Whirling spin order in the quasicrystal approximant

TJ Sato, A Ishikawa, A Sakurai, M Hattori, M Avdeev… - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
A neutron powder diffraction experiment has been performed on the quasicrystal
approximant Au 72 Al 14 Tb 14, a body-centered-cubic crystal of icosahedral spin clusters …

Tailoring magnetic behavior in the Tb-Au-Si quasicrystal approximant system

GH Gebresenbut, MS Andersson, P Nordblad… - Inorganic …, 2016 - ACS Publications
A novel synthesis method,“arc-melting-self-flux”, has been developed and a series of five
Tsai-type 1/1 approximant crystals in the Tb-Au-Si system have been synthesized. The …

Competition between spin-glass and antiferromagnetic states in Tsai-type 1/1 and 2/1 quasicrystal approximants

F Labib, H Takakura, A Ishikawa, R Tamura - Physical Review Materials, 2022 - APS
Systematic research was performed to investigate magnetic properties of the Tsai-type Ga-
Pd-RE (RE= Gd, Tb, Dy, and Ho) systems, where both 1/1 and 2/1 quasicrystal approximants …

Influence of Ir additions and icosahedral short range order (ISRO) on nucleation and growth kinetics in Au-20.5 Wt Pct Cu-4.5 Wt PctAg alloy

J Zollinger, B Rouat, J Guyon, SK Pillai… - … Materials Transactions A, 2019 - Springer
Based on detailed EBSD analyses, Kurtuldu et al.(Acta Mater. 70: 240–248, 2014) have
explained the grain refinement of Au-12.5 wt pctCu-12.5 wt pctAg (yellow gold) by the …

Magnetic properties of icosahedral quasicrystals and their cubic approximants in the Cd–Mg–RE (RE= Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, and Tm) systems

F Labib, D Okuyama, N Fujita, T Yamada… - Journal of Physics …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
A systematic investigation has been performed to elucidate effects of rare earth type and
structural complexity on magnetic properties of icosahedral quasicrystal (iQC) and their …

First observation of heavy fermion behavior in Ce-based icosahedral approximant

K Imura, K Nobe, K Deguchi, M Matsunami… - Journal of the Physical …, 2017 - journals.jps.jp
Since the discovery of unconventional quantum criticality in the Au–Al–Yb quasicrystal and
pressure-induced quantum criticality in its approximant, quasicrystals and approximants with …

Observation of systematic variation in Yb ion valence as a function of interatomic spacing in icosahedral approximant crystals

M Hayashi, K Deguchi, S Matsukawa… - Journal of the Physical …, 2017 - journals.jps.jp
We discovered two alloy systems, Pd–Ga–Yb and Pd–Ge–Yb, that belong to the Tsai-type
1/1 approximant to the Au–Al–Yb quasicrystal exhibiting the unusual quantum criticality and …

Thermal expansion of a Au− Al− Yb intermediate valence quasicrystal

T Watanuki, S Kashimoto, T Ishimasa… - Solid State …, 2015 - Elsevier
The thermal expansion of a Au− Al− Yb intermediate-valence quasicrystal has been studied.
X-ray diffraction measurements showed zero thermal expansion below 50 K. By comparison …

[HTML][HTML] Pressure effects on Ce-based Kondo approximant crystal

T Sawano, Y Shinagawa, T Shiino, K Imura, K Deguchi… - AIP Advances, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
The Ag–In–Ce alloy is an approximant crystal to a Tsai-type quasicrystal and exhibits heavy-
fermion (Kondo) physics. This new type of Kondo material exhibits spin-glass ordering …

Quantum critical behavior in magnetic quasicrystals and approximant crystals

NK Sato, S Matsukawa, K Nobe, K Imura… - Journal of Physics …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The electronic states of quasicrystals are believed to be critical, neither extended nor
localized. To experimentally establish such the critical state remains a formidable challenge …