Successive Magnetic Phase Transitions of Component Orderings in DyB4

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan Volume 80 Issue 7 Page 074701-1-074701-9 published_at 2011
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Successive Magnetic Phase Transitions of Component Orderings in DyB4
Creator
Okuyama Daisuke
Mouri Takuya
Murakami Youichi
Source Title
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan
Volume 80
Issue 7
Start Page 074701-1
End Page 074701-9
Abstract
The successive magnetic phase transitions in DyB4 have been studied in detail by microscopic measurements using resonant X-ray diffraction and neutron scattering. It is shown that the ab-plane component of the magnetic moment is short-range-ordered in the intermediate phase where the c-axis component is long-range-ordered. It is estimated that this short-range order is dynamically fluctuating with a time scale between ~ 10−8 to ~ 10−11s. Crystal field excitation has also been investigated by inelastic neutron scattering. To qualitatively understand the phase-transition phenomenon, we have studied a simple two-sublattice model with an antiferromagnetic interaction by mean-field calculation. The calculation, though without a quadrupolar interaction, successfully explains the occurrence of double phase transition, magnetic specific heat and entropy, magnetic susceptibility, and the huge elastic softening in the intermediate phase. The general success of the mean-field calculation, except for the shortrange order, suggests that there is little effect of geometrical frustration on the macroscopic properties at zero magnetic field.
Keywords
DyB4
successive magnetic transitions
component ordering
geometrical frustration
Descriptions
This work was supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and also by the 21st century COE program of Tohoku University.
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Physics [ 420 ]
Language
eng
Resource Type journal article
Publisher
The Physical Society of Japan
一般社団法人日本物理学会
Date of Issued 2011
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Copyright (c) 2011 一般社団法人日本物理学会
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[ISSN] 0031-9015
[NCID] AA00704814
[DOI] 10.1143/JPSJ.80.074701
[DOI] http://dx.doi.org/10.1143/JPSJ.80.074701