of the above cited RCo2B2C compounds. These results will be discussed in terms of the hybridization between the 4f and the conduction electrons.
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