2020/08/09 by Suleyman Gundogdu, J. P. Clancy, Gundogdu, Suleyman +15
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Boron and Carbon Nanomaterials Research #FOS: Physical sciences #Rare-earth and actinide compounds #Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el) #Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con) #Superconductivity in MgB2 and Alloys
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2008.03743
openalex publication_date 2020/08/09 · openalex created_date 2020/08/13 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The rare earth magnetic order in pure and doped Er(1-x)HoxNi2B2C (x~=~0,~0.25,~0.50,~0.75,~1) single crystal samples was investigated using magnetization and neutron diffraction measurements. Superconducting quaternary borocarbides, RNi2B2C where R~=~Er, Ho , are both magnetic intermetallic superconductors with the transition temperatures ∼ 10 K. These compounds also develop magnetic order in the vicinity of this temperature. Depending on the rare earth composition the coupling between superconductivity and magnetism creates several phases, ranging from a reentrant superconductor with a mixture of commensurate and incommensurate antiferromagnetism to a total incommensurate antiferromagnetic spin modulation with a weak ferromagnetic state. All of these phases coexist with superconductivity. RKKY magnetic interactions are used to describe the magnetic orders in the pure compounds. However, the doping of Ho on Er (or Er on Ho) sites which have two strong magnetic moments with two different easy directions creates new and complicated magnetic modulations with possible local disorder effects. One fascinating effect is the development of an induced magnetic state resembling the pure and doped R2CuO4, R~=~Nd and Pr.