1. Magnetic field-induced narrow first-order and metamagnetic phase transitions of Nd5Ge3
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S. Shanmukharao Samatham, Venkateswara Yenugonda, Gowrinaidu Babbadi, Muralikrishna Patwari, Arjun K. Pathak, P. Manuel, D. Khalyavin, Stephen Cottrell, A. D. Hillier, and K. G. Suresh
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Physics ,QC1-999 - Abstract
We report on the magnetic behaviour of Nd5Ge3 by investigating through magnetization, neutron diffraction and muon spin relaxation measurements. Temperature dependent-magnetization, muon depolarization rate (λ), initial asymmetry (A0) and the stretched exponent (β) show a clear anomaly at the Néel temperature TN ∼ 54 K. However, the short-range correlated ferromagnetic interactions below TN are inferred from the diffuse scattering mechanism as revealed by zero-field neutron diffraction data. Narrow first order phase transition is due to the competing interaction of a high temperature weak-antiferromagnetic and low temperature glassy states. Magnetic field-induced reentrant spin glass state from a magnetic glass state is observed, before it transforms to a ferromagnetic state.
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- 2024
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