Journal article
First-Order Transitions and the Magnetic Phase Diagram of CeSb
Nano-Microstructures in Materials, Materials Research Division, Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, Technical University of Denmark1
Materials Research Division, Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, Technical University of Denmark2
Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, Technical University of Denmark3
The high-temperature (14-17K) low-magnetic field (0-0.8 T) region of the phase diagram of the anomalous antiferromagnet CeSb has been reinvestigated by neutron diffraction in an attempt to locate a possible tricritical point. Previous neutron diffraction studies indicated that a tricritical point might exist in the magnetic phase diagram of CeSb at 16K for a field of approximately 0.3 T.
The present study concludes that the transitions from the paramagnetic to the magnetically ordered states are of first order for fields below 0.8 T. Within the experimental accuracy no change has been observed in the first order jump of the ordered moment at Tc.
| Language: | English |
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| Year: | 1980 |
| Pages: | 1725-1733 |
| ISSN: | 17473802 and 00223719 |
| Types: | Journal article |
| DOI: | 10.1088/0022-3719/13/9/018 |
