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L. Holmes; M. Schieber

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Metamagnetism in ${Eu}_{3}$ $O_{4}$

L. Holmes^*

M. Schieber^†,‡

Division of Engineering and Applied Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

National Magnet Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts

^*Research supported by the Electronics Research Directorate of the U.S. Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories under Contract AF19(628)-3874. Work performed in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard University. Present address: Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, N.J.
^†Present address: Department of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
^‡Supported by the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

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Phys. Rev. 167, 449 – Published 10 March, 1968

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.167.449

Abstract

The magnetic properties of the metamagnet ${Eu}_{3}$ $O_{4}$ are analyzed using molecular-field theory. For the antiferromagnetic ground state, it is assumed that linear, ferromagnetic chains of spins ( ${Eu}^{2 +}$ ) are polarized along the $c$ axis of the orthorhombic unit cell, with neighboring chains antiparallel. The weakly magnetic ions ${Eu}^{3 +}$ provide an apparently inert magnetic background. Exchange constants are deduced from the paramagnetic Curie temperature $θ_{p} = 5 °$ K and the critical field $H_{c} = 2.4$ kOe. The constants for first- and second-neighbor ${Eu}^{2 +}$ interactions are $\frac{J_{1}}{k} \sim 0.3 °$ K and $\frac{J_{2}}{k} \sim - 0.02 °$ K, respectively. An anisotropy field of 7 kOe is derived from the transverse magnetic susceptibility at low temperatures. This value is also obtained from a magnetic dipolar sum. Theoretical estimates of the ordering temperature give $T_{c} \sim 5 °$ K, as observed.

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[c1] L. Holmes and M. Schieber, J. Appl. Phys. 37, 968 (1966)

[c2] M. Schieber, R. G. Gordon, and S. L. Hou, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Magnetism, Nottingham, 1964 (Institute of Physics and the Physical Society, London, 1965), p. 499

[c3] F. Hullinger and O. Vogt, Phys. Letters 21, 138 (1966)

[c4] R. C. Rau, Acta Cryst. 20, 716 (1966)

[c5] A. A. Samokhralov, V. G. Bamburov, N. V. Volkenshteyn, T. D. Zotov, A. A. Ivakin, Yu. N. Morozov, and M. I. Simonova, Fiz. Metal. i Metalloved. (USSR) 20, 308 (1965) [English transl.: Phys. Metals Metallog. 20, 138 (1965)]

[c6] F. F. Y. Wang, Phys. Status Solidi 14, 189 (1966)

[c7] H. Wickman (private communication)

[c8] J. S. Smart, Effective Field Theories of Magnetism (W. B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia, Pa., 1966)

[c9] J. H. Van Vleck, J. Chem. Phys. 5, 320 (1937), especially pp. 326-7

[c10] E. L. Boyd, Phys. Rev. 145, 174 (1966)

[c11] H. Sato, J. Phys. Chem. Solids 19, 54 (1961)

[c12] J. W. Stout and R. C. Chisholm, J. Chem. Phys. 36, 979 (1962)

[c13] L. Holmes, thesis, Harvard University, 1966 (unpublished)

[c14] M. E. Fisher, Am. J. Phys. 32, 343 (1964)

[c15] S. Van Houten, Phys. Letters 2, 215 (1962) U. Enz, J. F. Fast, S. Van Houten, and J. Smit, Phillips Res. Rept. 17, 451 (1962)

[c16] T. R. McGuire, B. E. Argyle, M. W. Shafer, and J. S. Smart, J. Appl. Phys. 34, 1345 (1963) ibid.35, 984 (1964)

[c17] F. Holtzberg, T. R. McGuire, and S. Methfessel, J. Appl. Phys. 37, 976 (1966) A. M. De Graaf and R. M. Xavier, Phys. Letters 18, 225 (1965) J. Smit, J. Appl. Phys. 37, 1455 (1966)

[c18] L. M. Corliss, J. M. Hastings, and W. Kunnmann, Phys. Rev. 160, 408 (1967)

[c19] S. Geller, R. C. Sherwood, J. P. Remeika, and G. P. Espinosa, Phys. Rev. 131, 1080 (1963)

[c20] R. C. LeCraw, J. P. Remeika, and H. Matthews, J. Appl. Phys. 36, 901 (1965)

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[c22] G. Busch, P. Junod, M. Risi, and O. Vogt, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Semiconductors, Exeter, 1962 (Institute of Physics and Physical Society, London, 1962), p. 727

[c23] G. Busch, P. Junod, R. G. Morris, J. Muheim, and W. Statius, Phys. Letters 11, 9 (1964)

[c24] T. R. McGuire (private communication)

[c25] G. Will, S. J. Pickhart, H. A. Alperin, and R. Nathans, J. Phys. Chem. Solids 24, 1679 (1963)

[c26] W. P. Wolf and J. H. Van Vleck, Phys. Rev. 118, 1490 (1960)

[c27] A. Frank, Phys. Rev. 48, 765 (1935) M. Schieber and L. Holmes, J. Appl. Phys. 36, 1159 (1965)

[c28] R. M. Bozorth and J. H. Van Vleck, Phys. Rev. 118, 1493 (1960)

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