Low temperature magnetism in the rare-earth perovskite GdScO3*

Autor: Liusuo Wu, Lei Zhang, Ji-Ning Tang, Zong-Mei Song, Nan Zhao, Xin Tong, Jieming Sheng, Shanmin Wang, Pei-Qian Yuan, Xu-Cai Kan, Han Ge, Mingliang Tian, Yuan-Yin Yao
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Chinese Physics B. 29:057503
ISSN: 1674-1056
DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/ab8200
Popis: The magnetic phase diagram of rare-earth perovskite compound, GdScO3, has been investigated by magnetization and heat capacity. The system undergoes an antiferromagnetic phase transition at T N = 2.6 K, with an easy axis of magnetization along the a axis. The magnetization measurements show that it exists a spin-flop transition around 0.3 T for the applied field along the a axis. The critical magnetic field for the antiferromagnetic-to-paramagnetic transition is near 3.2 T when temperature approaches zero. By scaling susceptibilities, we presume this point (B = 3.2 T, T = 0 K) might be a field-induced quantum critical point and the magnetic critical fluctuations can even be felt above T N.
Databáze: OpenAIRE