Published May 1, 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

Pressure effect on electrical resistivity of Y1-xGdxCo2

  • 1. Faculty of Science, University of the Ryukyus, Nishihara, Okinawa 903-0213 (Japan)
  • 2. Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8581 (Japan)
  • 3. A. F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg 194021 (Russian Federation)

Description

Electrical resistivity of Y1-xGdxCo2 alloy system has been measured at temperatures from 2 to 300K in magnetic field up to 15T and under pressure up to 10GPa. The compounds with the composition near to phase boundary between paramagnetic and ferromagnetic ground state (xc∼0.12) show strong enhancement of electrical resistivity at low temperatures. Large positive magnetoresistance was observed in ferromagnetic alloys in composition range 0.15<x<0.3. The anomalous magnetoresistance as well as the composition dependence of the low-temperature resistivity were explained by an interplay of metamagnetic instability of Co 3d itinerant electrons and structural disorder within rare-earth sublattice. The pressure effect on electrical resistivity for Y1-xGdxCo2 at low temperatures is in agreement with the variation of magnetoresistance with the composition

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physb.2006.01.001;
PII
S0921-4526(06)00070-6;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physica. B, Condensed Matter
Journal Volume
378-380
Journal Page Range
p. 169-170
ISSN
0921-4526
CODEN
PHYBE3

Conference

Title
International conference on strongly correlated electron systems
Acronym
SCES 2005
Dates
26-30 Jul 2005
Place
Vienna (Austria)

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