SPECIFIC-HEAT AND METAMAGNETIC PROCESS IN A MODULATED COMPOUND - PRNI2SI2

被引:30
作者
BLANCO, JA [1 ]
GIGNOUX, D [1 ]
SCHMITT, D [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV CANTABRIA, FAC CIENCIAS, E-39005 SANTANDER, SPAIN
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PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 1992年 / 45卷 / 05期
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10.1103/PhysRevB.45.2529
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T [工业技术];
学科分类号
08 ;
摘要
Low-temperature specific-heat and magnetization measurements have been performed on the tetragonal PrNi2Si2 compound. This compound orders at T(N) = 20 K in a sine-wave-modulated magnetic structure which remains stable down to 0 K owing to the existence of a nonmagnetic singlet as the crystal-field ground state. A self-consistent periodic-field model including the crystal-field effects accounts quantitatively very well for the observed properties in the modulated phase.
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页码:2529 / 2532
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