Not a Simple Ferro-quadrupole Order in DyB6

We performed detailed measurements of the thermal and magnetic properties in the ferroquadrupole (FQ) ordered state of DyB6, which exhibits the antiferromagnetic (AFM) order at TN = 26 K and the O02[111]-type FQ order at TQ = 32 K. We also performed the mean-field calculation for the two-sublattice...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of the Physical Society of Japan 2019-05, Vol.88 (5)
Hauptverfasser: Sera, Masafumi, Yonemura, Takumi, Itamochi, Ken, Matsumura, Takeshi, Hiroi, Masahiko, Takahashi, Kohki
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Zusammenfassung:We performed detailed measurements of the thermal and magnetic properties in the ferroquadrupole (FQ) ordered state of DyB6, which exhibits the antiferromagnetic (AFM) order at TN = 26 K and the O02[111]-type FQ order at TQ = 32 K. We also performed the mean-field calculation for the two-sublattice model in which the crystalline electric field (CEF) effect and AFM and FQ interactions are taken into account, focusing on the FQ ordered state. We could estimate the CEF level scheme to reproduce the temperature dependence of the magnetic susceptibility and specific heat. We could also reproduce the temperature dependence of the specific heat in the ordered state by the calculation quite well. However, the thermal and magnetic properties in magnetic fields, i.e., a decrease in the magnetic susceptibility below TQ, a nearly temperature-independent behavior of the electrical resistivity between TN and TQ, the magnetic phase diagram for H ∥ [111] and so forth could not be reproduced by the calculation where the dependence of the domain distribution on the magnetic field direction is taken into account. By comparing the experimental and calculated results, we clarify what are the problems in the FQ ordered state in DyB6.
ISSN:0031-9015
1347-4073
DOI:10.7566/JPSJ.88.054703