| Issue |
EPL
Volume 82, Number 4, May 2008
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|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 47012 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/82/47012 | |
| Published online | 16 May 2008 | |
Possible 2
-order magnetic phase transition in the Gd
Yx system
Department of Physics, Moscow State University - Moscow 119991, Russia
Corresponding author: andr@lt.phys.msu.ru
Received:
22
November
2007
Accepted:
31
March
2008
The magnetic phase transition “helical antiferromagnet-ferromagnet” in the Gd0.66Y0.34 and Gd0.65Y0.35 samples was examined by means of the specific heat, resistivity and magnetic susceptibility vs. temperature. The characteristic anomaly on the temperature dependence of the specific heat suggests that this phase transition in both the samples is not a second-order phase transition as might be expected, but a so-called second-and-a-half
order phase transition. The phenomenon is due to the change in the Fermi surface topology with temperature that is also responsible for the change in the magnetic structure.
PACS: 75.25.+z – Spin arrangements in magnetically ordered materials (including neutron and spin-polarized electron studies, synchrotron-source, X-ray scattering, etc.) / 75.30.Kz – Magnetic phase boundaries (including magnetic transitions, metamagnetism, etc.) / 71.18.+y – Fermi surface: calculations and measurements: effective mass, g factor
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