Magnetostriction of Hexagonal HoMnO3 and YMnO3 Single Crystals

Autor: K. Yu. Terent’ev, N. S. Pavlovskii, S. V. Semenov, A. A. Dubrovskii, S. E. Nikitin, K. A. Shaikhutdinov
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Physics of the Solid State. 60:520-526
ISSN: 1090-6460
1063-7834
DOI: 10.1134/s1063783418030228
Popis: We report on the magnetostriction of hexagonal HoMnO3 and YMnO3 single crystals in a wide range of applied magnetic fields (up to H = 14 T) at all possible combinations of the mutual orientations of magnetic field H and magnetostriction ΔL/L. The measured ΔL/L(H, T) data agree well with the magnetic phase diagram of the HoMnO3 single crystal reported previously by other authors. It is shown that the nonmonotonic behavior of magnetostriction of the HoMnO3 crystal is caused by the Ho3+ ion; the magnetic moment of the Mn3+ ion parallel to the hexagonal crystal axis. The anomalies established from the magnetostriction measurements of HoMnO3 are consistent with the phase diagram of these compounds. For the isostructural YMnO3 single crystal with a nonmagnetic rare-earth ion, the ΔL/L(H, T) dependences are described well by a conventional quadratic law in a wide temperature range (4–100 K). In addition, the magnetostriction effect is qualitatively estimated with regard to the effect of the crystal electric field on the holmium ion.
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