Specific-heat anomaly of metamagnetism on PrFe4P12 and UCoAl

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作者
Matsuda, TD
Okada, H
Sugawara, H
Aoki, Y
Sato, H
Andreev, AV
Shiokawa, Y
Sechovsky, V
Honma, T
Yamamoto, E
Onuki, Y
机构
[1] Tokyo Metropolitan Univ, Dept Phys, Hachioji, Tokyo 1920397, Japan
[2] Acad Sci Czech Republ, Inst Phys, CZ-18040 Prague 8, Czech Republic
[3] Tohoku Univ, Inst Mat Res, Aoba Ku, Sendai, Miyagi 9808577, Japan
[4] Charles Univ, Inst Met Phys, CR-12116 Prague 2, Czech Republic
[5] Japan Atom Energy Res Inst, Adv Sci Res Ctr, Tokai, Ibaraki 3191195, Japan
[6] Osaka Univ, Fac Sci, Osaka 5600043, Japan
来源
PHYSICA B | 2000年 / 281卷
关键词
specific heat; metamagnetism; filled skutterudite;
D O I
10.1016/S0921-4526(99)01003-0
中图分类号
O469 [凝聚态物理学];
学科分类号
070205 ;
摘要
The field dependence of specific hear has been measured at low temperatures in order to study two different types of f-electron metamagnetic systems. The antiferromagnet PrFe4P12 with Neel temperature of 6.4 K shows a sharp peak structure in CIT at the spin flip metamagnetic transition. In the high field state, the magnetic contribution C-m/T shows an anomalous huge value similar to 1.4 J/K-2 mol. UCoAl shows the metamagnetic transition from paramagnetic ground state at similar to 1 T. where C/T at 0.5 K shows an apparent decrease reflecting a change of the density of states. In the low-field state. ferromagnetic spin-fluctuation dominates in an anomalous temperature dependence of C. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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页数:3
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